College of Arts and Sciences

Dean - Mark Zoran, PhD

Senior Executive Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs - Cynthia Werner, PhD

Executive Associate Dean - Simon North, PhD

Associate Dean, Strategic Research Initiatives - Sarbajit Banerjee, PhD

Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs - Vacant

Associate Dean for Faculty Success - Jennifer Whitfield, PhD

Senior Associate Dean for Sponsored Research and Awards - Ping Yang, PhD

Associate Dean for Graduate Studies - Adam R. Seipp, PhD

Associate Dean for Infrastructure - Darren DePoy, PhD

Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education - Christian Brannstrom, PhD

Associate Dean for Student Success - Leroy Dorsey, PhD

Associate Dean for Academic Initiatives - Wayne Versaw, PhD

Associate Dean for Assessment and Curricular Matters - Terri Pantuso, PhD

Assistant Dean for Finance - Kristine Brisco

Assistant Dean for Alumni and Donor Relations - Dedra Nevill

Chief Administrative Officer - Cheryl Hanks 

General Statement

The 18 departments and 130 academic programs in the College of Arts and Sciences offers students the opportunity to study an extraordinarily wide range of subjects across the natural sciences, humanities, mathematics, social sciences, languages, and life sciences. The vast majority of the teaching for the Texas A&M Core Curriculum takes place in Arts and Sciences, which is truly the academic heart of the university. 

In the College of Arts and Sciences you will have the opportunity to study with a distinguished faculty, including a Nobel Prize-winner, many recipients of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies as well as multiple members of the National Academy of Sciences. Our faculty are highly successful in securing external research funding and students will benefit from an extraordinary array of research infrastructure, ranging from the Cyclotron Institute to the Texas Research Data Center, a collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau. 

The degrees offered in the College of Arts and Sciences include BA, BS, MA, MS, and PhD, in addition to a wide range of minors and certificates, both graduate and undergraduate. 

Arts General Degree Requirements

Anthropology, Classics, Communication, Economics, English, History, International Studies, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Spanish, Telecommunication Media Studies, Women's and Gender Studies

Sciences General Degree Requirements

Applied Mathematical Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Microbiology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Physics, Statistics, Zoology