
Departments and Areas of Study
The College is the home of twenty-one departments, ranging from the fine arts and humanities to the social and natural sciences. Four interdepartmental majors and seven interdepartmental programs provide further breadth to the choices in the College curriculum. Students may earn either the B.A. or B.S. degree in 37 different majors, and may also pursue one or more of 29 minors, including Creative Writing, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Museum Studies, Film and Visual Culture, Poverty Studies, or one of five new minors in Biology (Animal Biology, Ecology, Molecular Cell Biology, Physiology, and Quantitative Biology).
All entering undergraduates are members of the College, and most fulfill the Foundation and Distribution requirements for graduation by taking a wide range of courses across the liberal arts during their first two years.
Below you will find links to the various departments and interdepartmental and special programs offered by the College.
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- Africana Studies Program
- Anthropology and Sociology Department
- Arabic
- Art and Art History Department
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- Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
- Chinese (East Asian Languages and Literatures Department)
- Classics Department
- Cognitive and Behavioral Science
- Comparative Literature
- Computer Science Department
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- Earth and Environmental Geoscience
- East Asian Languages and Literatures Department
- East Asian Studies Program
- Education Studies
- Engineering (Physics and Engineering Department)
- English Department
- Environmental Studies Program
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- Geology (Earth and Environmental Geoscience Department)
- German Department
- Global Discovery Laboratories
- Greek (Classics Department)
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- Languages at W&L (World Languages)
- Latin (Classics Department)
- Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
- Law, Justice, and Society
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- Mass Communications (Journalism and Mass Communications Department)
- Mathematics Department
- Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
- Middle East and South Asia Studies Program
- Music Department
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- Philosophy Department
- Physical Education Department
- Physics and Engineering Department
- Portuguese (Romance Languages Department)
- Poverty Studies
- Pre-Health Professions
- Pre-Law Advising
- Pre-Med
- Psychology (Cognitive and Behavioral Science Department)
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- Religion Department
- Renaissance Studies (Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program)
- Romance Languages Department
- Russian Department (East European and Russian Studies)
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- Shepherd Poverty Program
- Sociology and Anthropology Department
- Spanish (Romance Languages Department)