We don’t know where you’ll go from here, but we know how to get you there.
Explore, discover and find your fascination in the College of Arts and Sciences, an inclusive community that pushes disciplinary boundaries to meet some of the most challenging problems of our society.
Here, you’ll receive an affordable education that does not compromise on quality. You’ll learn from some of the world’s most respected faculty and researchers who will guide and challenge you to reach your full potential. You’ll gain the experience — through global education, service learning and internship opportunities — that you need to transform yourself and the world.
You'll find your fascination
Kelly Schroeder
Speech and Hearing Science; Political Science
“I am fascinated in healthcare accessibility. Communication services are often under-covered by insurance agencies, despite the significant impact therapy and rehabilitation can make on individual's quality of life.”
Luke Fannin
Zoology; Anthropology
“When you’re out in the field … you become part of the ecosystem, which also brings a responsibility to protect and study it,” Fannin said. "It's fascinating."
Ose Arheghan
Sexuality Studies; Political Science
"One of the things that fascinates me about Ohio State is all of the opportunities I have to explore and continue my advocacy for the LGBTQ+ community both in my academics and in extracurriculars."
Madalynn Conkle
English Literature; Economics
"I’m fascinated by economic empowerment. As part of Moneythink OSU, a student-led service organization, each week I mentor local high school students about financial literacy and post-secondary opportunities.”
Armond Wimberly
Music Education
"I consider myself to be a musical activist. Musicians have this unique and fascinating ability to reach out, to transcend barriers or boundaries or divides within different groups of people."
Molly Hunt
Earth Sciences
“I am fascinated by the geological world around me, specifically paleontology. Ohio State has allowed me to nurture my curious mind and then share my knowledge with youth through authoring ‘Geology: Can you Dig it?’ and teaching informal lessons to middle schoolers."
You'll find your fascination
Kelly Schroeder
Speech and Hearing Science; Political Science
“I am fascinated in healthcare accessibility. Communication services are often under-covered by insurance agencies, despite the significant impact therapy and rehabilitation can make on individual's quality of life.”
Luke Fannin
Zoology; Anthropology
“When you’re out in the field … you become part of the ecosystem, which also brings a responsibility to protect and study it,” Fannin said. "It's fascinating."
Ose Arheghan
Sexuality Studies; Political Science
"One of the things that fascinates me about Ohio State is all of the opportunities I have to explore and continue my advocacy for the LGBTQ+ community both in my academics and in extracurriculars."
Madalynn Conkle
English Literature; Economics
"I’m fascinated by economic empowerment. As part of Moneythink OSU, a student-led service organization, each week I mentor local high school students about financial literacy and post-secondary opportunities.”
Armond Wimberly
Music Education
"I consider myself to be a musical activist. Musicians have this unique and fascinating ability to reach out, to transcend barriers or boundaries or divides within different groups of people."
Molly Hunt
Earth Sciences
“I am fascinated by the geological world around me, specifically paleontology. Ohio State has allowed me to nurture my curious mind and then share my knowledge with youth through authoring ‘Geology: Can you Dig it?’ and teaching informal lessons to middle schoolers."
You'll learn from the best
Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira
Associate Professor, Sociology and Criminology
An avid supporter of undergraduate research, Nyseth Nzitatira teaches classes on conflict, global crime and terrorism in addition to serving as the director of Ohio State's genocide-focused study abroad program in Rwanda.
Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Associate Professor, History
Jeffries' field school guided 10 undergraduate students through a field school titled “Defining the Color Line: Race, Democracy and the Enslaved Community at James Madison’s Montpelier,” shedding light on history of slavery and its modern manifestations.
Kyoung Lee Swearingen
Assistant Professor, Design
Swearingen worked in the film industry for over 10 years as a technical director of lighting at Pixar and DNA Productions before returning to Ohio State to pursue her passion for teaching.
Ranthony Edmonds
Postdoc Scholar, Mathematics
Edmonds and colleague John Johnson created a class exploring diversity and inclusion in mathematical communities called "Intersections of Mathematics and Society: Hidden Figures." The course includes a mentorship component that matches students with professionals from underrepresented backgrounds working at organizations around Columbus.
Laura Lopez
Assistant Professor, Astronomy
After serving as a NASA Hubble Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Lopez joined the Ohio State faculty to pursue teaching and research focused on the birth and death of massive stars and how these processes affect the surrounding interstellar medium.
Isaac Weiner
Associate Professor, Comparative Studies
As co-director of the American Religious Sounds Project, Weiner leads a collaborative, multidisciplinary team comprised of researchers from Ohio State and Michigan State in documenting and interpreting the diversity of American religious life.
You'll learn from the best
Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira
Associate Professor, Sociology and Criminology
An avid supporter of undergraduate research, Nyseth Nzitatira teaches classes on conflict, global crime and terrorism in addition to serving as the director of Ohio State's genocide-focused study abroad program in Rwanda.
Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Associate Professor, History
Jeffries' field school guided 10 undergraduate students through a field school titled “Defining the Color Line: Race, Democracy and the Enslaved Community at James Madison’s Montpelier,” shedding light on history of slavery and its modern manifestations.
Kyoung Lee Swearingen
Assistant Professor, Design
Swearingen worked in the film industry for over 10 years as a technical director of lighting at Pixar and DNA Productions before returning to Ohio State to pursue her passion for teaching.
Ranthony Edmonds
Postdoc Scholar, Mathematics
Edmonds and colleague John Johnson created a class exploring diversity and inclusion in mathematical communities called "Intersections of Mathematics and Society: Hidden Figures." The course includes a mentorship component that matches students with professionals from underrepresented backgrounds working at organizations around Columbus.
Laura Lopez
Assistant Professor, Astronomy
After serving as a NASA Hubble Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Lopez joined the Ohio State faculty to pursue teaching and research focused on the birth and death of massive stars and how these processes affect the surrounding interstellar medium.
Isaac Weiner
Associate Professor, Comparative Studies
As co-director of the American Religious Sounds Project, Weiner leads a collaborative, multidisciplinary team comprised of researchers from Ohio State and Michigan State in documenting and interpreting the diversity of American religious life.
You'll work at the intersection of disciplines
The Departments of Philosophy, Political Science and Economics have teamed up, along with the Center for Ethics and Human Values and Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability, to offer a bachelor of arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), which will train students to think across traditional boundaries. The PPE major includes training in all three core disciplines, enabling students to study the forces and institutions that shape the modern world from more than one perspective.
Mimi Lamantia '16 combined her interests in dance and medicine for her research program, Argentine Tango for Cancer Survivors, which earned funding as a part of the Pelotonia Fellowship.
She had an able guide and mentor in Lise Worthen-Chaudhari, a former dancer and research scientist, who served as associate director of the Human Motion Analysis and Recovery Laboratory within Dodd Hall at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Worthen-Chaudhari's lab was the perfect place for Lamantia to cultivate her ideas about dance and the ways it could help people with movement challenges.
Associate professor of microbiology Jesse Kwiek and associate professor of history Thomas McDow co-teach HIV: From Microbiology to Macrohistory. The course, which is cross-listed between history and microbiology, examines HIV through an interdisciplinary lens, studying its global, historical expansion, as well as its evolution at the molecular level.
Drawing from multiple arenas of expertise and examining a topic through various contexts isn’t just a viable approach to learning about HIV. The course helps students realize the benefits of approaching other fields with a broader mindset.
Motomu Ibakari, associate professor of Earth sciences and environmental health, was present in Japan during the 2011 earthquake that shook the country and sent a devastating tsunami that caused nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Upon realizing how one major incident changed the course of so many lives, Ibaraki decided to fuse the disciplines of public health and Earth sciences into one global education course, titled "Field Experience in Global Public Health: Japan."
Art and Technology is an interdisciplinary area of study in the Department of Art focused on the creative use, misuse and investigation of technology through art making. Courses are interdisciplinary in nature and combine research techniques and inspiration from the arts and sciences. Graduate and undergraduate students in computer information science, design, mechanical and aerospace engineering, biosciences, humanities, art, studio art and film studies have all engaged in courses on this topic in the past.
Racial health disparities have for years been a major issue for Dr. Quinn Capers, a cardiologist at the Wexner Medical Center and associate dean for admissions in the College of Medicine. After earning his medical degree from Ohio State in 1991, Capers was a resident trainee at an academic medical center in Atlanta when he saw two people — a black man and a white man who both came in suffering heart attacks — receive vastly different treatment.
That disconcerting experience fueled Capers’ desire to raise awareness of racial health disparities, and he co-taught an undergraduate course he created around the topic, AFAMAST 4326: Race and Medicine.
When artists, scientists and scholars collaborate to tackle some of our most pressing challenges, the creative spark is undeniable. For the Collaboration for Humane Technologies, a cross-disciplinary network of some of the most innovative thinkers in their fields, it is that creative spark that makes new, inspiring ideas for a better future possible.
Working in tandem, these Humane Technology partners join a growing movement in the technology industries toward putting human concerns at the forefront of innovation. Research topics include robotics for assisted living; simulations to improve empathy in dementia care; games for well-being; stress reduction through mindfulness in virtual reality; data humanism and health insurance in artificially intelligent futures; and more.
You'll experience campus in new and exciting ways
You'll get the support you need to succeed
Throughout their education in the College of Arts and Sciences, every student goes on their own unique journey, discovering new passions, gaining new experiences and growing inside and outside of the classroom. Our academic advisors support students at every step of the way, helping ensure each student finds and succeeds in the right path for themself.