Auburn University Montgomery (School of Liberal Arts)

About AUM

Auburn University at Montgomery, the metropolitan campus of Auburn University, was established by an act of the Alabama Legislature in 1967. Located on a 500-acre campus seven miles east of downtown Montgomery, AUM offers highly respected, accredited academic programs in a challenging but caring college environment.

A broad-based academic institution, AUM is organized into five schools: Business, Education, Liberal Arts, Nursing, and Sciences.

Undergraduate degrees include the Bachelor of Arts in communication and dramatic arts, English, fine arts, history and international studies; and Bachelor of Science in business administration, education, justice and public safety, mathematics, physical science, political science and psychology. AUM offers graduate degrees in the Schools of Business, Education, Liberal Arts, and Sciences and the Education Specialist degree. A Ph.D. in public administration and public policy is offered jointly with Auburn University and an Au.D. (professional degree in audiology) is offered in cooperation with Auburn University. In addition, AUM offers the Master of International Relations for permanent party officers, civilians, and noncommissioned officers at Montgomery's Maxwell Air Force Base.

Classes on the AUM campus are held Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at hours that vary from semester to semester. Offering classes during both the day and the evening hours has been a standard practice at the University since fall quarter, 1969, and provides students greater flexibility in course scheduling. The total number of students enrolled at AUM during fall 2004 was 5,123. In addition to the students enrolled in credit courses, over 10,000 persons were enrolled in Continuing Education activities.

AUM is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, GA 30033-4097; telephone number 404-679-4501) to award the bachelor's, master's and specialist degrees as well as a joint doctoral degree with Auburn University. Classes are offered daytime, evenings and weekends.


Mission Statement
Auburn University at Montgomery’s mission, as the metropolitan campus of Auburn University, a land-grant institution, is to foster and exemplify excellence in education through instruction, research, and service. Auburn University at Montgomery blends the traditional views of the university as a community of scholars with the contemporary view of the university as an integral part of the surrounding community, state, and region. AUM provides academic programs that are characteristic of the finest traditions of scholarship and consistent with the responsibility of the university to provide support for the functions of government, regional economic growth, and cultural enrichment through the arts.

As a center of learning dedicated to the examination of ideas
and values influencing civilizations, AUM is committed to:

1. Providing its students with an understanding of the issues, ideas, and values that have a significant impact on the development of society;
2. Developing in its students the methodological approaches essential to understanding contemporary society and its problems, and to fostering critical thinking;
3. Providing students with a broadly based education, as well as preparing them for the learned professions;
4. Conducting research that contributes to the advancement of knowledge;
5. Extending its knowledge, skills, and resources to the community, state, and region;
6. Providing opportunities for lifelong learning.


School of Liberal Arts

We are proud of our excellent programs in the humanities, the arts and the social sciences at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Our undergraduate programs include communication (including dramatic arts and speech and hearing), English, fine arts, history, international studies (including international trade), sociology, and liberal arts. At the graduate level we are fortunate to have the only Master of Liberal Arts Program in the state. Additionally, we have a cooperative doctoral program in audiology with Auburn University and a cooperative masters program in sociology also with Auburn University.

The student’s development is the primary focus for our excellent faculty. Our faculty members are outstanding teachers; they also are active scholars with considerable community involvement.

Our goal is to provide our student with the necessary skills to enhance their career success in positions of leaderships.


Departments and Programs
Nearly all educated men and women would agree that the graduates of a school of liberal arts, whatever their specializations, should know enough about their world to live, in humanistic terms, to the fullest of their potential as intellectual, social, and ethical beings. Therefore, these graduates should have encountered ideas and values that are a part of their culture and against which they will measure experiential reality. It is a commonplace that educated men and women should know something about the foundations of their culture; should overcome geographical provincialism through a knowledge of cultures other than their own; should be conversant with the best that has been thought and said in Western culture so as to be able to formulate their own philosophical constructs; should be able to express themselves clearly in their own language, both in speech and in writing; should be familiar with basic scientific and analytical methods as they are specifically applied to the disciplines of mathematics and the natural and physical sciences; and should cultivate a knowledge an appreciation of aesthetics through exposure to the fine arts.

The Liberal Arts requirements at AUM reflect these assumptions about the fundamentals of education and are designed to offer a plan of study that will ensure the student's exposure to many of the academic disciplines which provide a basic contest for the liberally educated man or women.


* Communication and Dramatic Arts
We offer our students a wide variety of courses and experiences. One of our primary goals is to assist you in developing a portfolio of experiences and products that can be used to exhibit the best you have to offer in job-readiness and enlightened citizenship. For example, as part of their course work, students in our department have presented papers at conferences, raised thousands of dollars for local charities, edited the student newspaper, the AUMNIBUS, and co-authored a book, Who Was Dexter Avenue, Anyhow?, that has been for sale in area bookstores. In addition, our students have competed for and won national distinction in group discussion, acting, and scene design.

Our department has a small and very approachable faculty who look forward to working with you as you achieve your educational goals. Please feel free to drop by the department any time we can be of help.

* Fine Arts
The Department of Fine Arts combines the discipline of Visual Arts and Music, offering a Major in Visual Art and an minor in Music. The curricula in Visual Arts and Music, through teaching the traditional principles, methods and techniques, will provide a sound foundation upon which specialized pursuits may be built. Inherent in this process is the aim of increasing the student's knowledge and enjoyment of art and music, but a further objective is to stimulate the student's awareness of their own reality and to help them develop the tools with which to express that reality in visual or musical terms.


Bachelor of Liberal Arts
Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Program of Study

The Bachelor of Liberal Arts (BLA) is a program designed primarily to serve the needs of students who seek an alternative to the program of disciplinary majors and minors. Additionally, it is for students who may have acquired academic credit in diverse curricula from other institutions or from military service schools.

Students in the program must meet the same entrance requirements to the university and must reach the same level of academic achievement as any other degree-seeking students. However, BLA students do not choose an academic major; rather, they select from a flexible curriculum of interdisciplinary studies.

All academic majors at AUM make significant contributions to a student's education, but the flexibility of the BLA allows the student to go beyond the boundaries of an individual discipline. Hence, the student becomes acquainted with diverse approaches, ideas, issues, and methodologies. This flexibility also allows the student to choose courses related to a particular interest or theme.

By careful planning in enrollment, the student can acquire the valuable skills of effective communication, critical thinking, and problem solving.

In addition, the BLA can provide a solid foundation for advanced study in professional and graduate schools.


Master of Liberal Arts

The Master of Liberal Arts degree (MLA) at AUM offers students an interdisciplinary program of graduate study in the Liberal Arts, with the possibility of advanced work in the areas of art, communication, English, history, international studies, music, sociology (including anthropology and archaeology, and theatre. The Master of Liberal Arts program can provide stimulus for students seeking an intellectual challenge and the opportunity to explore a variety of current and classical ideas, themes, and problems through graduate work in these disciplines.

Originally designed as an enrichment degree, this 30-semester-hour graduate program has served many graduates as a springboard to doctoral work or collegiate teaching careers due to its broad foundation in the history of ideas and its thesis requirement. Both recent college graduates and adults in established careers join ranks in MLA classes, pursuing the degree full-time or part-time after work. The three required core courses are offered in the evening to accommodate students' work schedules.

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