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List of Majors, Minors & Certificates

Majors/Degrees

Explore our academic majors, minors, certificates, and graduate degrees. Our degrees in languages, the humanities, area studies, and the arts immerse you in the liberal and creative arts with rigorous training, opportunities for independent study, and research.

We are grounded and guided by the humanities and arts, yet also focus on practical skills for twenty-first century careers which require the ability to think and act independently, draw on a broad set of design and critical thinking skills, and work in teams and groups.

National studies prove that our majors do just as well in careers and the job market as other university majors. Creative and liberal arts majors are found widely throughout the work world, including education, law, business and finance, and even public health and medicine, as students discover their liberal arts undergraduate majors are either excellent stand-alone degrees or serve as springboards to professional school training at the graduate level.

Field of Study Undergraduate Degrees Minor Undergraduate Certificate Graduate Degrees Graduate Certificates
American Studies BA Yes -- MA, PhD --
Art BA, BFA Yes -- MFA --
Art History BA Yes -- MA --
Asian Studies BA Yes -- MA, BAM** --
Asian International Affairs -- -- -- MAIA --
Chinese BA Yes Yes -- --
Chinese Studies -- -- -- -- Yes
Cinematic Arts BA -- -- -- --
Classics -- -- Yes -- --
Dance -- Yes -- -- --
East Asian Languages and Literatures -- -- -- MA, PhD, BAM** --
English BA Yes -- MA, PhD --
Filipino -- Yes Yes -- --
French -- Yes -- -- --
German Studies -- Yes -- -- --
Health Humanities -- Yes -- -- --
Hindi -- -- Yes -- --
History BA Yes -- MA, PhD --
Ilokano -- Yes Yes -- --
Indonesian -- -- Yes -- --
Islamic Studies -- -- Yes -- --
Japanese BA Yes Yes -- --
Japanese Studies -- -- -- -- Yes
Khmer (Cambodian) -- -- Yes -- --
Korean BA Yes Yes -- --
Korean Studies -- -- -- -- Yes
Languages & Literatures of Europe & the Americas BA -- -- -- --
Latin America & Iberian Studies -- Yes -- -- --
Linguistics BA* Yes -- MA, PhD --
Museum Studies -- -- -- -- Yes
Music BA, BMUS Yes Yes MA, MMus, PhD --
Pacific Island Studies BA -- -- MA, BAM** Yes
Philippine Language and Culture BA -- -- -- --
Philippine Studies -- -- -- -- Yes
Philosophy BA Yes -- MA, PhD Yes
Philosophy for Children -- Yes -- -- --
Religious Traditions of Asia and the Pacific -- -- -- MA --
Religious Traditions & Ancient Civilizations BA -- -- BAM** --
Russian -- -- Yes -- --
Samoan -- -- Yes -- --
Sanskrit -- -- Yes -- --
Second Language Studies BA Yes -- MA, PhD, BAM** Yes
Second Language Teaching -- Yes -- -- --
South Asian Studies -- -- -- -- Yes
Southeast Asian Studies -- -- -- -- Yes
Spanish -- Yes -- MA --
Tahitian -- -- Yes -- --
Thai -- -- Yes -- --
Theatre -- Yes -- -- --
Theatre & Dance BA, BFA -- -- MA, MFA, PhD --
Vietnamese -- -- Yes -- --
Note:
BA*: track in Interdisciplinary Studies
BAM** : refers to the Bachelor's and Master's combined pathway program.