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Bowling Green State University College of Arts and Sciences
Established1929 (1929)
DeanDale Klopfer (Interim)[1]
Academic staff
500
Location
Bowling Green
,
Ohio
,
U.S.
WebsiteWebsite

Bowling Green State University College of Arts and Sciences is the College of Arts and Sciences[2] at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. The college offers curriculum for both undergraduate and graduate students (including doctoral).

The college was founded in 1929 as the College of Liberal Arts, and is the largest college at BGSU, with 21 departments and 4 schools offering more than 100 areas of study and nine interdisciplinary programs. Graduate programs in the College of Arts and Sciences include 12 doctoral and 25 master's degree programs.

Notable departments

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Applied Philosophy

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According to the Philosophical Gourmet Report, BGSU's Ph.D. program in Applied Philosophy ranks in the top group (programs 1-6) in the English-speaking world in the area of Applied Ethics, along with programs at Harvard University and the University of Oxford.[3] The Report also notes BGSU's significant strengths in the areas of political philosophy, Meta-ethics, and normative ethics/moral psychology[4] Students and faculty benefit from the activities of BGSU's Social Philosophy and Policy Center, which has a long history of bringing excellent scholars to campus.

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Main article: Bowling Green State University Department of Popular Culture
Jerome Library on BGSU's main Campus

BGSU's Popular Culture Department is a unique component of the university. Not only is Popular Culture the first department of its kind in the country, but its founder, Dr. Ray B. Browne, also established The Journal of Popular Culture and the national Popular Culture Association, both of which are widely known and respected to this day.[5] By extension, BGSU also has quite an extensive popular culture library, the Browne Popular Culture Library.[6] The Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives in the Jerome Library[7] contains over 1 million titles (mostly on vinyl), making it the third-largest collection of popular music in the world.

Psychology

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The university's Ph.D. program in Industrial-Organizational Psychology program is ranked #3 in the nation (behind Michigan State and Minnesota and ahead of Penn State and Illinois) by the U.S. News & World Report.[8] BGSU's Industrial-Organizational Psychology program was founded by noted Industrial-Organizational psychologists Robert Guion and Patricia Cain Smith.

Sociology

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The sociology department often works in close conjunction with the National Center for Family and Marriage Research, which it shares a building with.[9] The center was established on September 15, 2007 through a cooperative effort between the university and the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary For Planning and Evaluation.[10]

Computer Science

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The Department of Computer Science was founded in 1969, with Dr. David L. Fulton appointed as founding chair in 1970.[11]

From June 25 through June 17, 1975, the Department of Computer Science hosted the second Association for Computing Machinery SIGGRAPH conference.[12]

References

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  1. ^ "Arts and sciences dean reassigned at BGSU". Sentinel-Tribune. 13 September 2020. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
  2. ^ The College of Arts and Sciences at Bowling Green State University Archived February 17, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "The Philosophical Gourmet Report 2006-2008 - Applied Ethics". The Philosophical Gourmet Report. Archived from the original on 2012-09-06. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
  4. ^ "The Philosophical Gourmet Report 2006-2008 - Breakdown of Programs by Specialties". The Philosophical Gourmet Report. Archived from the original on 2012-09-06. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
  5. ^ BGSU Departments: Popular Culture Archived April 19, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ BGSU: Browne Popular Culture Library Archived March 8, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ "BGSU: University Libraries". Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2009-03-09.
  8. ^ "America's Best Graduate Schools: Psychology - Industrial/Organizational Psychology". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
  9. ^ "National Center for Family & Marriage Research (NCFMR)". Bowling Green State University. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  10. ^ "National Center for Family and Marriage Research: Current Opportunities". ASPE. 22 November 2015. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  11. ^ "BGSU I-O psychology and computer science celebrate 50 years". Bowling Green State University. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  12. ^ "Computerworld". IDG Enterprise. 30 October 1974. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
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