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 Statistics
- 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
The Independent Program is 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