LASS Division Dean's Welcome

The Languages, Arts, and Social Sciences Division within the Alexandria Campus is a good place to study where humanity has been, where it is, and where it might be going. It is a good place to gain skills and insights useful in shaping both a personal future and the future of humanity.

The dawn of the 21st century illuminated a world unrecognizable to our ancestors. It is a world interdependent and interconnected, a world where anything that happens anywhere can affect everyone everywhere. To see the world more clearly in the light of this new age, come study with us at the Alexandria Campus.

The Alexandria Campus is a world campus. We have students from 160 of the world’s nations in our classrooms. Our graduates are to be found everywhere on the globe.

The Languages, Arts, and Social Sciences Division at the Alexandria Campus is a good place to study where humanity has been, where it is, and where it might be going. It is a good place to gain skills and insights useful in shaping both a personal future and the future of humanity.

We offer courses in World Literature, Environmental Studies, Histories of Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and Western Civilization, Religions of the World, Music and Art Appreciation, Intercultural Communications, and many more directed at creating a better understanding of the world around us.

We are home to the finest English as a Second Language program in the Commonwealth of Virginia. We offer fourteen of the world’s languages, including the ten most widely spoken.

Jean H. Braden Center for Student Success, also a unit within the Languages, Arts, and Social Sciences Division, provides a place for quiet study as well as seminars, lectures and classes dealing with issues that shape our world.

Sincerely,
Jay Steere
Academic Dean
Languages, Arts, and Social Sciences Division
Bisdorf Building, Room 252

LASS Programs and Disciplines

  • Art History
  • Communication Studies/Cinema and Theater
  • English
  • ESL
  • Early Childhood
  • Education
  • Economics
  • Fine Art
  • French
  • Graphic Design
  • Geography
  • Greek
  • History
  • Humanities
  • Human Services 
  • Japanese
  • Latin
  • Music
  • Photography and Media
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Social Science
  • Sociology