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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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Ready to transform your life and make a difference? At UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, you’ll join a diverse community working to solve real-world problems and explore life’s biggest questions.

Choose from more than 50 majors and thousands of courses across the Storrs and regional campuses. With everything from climate change to culture, neuroscience to news, health to human rights—all in one college—it’s easy to explore your interests and design a path that’s truly your own. 

Along the way, you’ll learn from world-class professors, get support from academic advisors, and gain experience through a wide range of hands-on opportunities. You’ll develop skills that employers and graduate schools value and build a strong foundation for whatever comes next. 

Available Majors and Tracks

Africana Studies

American Sign Language Studies

American Studies

Anthropology

Applied Data Analysis

Arabic and Islamic Civilizations

Biological Sciences

Chemistry

Chinese

Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies

  • Classics
  • Ancient Mediterranean Studies

Cognitive Science

Communication

Earth Sciences

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Economics

Engineering Physics

English

  • Creative Writing
  • Cultural Studies/Media Studies
  • English Teaching
  • Irish Literature
  • Literary Histories and Legacies
  • Literature of Place and Environment
  • Literature, Anti-racism, and Social Justice
  • Writing and Composition Studies

Environmental Sciences

  • Sustainable Systems
  • Global Change
  • Environmental Health

Environmental Studies

French and Francophone Studies

General Studies

Geographic Information Science

Geography

German

History

Human Development and Family Sciences

  • Early Childhood Development and Education

Human Rights

Individualized Major

Italian Literary and Cultural Studies

Journalism

Judaic Studies

Latino and Latin American Studies

Linguistics/Philosophy

Linguistics/Psychology

Marine Sciences*

Maritime Studies*

Mathematics

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Mathematics Teaching
  • Pure Mathematics

Mathematics/Actuarial Science

Mathematics/Actuarial Science/Finance

Mathematics/Physics

Mathematics/Statistics

Molecular and Cell Biology

Philosophy

Physics

  • Applied
  • General

Physiology and Neurobiology

Political Science

Psychological Sciences

  • Research Track
  • Standard Track

Sociology

Spanish

Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

Statistical Data Science

Statistics

Structural Biology and Biophysics

Urban and Community Studies

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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