Majors and Minors

As an Arabic minor, you will engage with Arabic-speaking cultures from day one and keep improving your language skills until graduation and beyond.

In the Art, Science, and Innovation program, you'll prepare to become a cultural innovator and critical maker who can produce works of visual art that transcend disciplinary boundaries.

The Art Department embraces, encourages, and promotes diverse perspectives using the cultural power of art to catalyze change.

Astronomy is more than the study of the constellations — you'll develop an appreciation of the beauty and order of the known universe.

Biochemistry encourages you to engage with science by integrating biology, chemistry, and physics in innovative ways.

Study the astonishing variety, and complexity, of living things on Earth.

As a Black Studies student, you'll prepare to become a scholar and engaged member of local and global Black communities.

We’ll equip you with analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills that you'll apply in internships and other career-building opportunities.

Our Chemistry program sets students on a path of mastery of fundamental concepts of matter and provides hands-on lab experience.

Explore the ever-changing field of communication with developed cultural awareness.

As a Community and Justice Studies student, you'll learn about systems of power and inequality, engage with communities, and graduate ready to build a more just and egalitarian world.

A program focusing on computational theory and the rich interplay between computer hardware and software.

Dance and Movement Studies provides an experiential program that explores the relationship of movement to self, culture, and environment.

Data Science focuses on the study of integrated principles and methods to analyze complex big data for decision making, prediction, modeling, and data management.

You'll learn analytical and problem-solving abilities as you study how and why incentives influence the choices that people make.

You'll expand your pathways — and potential — by learning from political, historical, cultural, and psychological perspectives.

You'll engage with political, economic, cultural, and scientific aspects of energy at local to global scales.

As an English student, you’ll grow to recognize the ideas and perspectives that shape our lives. Choose from either a creative writing or literature concentration.

You'll gain insights and abilities to make the world more environmentally sound, equitable, just, and sustainable.

Students engage content, methods, and practices with faculty in order to develop the capacity to use film as a medium to communicate compelling fictional and documentary narratives.

Students completing this microcredential will be able to produce technically advanced films that effectively leverage technique toward expressing an underlying conceptual or narrative objective.

As a Global Health Studies student, you'll learn to play an essential role in addressing the world’s health challenges — preparing for a rewarding future through hands-on learning, civic engagement, and diverse, international perspectives.

Healthcare Management is the study of the healthcare industry in all sectors. It emphasizes an understanding of the U.S. healthcare system, including the organization and delivery of preventive health and healthcare services. Students will develop a deep understanding of theories, tools, and research methods needed to investigate and address complex and evolving challenges.

Rather than asking what happened, we ask how we know. Hone in on research and writing skills to better understand the complex relationship between the past and present to prepare for your future.

The industrial design major complements the College’s Art, Science and Innovation programs. In this major, not typically offered at an undergraduate level in a liberal arts context, students work at the intersection of art, design and practical problem-solving to produce innovative products that engage with emerging technological and cultural trends to develop design solutions. Technologies explored include robotics, artificial intelligence, modeling software, and production techniques such as 3D printing and CNC machining.

A program focusing on critical approaches to information and technology, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary methods. Students develop ethical and technical frameworks and apply them to a wide-ranging set of culturally-relevant problems in order to enrich the public understanding of the relationship between information and culture.

We prepare globally-minded graduates for international-facing careers. Explore global issues and how nations and regions interact around the world. Examine the influence of history, international politics, economy and development, and culture. Study a language and study abroad. Do it through an interdisciplinary lens.

In Jewish Studies, we examine the religion, culture, and history of the Jewish people. You'll gain an in-depth understanding of the experience and vital contributions of the Jewish people as an integral part of Western civilization and world history, and of Judaism as the matrix of the West’s religious foundations and thought.

As a Journalism and Documentary Storytelling student, you'll combine practical training in journalism with examination of the sociopolitical role of journalism. You'll consider what it means to be a responsible citizen in a journalistic context.

Combine the humanities and social sciences to the study of languages and experience in the Latin American and Caribbean region.

The Mathematics Department at Allegheny College instills in our students an appreciation of the power, utility, and beauty of mathematics. Our curriculum not only introduces students to major areas of mathematical thought, but also develops critical thinking and communication skills that will enable students to become lifelong learners and problem solvers.

Take a multifaceted approach to studying the language, history, politics, religion, culture, and economics of the Middle East and North African region. You can design this minor to complement your other coursework, interests, and career goals.

Music courses accommodate a wide variety of backgrounds so that students can either begin or continue their musical journey.

Study the brain and nervous system, drawing upon biology and psychology and exploring areas such as development, sensation and perception, behavior, cognition, learning and memory, movement, sleep, and stress. You'll gain research, analytical, and communication abilities valued by employers and graduates schools alike.

Philosophy inquires into structures that form the basis of all that exists, the ways we can justify our claims to knowledge, and the values and goals that guide individuals and societies.

From spacecraft to polymers, physics requires the integration of other fields. While everyone has the same foundation, majors pick an interdisciplinary track to meet their interests and goals, making our curriculum as individual as our students.

Explore politics, public policy, and political behavior in the U.S. and around the world. As a political science student, you'll investigate and debate enduring values and issues — like freedom, justice, and power — while learning to solve problems facing society today.

There are many paths that you can take on your journey to a health professional school. At Allegheny you can achieve your core of science and English courses while pursuing any academic major. You don't need to apply right away, and students can choose to spend a semester or year abroad.

Pre-law students study a broad-based curriculum at Allegheny in order to develop skills that are absolutely crucial for law school and law careers.

As a Psychology student, you'll delve into human thought and behavior, blending paradigms and new ways of understanding. You'll gain problem-solving, analytical, and interpersonal abilities that will set the stage for your future in a wide variety of rewarding careers.

Public Humanities makes specialized knowledge accessible to diverse public audiences.

Explore religious rituals, practices, and systems of thought. Religious Studies helps us see the continually evolving relationship of individuals and communities within those traditions as well as the role of religion in a complex global context.

A program focusing on the knowledge and skills that teams and individuals need to develop and maintain large-scale software systems. Students apply engineering principles and industry-standard software tools to design, implement, test, release, and enhance software for real-world customers.

Our Spanish program will engage you with Spanish-speaking culture from day one and will keep improving your language skills until graduation and beyond. Along the way, you'll learn to solve problems by reflecting on and analyzing the deep connection between language and culture.

Allegheny Theatre students learn to engage critically and creatively with the wider culture that surrounds them, producing original work and developing skills to connect with audiences in compelling ways.

Explore gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, abilities, socioeconomic status, nationality, and religion as central formations in communication & media, law & policy, health & wellbeing, education & scientific inquiry, and visual, performative, and creative arts. You'll work with faculty and students across campus to think creatively about how to address some of the most pressing issues we face in the 21st-century–from climate change to health disparities, reproductive justice to (im)migration, and from gendered violence to LGBTQ+ rights.

Explore creative writing in the areas of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction--and craft your unique voice to stand out and harness the creative powers of language.