莫里西艺术与科学学院是该大学历史最悠久，规模最大的本科学院。它根据主要学科提供文学学士（BA）或理学学士（BS）学位，并为其毕业生准备广泛领域的职业以及专业和学术领域的研究生培训。 br> <br>在通常情况下，建议学生遵循部门提供的正规教育计划。在极少数情况下，对于那些无法满足常规专业，双专业或主修与辅修要求的特殊兴趣的学生，教育政策委员会会批准跨学科的独立专业。希望申请独立专业的学生通常必须达到至少3.5 GPA。学生必须在教职顾问的帮助下计划36个学分的课程（通常为12个课程），其中30个必须为高等
Under usual circumstances, students are advised to follow the formal educational programs offered by departments. In rare instances, for students with special interests that cannot be satisfied in a regular major, double major, or a combined major and minor, the Educational Policy Committee will approve an interdisciplinary Independent Major. Students who wish to apply for an Independent Major must normally have achieved a minimum 3.5 GPA. The student must plan, with the aid of a faculty advisor, a program of 36 credits (ordinarily twelve courses), thirty of which must be in upper-division courses. These will extend over no more than three departments and will be selected in accordance with a clearly defined unifying principle. This program should be equal in depth and coherence to a typical departmental major and should include a plan for a final project or paper that demonstrates the intellectual coherence of the Independent Major and for ongoing assessment of the program by the student and the advisor. Each proposed major should be submitted to the Dean's Office before March 1 of the student's sophomore year. The Dean will then present it to the Educational Policy Committee for approval. An Independent Major will ordinarily be the student's only major.