College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences

Welcome from the Dean

Welcome to the College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences. Our College consists of more than 2,000 students, over 120 faculty members, eight departments, a School of Communication and several interdisciplinary programs. With this size and variety, we are able to combine the personal attention of a liberal arts college with the resources and opportunities of a large university.

• Appalachian Studies
• Criminal Justice
• English
• Foreign Languages and Literatures
• Geography
• History
• Interdisciplinary Programs
• International Studies Minor
• Military Science (Army ROTC)
• Philosophy and Religious Studies
• Political Science
• Psychology
• School of Communication
• Sociology and Anthropology
• Women's Studies

We encourage students to forge strong bonds with our experienced and accomplished faculty members. Students regularly present their scholarship and receive recognition at professional conferences. This past year, for instance, two of our History majors won awards-first place and second place-for at the Virginia regional conference of Alpha Phi Theta, and two of our Psychology graduate students won the award for the best paper at the 29th annual Graduate Student Conference in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior. At a recent meeting of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, RU students made twenty-four presentations across several disciplines. In the spring of 2010, we will host the Big South Undergraduate Research Symposium. For Radford University's Centennial Celebration in 2010, our College has plans to host the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, the Southeast Regional Counseling Psychology Conference, and an interdisciplinary symposium on "100 Years of American Presidents and Civil Rights".

Our students have opportunities to use what they learn on regional, national and international stages. For instance, our Sociology students have recently received internships at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the Virginia Tech Center for Survey Research, the Women's Resource Center in Radford, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Our Media Studies students have recently completed internships in Washington, New York City, San Francisco, and London.

We hope you will become a member of this vital academic community. Please take some time to explore the information available on this site about our programs, our faculty, our students, and our alumni.

College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Lynn M. Zoch, Interim Dean
lzoch@radford.edu