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Our interdisciplinary program in African and African-American studies integrates the social sciences and humanities.

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Bachelor of Arts in African and African-American Studies(Minor)

The Program in American Sign Language at Rochester offers a major, minor, and several clusters in the humanities academic division. Our program prepares students for a variety of professions such as education, medicine, law, Deaf education, sign language interpreting, research, counseling, program administration, or community service.

Bachelor of Arts in American Sign Language(Minor)

The bachelor of arts (BA) in American studies offers students the opportunity to examine American history, culture, and social life within an interdisciplinary framework. This approach, drawing on faculty members in English, art and art history, political science, religion and classics, music, anthropology, philosophy, history, film and media studies, and modern languages and cultures, allows for especially rich explorations topics.

Bachelor of Arts in American Studies(Minor)

Anthropology is the study of cultural diversity, and many of our students spend a semester or more abroad.

Bachelor of Arts in Anthroplology(Minor)

ARBC 101 and 102, or the equivalent. Four courses of close textual analysis and interpretation, chosen from a wide range of Arabic texts, and read in the original language.

Bachelor of Arts in Arabic(Minor)

Join the Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures Program on Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at noon in the ME conference room, Hopeman 224 for a public lecture by Dr. David Givens, Director of Archaeology, Jamestown Rediscovery.Sponsored by the Archaeology, Technology, and Historical Structures Program and the Departments of History, Religion and Classics, and Mechanical Engineering. Refreshments will be served.

Bachelor of Arts in Archaelogy(Minor)

We offer a variety of approaches for art history majors, ones structured around your individual interests and career plans. Our students construct their studies with the aid and direction of the department advisor and a faculty sponsor, following three areas of concentration.

Bachelor of Arts in Art History(Minor)

To minor in astronomy, a student must attain an average of at least a 2.0 in all the introductory 100-level astronomy, physics and mathematics courses. Physics majors can minor in astronomy.

Bachelor of Arts in Astronomy(Minor)

This major requires 13 courses. The bioethics major leads to a bachelor of arts degree and satisfies the humanities requirement of the Rochester Curriculum.

Bachelor of Arts in Bioethics(Minor)

The undergraduate business program at the University of Rochester is designed in collaboration with Simon Business School—one of the nation’s leading graduate business schools. Simon faculty develop curricular, co-curricular and experiential learning opportunities for undergraduates. Additionally, students are able take courses taught by the same professors who teach our MBA and MS programs.

Bachelor of Arts in Business(Minor)

Standard Mandarin Chinese is the official language of both China and Taiwan. It is also one of Singapore's four official languages (along with English, Malay, and Tamil). The number of native speakers is quickly approaching one billion, making Mandarin Chinese by far the most widely spoken language in the world.

Bachelor of Arts in Chinese(Minor)

Students in this major will learn to analyze and interpret significant texts in the ancient languages and to understand their cultural context.Students can chose a major in classics (both languages), or in Greek (CGRK) or Latin (LATN) alone. All majors are encouraged to take at least one year of each language, if possible.

Bachelor of Arts in Classics(Minor)

Comparative Literature is the critical, interdisciplinary study of literatures, other media, and cultures from different geographic regions and linguistic groups and across different historical periods. In the broadest sense, it provides us with the tools to compare and contrast the experiences, identities, and material products of people in other places and other times. Central to comparative literature is a concern with how literature, culture and other media are both theorized and studied across historical periods and how different aspects of literature, culture and other media both inform and influence each other.

Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature(Minor)

The internationally recognized ensemble Kinetic Light performed at the Sloan Performing Arts Center as part of the group’s fall 2022 East Coast tour. Using art, technology, design, and dance, the artists create, perform, and teach at the intersections of access, queerness, disability, dance, and race.

Bachelor of Arts in Dance(Minor)

Bachelor of Arts in Historical Structures(Minor)

Bachelor of Arts in Technology(Minor)

The foundational requirement consists of four math courses, two courses is physics or two courses in computer science, and the basic computing requirement.

Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics

We require students to maintain a 2.0 grade point average (GPA) in the major, excluding allied field courses. See the advising page for information on how to declare your major, who your program advisor is, double majors, double degrees, petitioning for exceptions and more.

Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry

The Undergraduate Program in Biology and Medicine (UPBM) combines the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Medicine and Dentistry to offer undergraduate students interdisciplinary courses, lectures, laboratory work, specialty seminars, and research experiences.

Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences

We require students to maintain a 2.0 grade point average (GPA) in the major, excluding allied field courses. See the advising page for information on how to declare your major, who your program advisor is, double majors, double degrees, petitioning for exceptions and more

Bachelor of Science in Cell and Development Biology

Students who complete this minor will have a deep understanding of the following components of climate change science: Natural and anthropogenic causes of climate change Impacts of climate change on physical, chemical and biological processes in the atmosphere and oceans, and vice versa How the future climate is modeled and/or how past climate is measured and analyzed

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