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Knowledge to lead. Skills to impact.
UND's College of Arts & Sciences programs give you the critical thinking, communicative and problem solving skills you need to succeed in a career that might not exist yet. Be future ready with our online or on-campus programs.
Fine Arts
Focus on 10+ areas - including everything from fibers and photography to mixed media and metalsmithing - in the region's largest and most complete art and design department.
Share your love for music at UND's immersive music program. Whether you want to become a music teacher, performer, or are just driven to earn a liberal arts education, there's a degree program for you.
Open your world to creative opportunities. From lighting design to acting, you'll explore every area of theater production while preparing for a career on - or behind - the stage.
Humanities
Literature helps us to understand a diverse range of human experiences and perspectives, enriching our lives. At the same time, with a degree in English, you will gain the communication and analytical skills you need to thrive in any career.
Studying history provides crucial insights into who we are and our origins. With American Indian Studies, you'll explore perspectives and cultures, histories, and contemporary experiences.
Prepare to engage in our multilingual and culturally diverse global community. With majors, minors, and certificates, your options are plentiful.
Explore the world's deep-held traditions and the fundamental human questions such as the meaning of life, the ability to live ethically, and the human quest for the sacred.
Broaden your understanding of the world and yourself with humanities classes directly tied to your major and career goals. Strengthen your skills to read closely, write clearly, speak with confidence, and contend with differing viewpoints and perspectives.
Math & Science
Impact the future of medicine, agriculture, genetic engineering, forensic science, and ecology. Conduct research as you refine your critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, and written and verbal skills.
Study the building blocks of the universe as you prepare for a career in scientific discovery. Almost every cutting-edge technology relies on the understanding of chemical principles.
Study the abstract world of mathematics. Besides understanding phenomena in science and engineering, a math degree can be a career gateway to data science or machine learning.
Specialize in general physics, applied physics, astrophysics, computers in physics, or materials science. We have a strong commitment to research, giving you real-world experience that gets noticed.
Social Sciences
Explore what it means to be human in the past, present and future.
Whether you want a career in writing, advertising, public relations, you'll learn teamwork, excellent oral and written communication, and the analytical skills employers want.
Gain experience by working with clients in our speech-language and hearing clinic. Plus, prepare for graduate study, which you'll need to work as a speech-language pathologist or audiologist.
Serve as an agent of change in our justice system. From enforcing the law to protecting your community, or advocating on behalf of victims, criminal justices opens the door to opportunities.
Choose community and urban development, environmental geography, and geography education. Or, with Environmental Studies. You'll lean to communicate about environmental issues and policy.
Study the intricacies of the human mind, exploring why people behave the way they do and learning how to evaluate and address a variety of psychological issues.
Dig deep into various human constructs such as our legal and educational systems, the economy, environment, families, and even social networks.
Interdisciplinary Programs
Study environmental issues and prepare for a rewarding career solving environmental problems.
Participate in hands-on learning and real-world experience in a cross-discipline education with a solid science background.
Personalize your education and take charge of your professional goals with a major that suits your wide-ranging interests.
Engage in an interdisciplinary education covering political perspectives, global awareness and a concentration in areas such as language & culture, human rights, gender studies, and more!
Tailor your bachelor's degree to prepare for the complexities of working as a health care professional.
Choose a major of your choice and design a well-rounded education to prepare for successful application to health professional schools in areas like medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary or chiropractic.
Combine your fields of interest and create your own unique program that will enable you to examine any issue from multiple diverse perspectives.
Explore the complex interaction of gender with other features of human difference such as race, class, religion, ethnicity, age, ability, sexuality and nationality, designing your own unique program drawing on cross-listed courses in social sciences and humanities.
Discover Liberal Arts
Tomorrow’s workers need to be able to communicate, interpret, and analyze the world they find, often working with others in highly interdisciplinary environments.
Why liberal arts?