College of Arts & Sciences

The College of Arts & Sciences is the beating heart of SHU.

Our biggest college and home to the widest array of programs, it’s also the source of the career-focused liberal arts foundation that drives academics at SHU. From accounting and anthropology to theology and theater arts—and everything in between—the College of Arts & Sciences will help you see and forge connections between your values and your ambition, and between you and the world.

In addition to over 50 majors and programs, the College of Arts & Sciences houses the School of Communication, Media & the Arts and the School of Social Work.

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Faculty Spotlight

Sacred Heart University proudly recognizes our faculty for their scholarly achievement through their outstanding publishing efforts and industry experience.

Nidhi Shrivastava, Ph.D.

Lecturer, Languages & Literature
Dr. Shrivastava is working on her monograph, India’s Daughters: #MeToo, Politics of Forgetting and Representations of Gendered Violence in 1947 Partition Narratives (1948-Present), which explores the history of rape in Hindi cinema, the 1947 Partition Archive and the limited success of #MeToo India. She recently presented at the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual conference in Philadelphia and will be published in the MLA anthology Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature in May 2024.

Bill Mag Fhloinn

Lecturer, Dingle Campus
Mag Fhloinn is a lecturer at SHU’s Dingle, Ireland, campus, where he teaches courses on prehistoric rituals and beliefs. The Ireland experience includes field exploration of burial sites and temples, getting a sense of the deep past. Mag Fhloinn made international headlines recently when, as part of an ongoing project mapping the peninsula’s cultural environment, he rediscovered a 4,500-year-old tomb. There’s always more to discover.

Mission

The mission of the College of Arts & Sciences is to foster a dynamic and inclusive community of students, faculty and staff dedicated to intellectual inquiry, lifelong learning, global engagement, civic and social responsibility, human dignity and the common good. With its rigorous values-based curriculum, the College of Arts & Sciences provides the foundation of the students’ learning experience, leading the University in exploring, transmitting and developing the Liberal Arts and Catholic Intellectual traditions.

Vision

The College of Arts & Sciences aspires to be a diverse community of internationally recognized scholars, excellent teachers and mentors, and intellectually engaged students. Through distinctive academic programs, we strive to demonstrate the essential role of the liberal arts for contemporary society through a curriculum that fosters intentional reflection and courageous civil discourse and develops wise leaders committed to making meaningful contributions to local, national and global communities.

Academics

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The overarching goals of SHU’s College of Arts and Sciences are:

  • The development of skills in reading, writing, and oral communication; critical thinking; and, quantitative and scientific reasoning.
  • The cultivation of intellectual inquiry, lifelong learning, and civic engagement, especially as relates to social justice and the common good.
  • An appreciation of the value of the liberal arts and Catholic Intellectual Traditions, especially to foster multidisciplinary and collaborative approaches to addressing contemporary problems.
  • The preparation of strong leaders and contributors to the local, national, and global communities.

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