Carleton College
Bachelor degree
African/African American Studies | |
The program in African/African American Studies provides a cross cultural and comparative framework for systematically studying the traditions and experiences of Africans in the New and Old worlds. Students in this program are encouraged to develop their analytic, research and literary skills through... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
American Studies | |
American Studies (AMST) has been the home for the interdisciplinary study of American culture at Carleton since the 1950s. It is not a department, but rather a place where faculty from a great variety of departments can come together to study and teach aspects of American culture. Here it is not our... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Archaeology Concentration (ARCN) | |
Archaeology is an interdisciplinary study of material artifacts in their cultural and environmental context. The introductory and core courses of the concentration are designed to give students a methodological introduction to these three elements of artifacts, culture, and environment. In the supporting... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Art History | |
Art History majors are encouraged to take advantage of off-campus study programs such as that in Florence (Art History 238).
Course Requirements
1.Eight 6-credit art history courses. These should normally include the
two terms of the introductory course sequence (ARTH 101 and 102) and
at least... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Asian Studies | |
The major in Asian Studies is interdisciplinary and regionally-focused. It is especially suitable for students with an overriding interest in one or more regions of Asia whose academic needs cannot be met by majoring in a regular department. Students who do major in regular departments may concentrate... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Astronomy and Astrophysics | |
Physics can be as basic as gravity and light, as strange as Einstein's theory of relativity, as other-worldly as Hilbert space, and as elusive as quarks. It is the study of the properties, transformations, and interactions of matter and energy--the search for unifying principles to explain the diverse... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Biochemistry | |
The biochemistry program at Carleton rests on the close cooperation between the Departments of Biology and Chemistry. Emerging as a recognized discipline early in the last century, biochemistry has grown into a vast subject that spans several established disciplines. It serves as the link between the... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Biology | |
The distribution requirements for the biology major expose the student to many biological disciplines. By the time of graduation, the biology major should be familiar with the form, physiology, heredity, development, evolution, and ecological relationships of a variety of organisms.
The successful completion... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Carleton Chemistry | |
A major in Chemistry consists of the following courses:
Chemistry 123 or 128 Principles of Chemistry or Environmental Chemistry
Chemistry 230 Equilibrium and Analysis
Chemistry 233 Organic Chemistry I
Chemistry 234 Organic Chemistry II
Chemistry 343 Chemical Thermodynamics
Chemistry 344 Quantum Chemistry
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Chemistry (American Chemical Society ) | |
The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a professional society for chemists that has provided guidelines to baccalaureate institutions on best practices for teaching chemistry to undergraduate students. An ACS certified chemistry major requires more advanced study within the chemistry department. Students... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Cinema and Media Studies | |
The Cinema and Media Studies Department major combines the critical study of film and media with hands-on media production, reflecting a liberal arts philosophy in which critical thinking and creative making are mutually informing.
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Classical Languages | |
This is an excellent liberal arts major. The prototypical interdisciplinary field, Classical Studies combines work in language, history, culture, and literature of the ancient world. This major provides a very useful background for further work in philosophy, art history, ancient religion, medieval studies,... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Classical Studies | |
This is an excellent liberal arts major. The prototypical interdisciplinary field, Classical Studies combines work in language, history, culture, and literature of the ancient world. This major provides a very useful background for further work in philosophy, art history, ancient religion, medieval studies,... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Cognitive Science | |
Cognitive Science examines different approaches to questions concerning the nature of mind, the representation of knowledge, the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language, the development of learning and intelligence, the use of information to draw inferences and make decisions, and the... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Computer Science | |
The ever-increasing role of computers and their applications in our society has established the need for professional computer scientists who have a grounding in the liberal arts as well as a specialty computer science. A student majoring in computer science at Carleton will be able to write well-organized,... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Cross-Cultural Studies | |
The concentration brings together international students and students from the U.S. who have cross-cultural experience to address and explore regional and global issues in team-taught, interdisciplinary seminars in a comparative framework.
