Bowling Green State University College of Arts and Sciences is the College of Arts and Sciences at Bowling Green State University

Bowling Green State University

Bowling Green State University, often referred to as Bowling Green or BGSU, is a public, coeducational research university located in Bowling Green, Ohio, United States. The institution was granted a charter in 1910 by the State of Ohio as part of the Lowry Bill, which also established Kent State...

 in Bowling Green, Ohio

Bowling Green, Ohio

Bowling Green is the county seat of Wood County in the U.S. state of Ohio. At the time of the 2010 census, the population of Bowling Green was 30,028. It is part of the Toledo, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bowling Green is the home of Bowling Green State University...

. The college offers curriculum for both undergraduate and graduate students (including doctoral).

The college was founded in 1929 as the College of Liberal Arts; today it is the largest and most diverse college at BGSU, with 31 departments and 3 schools offering more than 100 areas of study and nine interdisciplinary programs. Graduate programs in the College of Arts and Sciences include 11 doctoral and 22 master’s degree programs.

Applied Philosophy

According to the Philosophical Gourmet Report, BGSU's Ph.D. program in Applied Philosophy ranks in the top group (programs 1-6) in the English-speaking world in the area of Applied Ethics, along with programs such as Harvard University and Oxford University. The Report also notes BGSU's significant strengths in the areas of political philosophy, metaethics, and normative ethics/moral psychology Students and faculty benefit from the activities of BGSU's Social Philosophy and Policy Center, which has a long history of bringing excellent scholars to campus.

Popular Culture

BGSU's Popular Culture Department

Popular culture

Popular culture is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the...

 is a unique component of the university. Not only is Popular Culture the first department of its kind in the country, but its founder, Dr. Ray B. Browne, also established The Journal of Popular Culture

Journal of Popular Culture

The Journal of Popular Culture is a peer-reviewed journal and the official publication of the Popular Culture Association.The Journal of Popular Culture publishes academic essays on all aspects of popular or mass culture...

 and the national Popular Culture Association, both of which are widely known and respected to this day. By extension, BGSU also has quite an extensive popular culture library, the Browne Popular Culture Library. The Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives in the Jerome Library

The University Libraries at Bowling Green State University

The University Libraries is the main library located on the campus of Bowling Green State University, in Bowling Green, Ohio.The promotes Bowling Green State University’s mission to develop engaged citizens who are culturally literate, globally aware, and technologically sophisticated...

contains over 1,000,000 titles (mostly on vinyl), making it the third-largest collection of popular music in the world.

Psychology

The university's Ph.D. program in Industrial-Organizational Psychology program is ranked #3 in the nation (behind Michigan State and Minnesota and ahead of Penn State and Illinois) by the U.S. News and World Report. BGSU's Industrial-Organizational Psychology program was founded by noted Industrial-Organizational psychologists Robert Guion and Patricia Cain Smith. Its graduates have gone on to success in academia, private industry, and government.