Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences

From the Dean

Arts and Sciences is the largest college on campus with the greatest academic diversity. The life sciences, social sciences, humanities, math, and computer sciences are all housed in the college. Our faculty ground their teaching and mentoring in their own areas of research ranging from vaccine development to incarceration studies to international politics. Whether majoring in biology or chemistry, political science or psychology, history or English, computational mathematics or data science, Arts and Sciences students explore fundamental questions about human culture: how societies function, how the natural world operates, and how meaning is made through languages, including programming language.

Arts and Sciences also plays a central role in Marquette’s Core Curriculum ensuring that all students, regardless of their college affiliation, experience the disciplinary depth and interdisciplinary innovation required to move forward into successful lives and careers.

The college of Arts and Sciences takes pride in sharing Marquette’s Jesuit mission to emphasize students’ formation as whole people--intellectually, morally, spiritually, and physically. Our courses integrate questions of science, ethics, faith, and social responsibility in ways that link academic work to real-world issues. At Marquette, an Arts and Sciences education provides not just a path to knowledge or a college degree: it provides a strong, multi-disciplinary foundation for leadership, innovation, curiosity, and creativity that foster meaningful contributions to the world.

Come join us! We want to meet and learn about and with you!

Heather Hathaway, Ph.D.
Acting Dean, Klingler College of Arts and Sciences

College Mission Statement

As the heart and soul of Marquette University, the College of Arts and Sciences explores and advances understandings of human meaning and value, the structures and dynamics of human societies, and the composition and function of the natural world.

College Vision Statement

The College aspires to recruit and retain outstanding students and faculty and to equip them to accomplish significant research and scholarship, transformative teaching and learning, and committed and compassionate leadership in their professional fields and larger communities. In this way, we seek the serious intellectual engagement of faith and reason, and the education of the whole person – the rigorous, holistic exploration of the intellectual, moral and spiritual dimension of human life.

Diversity and Inclusion Statement

As the heart and soul of Marquette University and in the pursuit of social justice, the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences values the diversity of all people in regard to their race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexuality, religious tradition, socioeconomic status, ability, age, language, and nationality. As a college we are committed to the recruitment and retention of students, staff and faculty from diverse backgrounds by creating and sustaining an environment that is welcoming, supportive and inclusive. Members of the college demonstrate our active commitment to diversity in teaching, advising, research and all other college activities that engage issues of import to local, national, and global communities. We promote diversity through interdisciplinary work that supports a culture of learning, social justice, and respect for human dignity. We encourage action based on these ideals. This commitment contributes to the promotion of excellence and the development of future leaders dedicated to the service of others.