{"id":49691,"date":"2016-10-31T10:47:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T14:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/about\/?page_id=49691"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:48:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:48:39","slug":"directory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/about\/directory\/","title":{"rendered":"Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"1\">Academic Majors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Majors marked with an asterisk (*) represent majors that are interdisciplinary in nature. These programs are administered by a committee of faculty from within the program and from other academic units within the College.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/africana\/\">Africana<\/a>*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/american-studies\/\">American Studies<\/a>*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/anthropology\/\">Anthropology<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/asian-studies\/\">Asian Studies<\/a>*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/chemistry-and-biochemistry\/\">Biochemistry<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/biology\/\">Biology<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/chemistry-and-biochemistry\/\">Chemistry<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/asian-studies\/\">Chinese<\/a>*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/classical-and-medieval-studies\/\">Classical and Medieval Studies<\/a>*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/theater-and-dance\/\">Dance<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/digital-and-computational-studies\/\">Digital and Computational Studies<\/a>*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/earth-and-climate-sciences\/\">Earth and Climate Sciences<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/economics\/\">Economics<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/physics-astronomy\/academics\/engineering\/\">Engineering<\/a>**<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/english\/\">English<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/environmental-studies\/\">Environmental Studies<\/a>*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/european-studies\/\">European Studies<\/a>*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/french-and-francophone-studies\/\">French and Francophone Studies<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/gender-and-sexuality-studies\/\">Gender and Sexuality Studies<\/a>*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/german-and-russian-studies\/\">German<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/hispanic-studies\/\">Hispanic Studies<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/history\/\">History<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/art-and-visual-culture\/\">History and Criticism of Art and Visual Culture<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.bates.edu\/\">Individual Interdisciplinary Major<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/asian-studies\/\">Japanese<\/a>*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/latin-american-and-latinx-studies\/\">Latin American and Latinx Studies<\/a>*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/mathematics\/\">Mathematics<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/music\/\">Music<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/neuroscience\/\">Neuroscience<\/a>*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/philosophy\/\">Philosophy<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/physics-and-astronomy\/\">Physics<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/politics\/\">Politics<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/psychology\/\">Psychology<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/religious-studies\/\">Religious Studies<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/rhetoric-film-and-screen-studies\/\">Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/sociology\/\">Sociology<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/art-and-visual-culture\/\">Studio Art<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/academics\/majors-and-minors\/theater-and-dance\/\">Theater<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>** Students who choose to participate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/physics-astronomy\/academics\/engineering\/\">Engineering Combined Plan<\/a> complete a portion of their education at Bates and a portion at one of our partner institutions: Case Western University, Columbia University, Dartmouth University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or Washington University in St. Louis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Digital and Computational Studies was approved as a 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