Departments

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CASL’s interdisciplinary departments reflect the full range of the liberal arts and sciences, with related fields grouped together to facilitate interdisciplinary teaching and research.

Behavioral Sciences

In Behavioral Sciences, we study human beings as individuals, in groups, within societies, and across cultures.

Language, Culture, and Communication

In Language, Culture, and Communication, we study the development, structure, and use of language in rhetorical situations and cultural contexts.

Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts

In Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts, we study written and visual texts in the expression of human thought and emotion.

Mathematics and Statistics

In Mathematics and Statistics, we study numbers in both pure and applied contexts.

Natural Sciences

In Natural Sciences, we study the natural world, both living and non-living.

Social Sciences

In Social Sciences, we study the economic, social, and political organization of human societies over time and in space.

College-Wide Programs

These are interdisciplinary programs offering majors and minors that involve faculty and courses from different departments.

CASL Current News

Dick and Linda Dyer in China — Dick ('64 B.S.) and Linda Dyer ('65 Teacher Cert.) in Beijing during a U-M Alumni Association trip to China

Supporting a strong foundation

“We are advocates of CASL because we feel that it gives you a good foundation to move forward in a changing world.” Alumni Dick and Linda Dyer created an endowed scholarship to help UM-Dearborn students on the path to success.

A photo collage showing activists from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests combined with Civil Rights demonstrations from the 1960s. — Photo credit Matthew Roth via Flickr/Creative Commons (left); Library of Congress (right).

Where the 2020 protests fit into the history of the African American Freedom Movement

A UM-Dearborn professor and historian reflects on the promise of the current wave of activism, why America is more reformist than revolutionary, and how to stoke the fire of anti-racism.

Leadership appointments and changes in CASL

Congratulations to several CASL faculty members on their new roles within the college.

CASL faculty Paul Draus speaks to a group of officers during the Alternatives to Violent Force training on campus. — Professor Paul Draus speaks with police officers during an Alternatives to Violent Force session in November 2019. If you have questions about UM-Dearborn’s AVF workshop series or if you would like to enroll your officers in a future session, please contact Draus, director of the Graduate Program in Criminology and Criminal Justice, at draus@umich.edu.

Addressing the 'Us vs. Them'

Three UM-Dearborn Alternatives for Violent Force educators — a retired Michigan State Police chief, a Civil Rights specialist, and a Detroit community leader who's a member of the Detroit Police Department — weigh in on the global Black Lives Matter Movement and ways to address systemic racism.