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At St. Lawrence we see academic advising as part of our teaching mission––to inspire students to reach their fullest intellectual and personal potential. We assist students in understanding the curriculum and exploring their academic and co-curricular interests, and offer support for students to improve their academic performance, develop skills, and connect with the many resources and opportunities at St. Lawrence to find their paths toward productive and meaningful lives.

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Welcome to the Academic Affairs webpage! We are responsible for the supervision of recruitment of faculty, curricula, assessment, and academic responsibilities of faculty, as well as the budgetary supervision of all academic departments.

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The Mission of the Adirondack Semester is to enable students to study nature and human relationships with nature through academic classes enriched by direct experience. The Semester takes place at Arcadia, an off-the-grid yurt village in the heart of the Adirondacks. The goals of the program are to foster a deeper understanding of and appreciation for the natural world, to create a vibrant living and learning community at Arcadia, and to cultivate a strong connection to the Adirondack region.

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Greetings from St. Lawrence University! Here in our beautiful corner of northern New York, adventure, creativity, innovation, and tradition take many forms and infuse everything from our demanding liberal arts and sciences curriculum to our career prep programs to our vibrant student life.

As a student at St. Lawrence, your curiosity will be your guide. You’ll ask bold questions that lead to unexpected answers. You’ll seek new opportunities and engage perspectives that differ from your own. In the process, you’ll form your own unique conclusions, because we believe an education is not something you simply absorb—it’s something you DO. Your thirst for knowledge and experience could lead you to pursue independent research for your eventual major or minor, to travel far and wide off campus, and to use the North Country as your classroom.

St. Lawrence students graduate with the skills they need to make an impact, both in their own hometowns and globally. We invite you to visit our campus to get a better sense of how our students, faculty, staff, and alumni can help you shape a future that is both successful and personally fulfilling. You can start here for more information on scheduling a visit, applying to St. Lawrence, or paying for your education. The college search process is the very beginning of a great adventure, and we look forward to working with and getting to know you and your family!

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Want to see the world in a different way? Then check out anthropology! As an anthropology student, the whole human world, past and present, will be your subject. You will get the tools you need to understand all aspects of the human experience, from our DNA to the languages we speak to the artifacts we make, from the beginnings of primate evolution to the contemporary era of rich cultural diversity.

Our majors and minors choose from a broad range of courses in archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and biological anthropology. Our majors also complete an experiential learning component which can involve study abroad, independent research, community-based learning, or an internship. Our graduates put their anthropological skills to use in many different settings: schools and universities, government agencies, private companies, and non-profit organizations.

Our faculty members have done research in Egypt, India, Indonesia, Namibia, Sudan, and upstate New York, and we mentor student research in many other places both at home and abroad. Our teaching and research laboratories house several collections of artifacts as well as human skeletal materials and ancient bone and fossil casts for hands-on study. We hope to see you in our classes!

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The study of art & art history is central to a liberal arts education, especially in a world increasingly shaped by images and seemingly endless visual information. The Department of Art & Art History makes rich contributions to St. Lawrence’s liberal arts curriculum. While studio art courses involve creativity and the physical or conceptual production of artworks, art history courses engage students in the interpretation of art from many different regions and times.

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Biology majors at St. Lawrence University have access to an exciting variety of options. As a student, you can utilize laboratories in the LEED Gold-Certified, Johnson Hall of Science. You can study outdoors in the woods or on a local lake in northern New York, or even in another country. Do you want to conduct real-world research and also enjoy the liberal arts college experience? You can definitely do so in the Biology department at St. Lawrence University, with some of the best faculty in their fields.

Students in our biology program study the breadth of the life sciences: from ecology and organismal biology to cellular and molecular biology. A biology degree from St. Lawrence can lead to careers in environmental conservation, science education, research, medicine, physical therapy, and other health industries.

