Welcome from the Dean

Dean Charles S. Suchar

Welcome to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. We hope that the information provided through the several menus and linked pages will help you better understand our various undergraduate and graduate academic programs and support services. The fact that you have made a virtual connection to this institution and its website suggests that you have an interest in knowing more about who we are and what we can offer you.

Our website offers you multiple ways in which you can familiarize yourself with our programs and the advantages of a DePaul Liberal Arts and Sciences education. If you wish to know even more about us and prefer to use more traditional modes of communication, please feel free to give us a call or visit us here in Chicago on our main Lincoln Park campus.

Liberal Arts and Sciences, the oldest and largest college at DePaul with 431 full-time faculty in 36 undergraduate and 28 graduate programs, offers students a variety of choices and opportunities to advance their education. Most of our programs are offered on the Lincoln Park campus, in one of Chicago’s finest and most exciting neighborhoods, where we have created a vibrant community of learners devoted to the life of the mind and the Vincentian mission of service to the community. Some of our programs are also offered at DePaul’s Loop campus and at select suburban locations. Courses are offered in the day, in the evening and on weekends. Our graduate programs in particular are designed and scheduled to serve the needs of working students who must pursue their study on a part-time basis.

The College is committed to providing all of its students with an education that balances in-depth study with a breadth of experience in various disciplines that form the core of human knowledge. All of our degree-granting programs seek to enhance student knowledge and critical thinking skills, to raise questions of value and meaning, and to develop those habits of the heart and mind intrinsic to lifelong and independent learning.

Above all else, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has succeeded because it has attracted good people to it: faculty, staff and students who share its values, vision and dedication to learning. Although most of our faculty members are active scholars, many with national and international reputations, they all are involved in teaching, and they all view teaching and the quality of our academic programs as their first commitment.

I again thank you for visiting our college, and I wish you the very best.

Sincerely,

Charles L. Suchar

Charles S. Suchar, Ph.D.
Dean and Professor of Sociology