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Western Oregon University is a public Liberal Arts college located in Monmouth, Oregon , USA , was established in 1856 by Oregon pioneers as "Monmouth University", a private college, and later merged with another private institution to become "Christian College." It became a state college called "Oregon State Normal School" in 1882. Subsequent names include "Oregon Normal School", "Oregon College of Education", and "Western Oregon State College." It is currently known as "Western Oregon University," and incorporates both the College of Education and the College of Liberial Arts and Sciences. Enrollment is approximately 5,000 students. Western Oregon University offers s are available in Education (MAT and MSEd); Master of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling (MS) and Music (MM). WOU's sports teams are called the Wolves and compete in the NCAA 's Great Northwest Athletic Conference at the Division II level. EDUCATION Western Oregon University's College of Education contains an American Sign Language program and an ASL/English Interpreting program. Many Deaf /hard of hearing students attend Western; a high percentage of students can sign. CREATIVE ARTS DIVISION The Creative Arts Division comprises departments in Art, Music and Theatre/Dance. The Music Department offers four degrees. The BA and BS in Music are Liberal Arts degrees with on third of all coursework in music. The Bachelor of Music in Contemporary Music is a professional degree with two thirds of all coursework in music. The Master of Music in Contemporary Music is perhaps the only degree of its kind in the US. Music programs at WOU are accredited by the National Association Of Schools Of Music (NASM). COMPUTER SCIENCE DIVISION The Computer Science Division covers the Computer Science and Information Systems Majors. The Computer Science Division offers both Majors and Minors in Computer Science and Information Systems, falling into BS and BA degrees. SPORTS Western Oregon is an NCAA Division II member institution and is part of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference . WOU sponsors 13 intercollegiate sports: football, women's volleyball, women's soccer, men's cross country, women's cross country, women's basketball, men's basketball, men's indoor track, women's indoor track, baseball, softball, men's outdoor track, and women's outdoor track. Western Oregon has NAIA national titles in women’s basketball and three second-place finishes in women’s volleyball. JENSEN ARCTIC MUSEUM Jensen Arctic Museum at WOU in Monmouth, Oregon (20 minutes west of Salem ) is the only museum on the west coast of the contiguous states dedicated to the arctic culture. The Jensen Arctic Museum was founded in 1985 by Dr. Paul H. Jensen. The Jensen collection is a significant portion of the museum's collection of artifacts. The museum's collections include art, animals, tools, apparel and information about indigenous arctic people. EXTERNAL LINKS
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