St. Lawrence has also developed quite the reputation among graduate schools and health professional programs like Syracuse, Dartmouth, Albany College of Pharmacy and Penn, as well as biotechnology companies. St. Lawrence has agreements with the SUNY Buffalo School of Pharmacy, the Nursing Program at NYU, the Physician’s Assistant Program at Clarkson, and the Physical Therapy Program at Clarkson for students to pursue a combined degree.

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The Richard F. Brush Art Gallery aims to strengthen community by creating a sense of belonging for all who visit, teach, and learn in its spaces, both physically and virtually. In accordance with St. Lawrence University’s acknowledgement of "the need to challenge previous habits and assumptions understanding the structures of power and injustice in which they exist," we enact our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusivity, and accessibility by prioritizing tangible, ongoing steps to diversify exhibitions and the permanent collection, to encourage participation and feedback from diverse communities, and to create an accessible environment. We work to elevate and amplify the voices and creative artistic expressions of those who have been historically marginalized, either explicitly or implicitly, and Gallery resources at all levels – staffing, funding, exhibition and program opportunities, and acquisitions – will be invested in these activities.

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Welcome to the St. Lawrence University Business Office webpage! The Business Office and Student Financial Services are here to serve the campus community in financial matters.

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Did you know that St. Lawrence is located only about 75 miles from a national capital? Ottawa, home of the Canadian parliament, is just a hop, skip and a bridge away for St. Lawrence students to discover. Our proximity to Canada allows our students to explore and understand our closest international neighbor, and how Canada offers an alternative shared history, other ways of seeing things and another understanding of how to be North American.

Combine Canadian studies with another program such as history, government or English and take the opportunity to find out more about our neighbor to the north. Also, take advantage of opportunities to study in Canada in cities like Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City and Toronto.

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The Center for Career Excellence empowers students and young alumni to articulate the value of their St. Lawrence education to navigate success in a diverse world through meaningful experiences and connections.

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St. Lawrence University’s mission is to provide an inspiring and demanding undergraduate education in the liberal arts. The Patti McGill Peterson Center for International and Intercultural Studies is integral to this mission by inspiring Laurentians to see our Canton campus as a gateway to understanding local and global issues. We challenge students, faculty, and staff to develop critical intercultural skills in and out of the classroom and incorporate these lessons into their lives.

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St. Lawrence University's brand-new Center for the Environment empowers the next generation of leaders to develop the skills necessary—through education, advocacy, and action—to be agents of change in their communities, the region, and the world.

Combining our existing programs with innovative new initiatives, our Center for the Environment expands on decades of research, teaching, and experiential opportunities for students, and spans the globe—from our beautiful 1,000-acre green campus in the heart of the North Country to our living/learning compound in Nairobi, Kenya.

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ALL ARE WELCOME!

“No matter what world we live in now, we are all people of the earth, connected to one another by our mutual humanity.”
~Angeles Arrien, The Four-Fold Way

We are grounded in the inclusion, belonging and well-being of all people, regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation, disability, socioeconomic status or religion/spiritual tradition. Our mission is to enhance and nurture the spiritual lives of students, faculty and staff at St. Lawrence University. Spirituality is central to our lives and helps us to live more meaningful lives. Though spirituality overlaps with religion or belief in God/the divine/higher being, spirituality does not necessarily equal religion. Our working definition of spirituality is “that which moves us toward wholeness, making meaning, purpose and connection.” The Chaplain’s Office offers programs and resources to aid in spiritual development.

The Chaplain’s Office is committed to:
*Providing spiritual care and pastoral support. The chaplain offers guidance and/or spiritual support to persons about a range of topics. Topics include faith, deepening spiritually, grief and loss, belonging, big questions, purpose, making meaning, discernment, identity, relationships, sexuality, conflict, important life decisions and more.
*Providing opportunities and resources for persons to engage in various spiritual practices and reflection in times of crisis, celebration or spiritual exploration. These resources help develop the spiritual/religious imagination.
*Interfaith engagement and spiritual/religious pluralism by providing opportunities for constructive communication and partnerships between spiritually/religiously diverse communities.
*Assisting in times of crisis, celebration or annual observances, with religious/spiritual rituals, campus ceremonies and university traditions. Examples include baptisms, weddings, vigils, memorial services, worship services, mediations, restorative circles, holding space gatherings, concerts, convocations, commencements, etc.

