College of Arts & Sciences

Having myself recently joined the university and the college, I am excited to welcome you to the College of Arts & Sciences of Embry-Riddle’s Worldwide Campus and its internet presence! The college is proud of its reputation as an international leader in online education in the aviation and aerospace industry as well as in multiple interdisciplinary fields, such as Emergency Services and Management, Human Security, Homeland Security and Communications.

The college is comprised of the Departments of Behavioral and Social Sciences; Humanities and Communication; Mathematics, Science and Technology; and Security and Emergency Services.

We develop and deliver flagship academic degrees as well as research programs across a variety of disciplines with the goal of integrating research, teaching and outreach into an interdisciplinary center of excellence. Concurrently, we initiate interdisciplinary programs and courses that invigorate the general education program, grounded in a valuable set of competencies for the aviation and aerospace enterprise as well as for professional safety and security disciplines.

Through multiple modes, it comprehensively delivers employable higher education in a variety of fields of the arts and sciences across disciplinary, geographical and cultural boundaries. The college offers several bachelor’s and master’s degrees in a variety of disciplines and modes of delivery (including but not limited to fully online):

Students can choose from four bachelor of science degrees: Communication, Emergency Services, Homeland Security and Interdisciplinary Studies (with minors in Environmental Science, Mathematics and Military Science).

Graduate students have a choice between three master of science degrees: Emergency Services, Human Security and Resilience, and, most recently, Human Factors.

There are also a number of minors available: Applied Meteorology, Communication, Economics, Emergency Services, Environmental Science, Homeland Security, Humanistic STEM, International Relations Mathematics, Military Science and Organizational/Industrial Psychology.

The college also provides over 2,000 sections of general education courses annually as part of every degree program at Embry-Riddle, with a focus on developing competencies in eight areas: collaborative learning, communication, critical thinking, cultural literacy, information literacy, quantitative reasoning, scientific literacy and technological literacy.

We are committed to a holistic approach to student success and a personalized online learning experience. Our 40 full-time and approximately 330 part-time faculty deliver courses globally online via Canvas, synchronous via EagleVision to both home and classrooms, face-to-face at 130 U.S. and international locations, and blended. Our Virtual Environment for Communication: Teaching, Outreach and Research (VECTOR) supports Embry-Riddle students and faculty in teaching, learning and research related to written, spoken, visual and digital communication.

The college is excellently networked and collaborates with local, state and federal government agencies and the private sector to increase opportunities for graduates, as well as to let our programs’ curricula evolve not only along the scientific state-of-the-art but also along with real-world workforce requirements.

The college is committed to contributing to the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University research mission, with the goal of promoting excellence in applied research and impactful scholarship. Our research projects have been supported by research projects supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Natural Hazards Center (NHC), among others. We are also creating a research environment that extends into the classroom — for example, enabling undergraduate and graduate research experiences as well as placing students on internships where they have an early opportunity to be involved in real-world applied research projects.

My main focus area is to champion a collaborative effort to steer our college to its next level of excellence while engaging with the whole college student, faculty and stakeholder community. I am working with that whole community to define a shared vision from which our joint priorities will derive.

Let me invite you to explore us here online, to connect and to get involved!