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<p>Highlights:</p>
<p>The College of Arts and Sciences is a community of about 4,000 undergraduates and 600 faculty members. It is also a graduate school and research center. Altogether it attracts faculty whose research and scholarly and creative work require first-rate academic facilities and who bring to all their students the profound questioning and exciting ideas of current scholarship. Finally, the college exists within a university of other colleges at Cornell--about 19,000 undergraduate and graduate students and 1,500 faculty members. This wider community provides depth and diversity of applied and professional studies beyond what a college of the liberal arts and sciences alone can offer. Students studying the liberal arts and sciences may draw upon the knowledge and facilities of the other colleges at Cornell to complement their studies. Abundant variety and outstanding quality in many fields, including interdisciplinary fields, and emphasis on individual academic freedom and responsibility give the college and the university its distinctive character.</p>
<p>The richness of the college's undergraduate curriculum is extraordinary; there is no course that all students must take, and there are nearly 2,000 from which they may choose. By choosing courses each semester, students design their own education. They develop known interests and explore new subjects. An education in the liberal arts and sciences means honing one's critical and imaginative capacities, learning about oneself in nature and culture, and gaining experience with views of the world radically unlike one's own. All this is highly individual, and the college relies on each student and faculty adviser to design a sensible, challenging, and appropriate course of study.</p>