“WHOEVER YOU ARE AND WHEREVER YOU ARE ON LIFE’S JOURNEY, YOU ARE WELCOME HERE!”
The Chaplain looks forward to meeting with you! Make an appointment or stop by during office hours!

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Chemists understand the natural world through the structure and bonding of atoms. From their first course in chemistry, St. Lawrence students learn through hands-on experiences in the classroom and cutting-edge labs. They pursue independent research projects with faculty mentors to discover new medications, forms of renewable energy, and insights into the structure of proteins. Many students present their results at regional and national conferences. Our chemistry program builds from its liberal arts setting to educate the whole person, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) couldn’t agree more, providing us with a grant to create the new Liberal Arts Science Scholars program.

Our chemistry majors have gone on to successful careers and prestigious graduate schools, including: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Columbia University, Cornell University, PerkinElmer, University of California, Berkeley, University of California San Diego, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Virginia, Vanderbilt University, Vertex Pharmaceuticals and more.

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“Community-Based Learning (CBL) combines civic engagement with academic instruction, critical thinking, and reflection in a reciprocal relationship that benefits students, community partners, and faculty” (definition adapted from the Faculty Service-Learning Handbook, College of Southern Maryland)

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The Office of Corporate & Foundation (C&F) Relations builds and maintains relationships with corporate, foundation, and government funders for projects that advance St. Lawrence University’s mission and institutional priorities. A key role of the C&F Grants Office is to assist faculty members secure external funding for their teaching and scholarly endeavors. We provide assistance with identifying potential funding sources; developing, editing, and submitting proposals; and administering awards. We also serve as the institutional “sponsored research” office and UWC Campus Liaison Office.

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Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky. -Ronald E. McNair

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Please visit our website to see our daily menus, hours of operation, catering information, contact information for the dining team and much more! https://www.stlawu.edu/offices/dining-and-conference-services

As always, we are grateful for your patronage and look forward to serving our community this year!

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The economics curriculum is designed to familiarize the student with economic theory and “the economic way of thinking,” to provide knowledge about economic institutions, to foster the development of skills in applying economic analysis to contemporary issues, and to create a foundation for critical thinking, problem-solving, and intelligent engaged citizenship. The major provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to help solve today’s most challenging social and economic problems at a local, regional or global scale.

A major in economics opens up a wide range of career opportunities: from jobs in banking, finance, real estate, consulting, and insurance, to teaching, to entrepreneurial work in business or the non-profit sector. It also provides great preparation for law school or MBA or public policy graduate programs. Fields such as investment, finance, and banking are dotted with St. Lawrence alumni, who in the true Laurentian spirit, love working with our students, often leading to opportunities after graduation. A unique off-campus study program, the New York City Semester, also offers additional hands-on learning experiences that are especially valuable for economics majors.

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The Education Department prides itself on offering personalized mentoring to each student. If you are interested in education, we can create a plan of study that will allow you to explore your passion while discovering post-graduation opportunities that will allow you to put that passion to work. Look at our Instagram page to see what some of our graduates are doing and reach out to Jeff Frank or Jessica Sierk to discuss the educational studies minor.

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Students who major in English at St. Lawrence develop critical reading and writing skills, explore diverse cultural backgrounds and historical periods represented by literary works, produce (and sometimes publish!) their own creative work, and examine the relationships between literary art and life. They go on to apply this knowledge in a variety of careers: writing, editing, journalism, education, law, advertising, communications, public relations, and business.