It is designed to help students who are studying a particular... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Dance | |
Overview
Dance activities at Carleton are designed to give students of all levels opportunities for active participation in three basic areas: technique, choreography and analysis, and performance. The broadest goal of these offerings is to increase understanding of the art of dance as a contribution... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
East Asian Studies | |
With the world's most populous nations and some of its largest economies, East Asia is a region of growing significance. It consists of areas encompassed by present day China, Japan, and Korea (and sometimes also Mongolia, Myanmar, Siberia, and Vietnam). The concentration consists of a program of study... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Educational Studies | |
The Educational Studies Concentration provides an interdisciplinary approach to the study of education as an individual pursuit, an institutional venture, and a societal problem. The concentration aims to develop thoughtful, skillful and imaginative students of the psychology, cultural history, and politics... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
English | |
Our curriculum balances the classic literatures of the past with the varied idioms of the present. We offer majors and non-majors a range of topics and approaches to the study of literature:
classical studies in the English and American literary tradition organized by historical periods, topics, and... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Environmental and Technology Studies (ENTS) | |
The Environmental and Technology Studies program brings faculty and students together from a broad range of academic departments and backgrounds to address scientific, economic, ethical, social, political, historical and aesthetic dimensions of the environment. This truly integrated, multidisciplinary... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
European Studies Concentration | |
Requirements for the Concentration
1. EUST 110: Introduction to European Studies
2. Four transnational supporting courses that a) approach a theme or issue from a pan-European perspective OR b) compare European countries or regions OR c) compare Europe (or parts of Europe) with another part of... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
French and Francophone Studies | |
The French and Francophone Studies Department sees language as fundamental to the study of literatures and cultures. Committed to helping students attain proficiency in the language sequence (FREN 101-204), the Department strives at all levels to introduce students to the rich and complex endeavors of... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Geology | |
Students who discover in themselves a sense of excitement about the environment, mountains, climate change, volcanoes, fossils, rivers and earthquakes, will find a good home in the Carleton Geology Department. Founded by Dr. Laurence M. Gould, former President of the College and one of the first geologists... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
German | |
In our changing global environment, communication is the key to understanding other peoples and cultures. After your first year of German at Carleton, you will have the oral proficiency to live and study in a German-speaking country. Our programs in Berlin, and Vienna, offer choices in location. See... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
History | |
OBJECTIVES AND DEFINITION OF THE MAJOR
The objectives of the History major have both a general educational aspect and an aspect that is more narrowly professional. On one level, work in the major develops skills of research, analysis, and expression; on another level, it introduces the student to some... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Latin American Studies | |
The Latin American Studies Program provides a framework for studying the diverse societies of Latin America. With its cultural mosaic shaped by the meeting of Native American, European, African, and Asian peoples, and its profound geographic, social, and economic variations, Latin America presents rich... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Linguistics | |
We here in the Linguistics Program may be biased, but we think linguistics is an ideal major at a liberal arts college. Our program examines significant aspects of human nature at several levels and via a number of methodologies. We look at human beings as expert learners and manipulators of extraordinarily... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Mathematics | |
The Carleton mathematics major is designed to reflect the depth and diversity of modern mathematics. We seek to provide you with an accurate picture of the nature of mathematics itself and of its connections to other disciplines. Specifically, in our courses, seminars, colloquia, and other activities,... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Medieval and Renaissance Studies | |
The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Concentration encourages students interested in the cultures and kingdoms that flourished from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance (roughly 4th -17th centuries C.E.) to deepen their understanding of these periods through an interdisciplinary program of study. The... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Music | |
The course of study for music majors is best accomplished if spread over three or four years, so prospective majors are advised to begin The Music of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms (MUSC 110) and the theory sequence as first-year students or sophomores. It is possible to begin the major as late as the end... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Neuroscience | |
Neuroscience emerged as a scientific discipline in the latter part of the 19th century as microscopy advances finally allowed scientists to explore the fine structure of the nervous system. In the 1960s neuroscience acquired a strongly interdisciplinary flavor as a number of scientists realized that... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Philosophy | |
Overview
Contemporary philosophy deals with an enormous range of questions and issues. This includes questions that are traditionally associated with philosophy: "What is the nature of the world I live in?" "What kind of life ought I to lead?" "What can I know?" But philosophy also addresses issues such... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Physics | |
Physics can be as basic as gravity and light, as strange as Einstein's theory of relativity, as other-worldly as Hilbert space, and as elusive as quarks. It is the study of the properties, transformations, and interactions of matter and energy--the search for unifying principles to explain the diverse... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Political Economy (POEC) | |
The study of political economy involves issues that range from the analysis of American public policy, globalization, comparative national economic policies, the relationship of micro-level to macro-level activity, and the ways that public and private choices affect one another.
Requirements for the... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Political Science | |
The Department of Political Science at Carleton College is large, with a wider range of courses than usually found in a small liberal arts college. With an active faculty of eleven Ph.D.'s, we teach courses in most areas of American government, constitutional law, comparative political systems, international... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Psychology | |
Goals of the Major
The goals of the Psychology major are:
1) to provide you with a strong background in psychology, and
2) to contribute to a development of analysis, expression, and understanding that may benefit you.
We attempt to achieve the first goal by offering a wide range of basic courses... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Romance Languages | |
In the Romance Languages & Literatures Department we offer majors in French, French and Francophone Studies, Spanish, and Romance Languages & Literature. The major in Romance Languages and Literatures is a demanding program of study for students with a solid background in both French and Spanish. It... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Russian | |
Our major requirements are flexible enough to allow students to focus on a particular area of interest. While some choose a traditional literature major, others pursue advanced course work in such fields as history, anthropology and art history. Off-campus study counts towards fulfillment of both major... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Sociology and Anthropology | |
Sociology and anthropology are closely related disciplines that aim to understand patterns of human social life in all their historical and current diversity. We seek to understand how people live, think, feel, and believe, not only in our own society but in all the myriad human cultures of the world.... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
South Asian Studies | |
South Asia, which contains nearly a quarter of the world's people, refers to the countries comprising the South Asian subcontinent: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and sometimes Afghanistan, Myanmar, and Tibet. The concentration consists of a program of study combining language... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Spanish | |
Given today's scientific, information-based, high-tech world, why would anyone study Spanish? There are some obvious career opportunities associated with studies in Spanish (either as a major or as a secondary field of study), including such fields as teaching and translating. Most people, however do... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Studio Art | |
Pre-requisites
For studio art, all 200-level classes require a pre-requisite class. Observational drawing may be used as a pre-requisite for ALL 200-level classes. Introduction to Sculpture may be used as a pre-requisite for 200-level ceramics and metals classes as well as 300-level sculpture and woodworking... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Theater | |
Students who major in theater at Carleton may choose from an array of courses in production, theater literature, history and criticism. We believe our majors should have a foundation in all the major areas of the theater as well as, eventually, at least one area of expertise. The senior year comprehensive... |
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Carleton College
Bachelor degree
Women's and Gender Studies | |
The Women's and Gender Studies Program provides an interdisciplinary meeting ground for exploring questions about women and gender that are transforming knowledge across disciplinary lines in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Its goal is to include gender, along with class, sexual... |
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