College of Arts and Sciences | Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
As the home of the liberal arts at Syracuse University, A&S is a community that celebrates the joy in learning from the perspectives, cultures and diversity of people everywhere. Through a broad scope of academic programs and co-curricular opportunities, students graduate with the flexibility and creativity to take on today’s social, economic and political challenges.
The Maxwell School is a community of scholars who believe that responsible citizenship is not just a concept; it’s the active, ongoing pursuit to empower a more healthy and inclusive society. It’s a community of diverse individuals dedicated to making the world a better place—and to helping each other succeed.
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A&S | Maxwell offers a broad range of degree programs across the sciences and mathematics, the humanities, and the social sciences (offered in collaboration with the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs). Students can further customize their education with interdisciplinary and dual, and combined-degree programs, as well as through research projects, immersion trips to top businesses and cities, international study and service-learning opportunities. 4 +1 options allow students to graduate with both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in just five years.
Integrated Learning Majors (ILMs) combine a traditional major with coursework in a multidisciplinary or emerging field. ILMs available in A&S | Maxwell include Citizenship and Civic Engagement, Digital Humanities, Energy and Its Impacts, Environment, Sustainability and Policy, Ethics, Forensic Science, Health Humanities and Neuroscience.
Opened in 1873, the Hall of Languages is Syracuse University’s oldest building and stood as its sole structure for 14 years. Constructed under the tenure of SU’s first Chancellor, Alexander Winchell, the Hall of Languages was built of Onondaga limestone in the then-popular Second Empire style for $136,000. Originally, there were to be six more buildings erected in the same style, including the Hall of Science, the Hall of Philosophy, and the Hall of History. A harsh economic recession ended those plans, however, leaving the Hall of Languages as the sole monument to the University’s earliest campus plan. Home of The College of Arts and Sciences, the building was renovated in 1978, but retained its elegant exterior architecture. The Hall of Languages now provides classrooms that can accommodate 2,235 students and offices for many departments, including English and textual studies, philosophy, and religion.
Eggers Hall is a six story building that is linked to Maxwell Hall by a three-tiered atrium. When built, it housed the departments of the Maxwell School, including history, economics, political science and geography. Included were a public events room, a 100-seat lecture hall, administrative and faculty offices, offices for a number of Maxwell School programs and a café. Themed seminar rooms such as the American Experiment Seminar Room honored the Seneca Falls Women’s Movement, while the People of the Longhouse Seminar Room held banks of chairs against the walls and an open center space inspired by Onondaga Nation council meetings.
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