About FAS

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The academic leadership of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is characterized by a distinctive organizational structure in which the Provost shares with the Dean of Yale College and the Dean of the Graduate School responsibility for faculty appointments, reviews and promotions and the administration of the departments of instruction. The administration of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is therefore distributed among three offices: Yale College, the Graduate School, and the Office of the Provost.

Faculty members holding appointments in the academic departments of both Yale College and the Graduate School together constitute the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Within this Faculty there are four divisions: the division of the biological sciences, the division of the humanities, the division of the social sciences, and the division of the physical sciences and engineering. Advisory committees for each division and a director of the division are appointed by the president. Each advisory committee is chaired by the director and is responsible for making recommendations concerning appointments and educational policy in that division to the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Executive Committee consists of the President, the Provost, the Dean of Yale College, and the Dean of the Graduate School.

Academic Department and Programs
of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Biological Sciences
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Humanities
Classical Languages and Literatures
Comparative Literature
East Asian Languages and Literatures
English Language and Literature
French Language and Literature
Germanic Languages and Literatures
History
History of Art
Humanities Program
Italian Language and Literature
Music
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Philosophy
Religious Studies
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures

Physical Sciences and Engineering
Astronomy
Chemistry
Computer Science
Faculty of Engineering
Applied Physics
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Environmental Engineering Program
Mechanical Engineering
Geology and Geophysics
Mathematics
Physics

Social Sciences
Anthropology
Economics
Linguistics
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Statistics

Cross-Divisional
African American Studies Department
American Studies Program
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program

Note that both Yale College and the Graduate School include other instructional programs in addition to this list of FAS departments. For the full list of undergraduate programs of instruction, see the Yale College Programs of Study. For the full list of instructional programs in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, see the list of graduate school departments and programs.