The College of Arts and Sciences is the academic heart of the University of North Texas. It is a learning and discovery community of increasingly recognized and highly capable scholars and artists who interact in a variety of formats with talented students and colleagues across disciplines for the purpose of communicating, pursuing, and advancing knowledge. Accordingly, our mission is:

" to promote and provide, through diverse courses of study, the finest in quality graduate and undergraduate education and scholarship in traditional liberal arts, performing arts, sciences, professional, and technical academic programs."

Our mission is served by programs and activities designed to enrich the human mind, stimulate and sustain a spirit of free inquiry, and sharpen and enlarge the intellectual capacities and aesthetic awareness of the members of the College community. We carry out our mission while preserving depth, breadth, and cohesiveness within the vast scope of our College. This balance is epitomized in our College’s motto - "Excellence, Unity, Diversity."