Trinity College of Arts and Sciences is the undergraduate liberal arts college at
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in
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. The college is currently one of two undergraduate divisions at Duke, the other being the Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering.
Arts & Sciences and Trinity College is the collective name of all educational and research programs in the
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,
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, and the natural sciences at Duke, inclusive of undergraduate programs and many degree programs in Duke's
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.
Trinity College of Arts and Sciences is the undergraduate liberal arts college at
Duke UniversityDuke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892...
in
Durham, North CarolinaNot to be confused with the U.K. city Durham.Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Durham County and also extends into Wake county. It is the fifth largest city in the state by population, with 223,284 residents as of July 1, 2008. Durham County as of July...
. The college is currently one of two undergraduate divisions at Duke, the other being the Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering.
Arts & Sciences and Trinity College is the collective name of all educational and research programs in the
humanitiesThe humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural and social sciences....
,
social sciencesThe social sciences are the fields of scientific knowledge and academic scholarship that study social groups and, more generally, human society. The social sciences initially were constituted of five fields: Jurisprudence and Amendment of the Law; Education; Health; Economy and Trade; Art...
, and the natural sciences at Duke, inclusive of undergraduate programs and many degree programs in Duke's
Graduate SchoolThe Graduate School of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States, is currently one of ten colleges and schools that make up the university...
. Arts and Sciences consists of approximiately 580 faculty members in 44 academic departments, as well as assorted interdisciplinary units. As of 2003, there were 5,400 undergraduates enrolled in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, the undergraduate degree granting unit. An additional 1000 undergraduates in the Pratt School of Engineering take roughly half their courses in Trinity College, while the Graduate School trains some 1200 doctoral and masters students in the arts and sciences as well as in
divinityThe Divinity School at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina is one of thirteen seminaries founded and supported by the United Methodist Church. It has 39 full time and 18 part time faculty and over 500 full time students....
, engineering,
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, and
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. The division's unusual dual name may reflect that the fact that it is responsible for undergraduate education (through Trinity College) and graduate education and research (Arts and Sciences).
Trinity College was the name of the predecessor of Duke University. Tobacco magnate and philanthropist
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left a $24 million bequest to transform the college into a research university called "Duke University" in honor of his father
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. In 1930, the institution's original Durham campus became known as the Women's College of Duke University, while Trinity continued as the name of the undergraduate men's college. The West or
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campus about a mile from East Campus became home to Trinity College, along with Duke University Hospital and the graduate and professional schools. The two colleges continued as coordinate residential and degree-granting entities for forty years. However, there was always a single faculty of Arts and Sciences responsible for undergraduate and graduate instruction. Trinity College and the Women's College merged in 1972 to form Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and the East and West campus became co-educational.
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