Departments and Programs
Vassar offers students a choice of four ways to proceed toward a degree which embodies an education that is personally significant. They are: concentration in a department; an interdepartmental program; a multidisciplinary program; or an individually tailored course of study in the independent program.
Departments
- Anthropology
- Art
- Athletics and Physical Education
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Chinese and Japanese
- Cognitive Science
- Computer Science
- Dance
- Drama
- Earth Science and Geography
- Economics
- Education
- English
- Film
- French and Francophone Studies
- German Studies
- Greek and Roman Studies
- Hispanic Studies
- History
- Italian
- Mathematics and Statistic
- Music
- Philosophy
- Physics and Astronomy
- Political Science
- Psychological Science
- Religion
- Russian Studies
- Sociology
Programs
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Interdepartmental
Interdepartmental programs are concentrations in which the concerns of two or more academic departments come together, under the supervision of participating faculty members.
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Multidisciplinary
Multidisciplinary programs concentrates on a single problem or series of problems that cannot be approached by one discipline alone.
- Africana Studies
- American Studies
- Asian Studies
- Environmental Studies
- Global Nineteenth-Century Studies
- International Studies
- Jewish Studies
- Latin American and Latinx Studies
- Media Studies
- Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- Neuroscience and Behavior
- Science, Technology and Society
- Urban Studies
- Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies
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Independent Program
Available to students who wish to elect an interdisciplinary field of concentration that is not provided by one of the regular departments, interdepartmental concentrations, or multidisciplinary programs.
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Accelerated and Dual Degree Programs