Students can choose to major either in creative writing or literary studies. The major is founded on a fundamental belief that writing and literature infuse and enrich one another. For this reason, literary studies majors who focus on authors such as Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, and Toni Morrison also have the opportunity to write fiction, essays, and poems. Creative writing majors, meanwhile, work in two genres (including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and journalism) and also study topics such as environmental writing and multi-ethnic literature from across the United States.

Additional opportunities that await English majors include off-campus study (London and New York City are popular), an array of internship possibilities, student-run publications, summer fellowships to support independent literary study and creative writing, and honors projects to complete extended critical studies and book-length creative manuscripts. The writer studying literature develops a critical acumen that fosters sophistication of technique; the literary critic studying creative writing achieves an understanding of the ways an author thinks about craft. Our English department courses help students explore cultural backgrounds and values, examine the bonds between life and art, and discover the liberating qualities of the imagination.

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St. Lawrence is a diverse liberal arts learning community of inspiring faculty, serious students, accomplished alumni, and devoted employees guided by tradition and focused on the future.

The mission of St. Lawrence University is to provide an inspiring and demanding undergraduate education in the liberal arts to students selected for their seriousness of purpose and intellectual promise.

Unequivocal Commitment:
Consistent with this mission, St. Lawrence University has an unequivocal commitment to the health and safety of its employees, students and the community in which we work, teach and live.

University and Individual Responsibility:
Safety is everyone’s responsibility and is fostered at all levels at St. Lawrence University. In addition to our corporate social responsibility, each individual employee and student is trained to work safely and avoid placing themselves, co-workers, students, and the community at risk of harm. Each department has the responsibility for daily implementation of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) programs and the safety of employees and students. St. Lawrence University's senior leadership provides the resources, infrastructure, and expertise to develop and implement proactive, hazard-prevention EHS programs that are integrated into all aspects of the operation of the University.

Excellent Education, Safety Culture, and Good Values:
We believe that good values are fundamental to an excellent education and an exceptional safety culture. An effective EHS program reduces or eliminates occupational safety and environmental risks and nurtures a safety-oriented workplace. Holding fast to the University's mission, we strive to equip our employees and students for current and future challenges through our commitment to safety and environmental integrity.

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Rooted in an interdisciplinary environmental studies core, our program provides you with endless ways to customize a degree path that fits your interests. Interested in science journalism or nature writing? Combine environmental studies with English. Passionate about policy? Pursue a second major in government or economics.

As you explore the course options below, imagine the many ways you can make a positive impact on the world through your academic experience and future career.

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The mission of the department of facilities operations is to provide St. Lawrence University with safe, clean, attractive, and well maintained facilities, while providing quality services to students, faculty, staff, and visitors in a responsive, caring, and efficient manner.

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Film and Representation Studies is an interdisciplinary program designed to introduce students to the techniques of film analysis and the history and theory of the cinema, as well as to critically approach the nature of “representation” in audiovisual texts such television programming, advertising, music video, news and others. Program goals are to offer students courses that support a critical engagement with audio-visual media. Among the proficiencies Film and Representational Studies courses seek to develop are:

• An ability to critically deconstruct, analyze and interpret visual, audio-visual and Web-based texts. These include cinema, television, Web pages and other emergent media, advertising, news, music videos, multi-media, and other fictional, non-fictional and hybrid categories.

• An understanding of the politics of cultural representation around the categories of race, class, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, nationality and cultural heritage.

• A working understanding of theoretical perspectives that can be brought to bear on cinema and other forms of representations, including humanistic, feminist, Marxist, postcolonial, structural and post-structural, psychoanalytic, semiotic and audience reception.

• A deeper understanding of the craft of filmmaking through experiences with filmmaking.

Courses are offered within the program as well as in related departments.

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Our First-Year Program is one of the oldest living-learning programs in the country, helping students make successful transitions from high school to college, intellectually and socially, since 1987. In the fall semester, students live and study together in the First-Year Program course, developing the writing, speaking, and research skills needed for college. They continue to develop these skills in a spring First-Year Seminar.

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