The departments and units in our college are at the center of the Liberal and Fine Arts on the campus of NDSU.  Our departments offer basic undergraduate educational opportunities as well as General Education courses for students from all over the campus and quality graduate degree programs in humanities, social sciences and in the fine arts.

In addition to preparing students for a livelihood in a highly competitive society, our academic majors provide skills that generalize to the world in which our graduates will live.  Critical thinking, an ability to communicate in all media, an appreciation of the diversity of ideas that constitute the intellectual marketplace, and a recognition of the importance of all traditions to creating our present cutural and international tapestry, will hold our students in good stead across their professional and personal lives.