Dr. Rico Chapman, Professor and Dean
Dr. RaShell Smith-Spears, Professor and Associate Dean
Dollye M. E. Robinson Building
Box 18019
Telephone: (601) 979-7036
Fax: (601) 203-5116
E-mail: liberal.arts@jsums.edu 

School of Communications

• English, Foreign Languages, and Speech Communication
• Journalism and Media Studies 

School of Fine and Performing Arts 

• Music 

School of Social and Behavioral Sciences

• Criminal Justice and Sociology
• History and Philosophy
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Public Policy and Administration

The principal objective of the College is to provide diverse opportunities for meaningful and quality liberal education. The College serves both graduate and undergraduate students. It offers a wide variety of majors in the academic disciplines, core courses, as well as balanced programs of study in related disciplines. The College of Liberal Arts prepares students for many kinds of professions and graduate studies; it cooperates with the College of Education and Human Development in offering joint professional and pre-professional studies for teaching majors.

While the long-range goal is that of producing a well- rounded individual--intellectually, spiritually, physically, emotionally, and aesthetically, the College seeks to accomplish this primarily by placing emphasis on intellectual achievement.  Regardless of their professional interest, students are expected to become fluent in their own language, literate in at least one foreign language, and to give attention to the physical and life sciences, computer technology, and the fine arts.

It is hoped that disciplines in the liberal arts will enlarge and augment the student’s particular concern in order to produce the resourceful and thinking graduate who has an understanding of self, the past, and present, and who is prepared intellectually and morally for the task of shaping the future. 

The College of Liberal Arts offers the following graduate degrees: Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology; the Master of Arts in Criminology and Justice Services, English, History, Political Science and Sociology; the Master of Music Education; the Master of Science in Mass Communications; and the Master of Science in Education with concentrations in several foreign languages.