The College of Humanities and Natural Sciences includes a wide variety of classrooms, computers labs, and educational resources to help students in their path of learning. Whether, it's extensive collections of reference books or classrooms equipped with multimedia hardware, the college provides the resources you need. Some of our specialty facilities include:
English
The Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) writing center is located in room 100 Bobet Hall, located at the center of Loyola's main campus.
The Bobet writing center is equipped with 26 PCs. The applications available in the main writing center include Microsoft Office 2000 (including MS Word, Excel, Access, and Power Point), Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Publisher and FrontPage.
The Bobet writing center is open Monday through Friday year-round and some weekends. Call extension 2297 for exact hours.
A section of the main writing center doubles as an electronic classroom for workshops on computer-based writing, collaborative writing, and electronic research. Faculty members may reserve the 20-station facility for up to two weeks at a time per course for workshops. WAC staff are available to conduct workshops in writing with computers, researching on the Web, documenting sources, and other topics. When not in use as a classroom, this section of the center is open to students for writing, research, and tutorials.
The main writing center is staffed with peer-tutors during operating hours and serves over 1,000 students per month.
Languages and Cultures
Located in 114 Bobet Hall, the foreign language lab houses equipment and materials to support the learning and work of students in French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Japanese, Arabic, and Chinese. The lab has 5 computer stations and 6 carrels with audiotape & CD players. Please visit the lab and take advantage of the resources available there.
Mathematics
The Loyola Mathematics Center, commonly referred to as the "Math Lab," is a multimedia resource center for all Loyola math students. Well qualified students provide one-on-one tutoring for students from Math 092 (developmental math) through calculus, differential equations, linear algebra and discrete math. Interactive computer software is available to those who prefer these methods of assistance. Scientific Notebook, MATLAB, SPSS, Visual Basic, Java and other programs are available on our computers for the use of the students and staff. Textbooks, solutions manuals and other reference materials are available for almost all undergraduate math courses taught at Loyola.