The college's 20 departments cover the arts, humanities and natural and social sciences. All of our departments offer a rigorous, distinctive learning environment that emphasizes a personalized education with opportunities for undergraduate research, scholarship and creative activity and individual faculty-led advising.
Each major builds on USD's core curriculum, which develops indispensable competencies, explores traditions of thought and belief and explores the future of the liberal arts and the diversity of human experience.
- Programs
College of Arts and Sciences (CAS)
- Africana StudiesMinor
- AnthropologyBA and Minor
- ArabicCertificate
- ArchitectureBA and Minor
- Art HistoryBA and Minor
History of Art and Architecture Emphasis
Museum and Curatorial Practice Emphasis
History and Theory of the Moving Image and Media Art Emphasis - Asian StudiesMinor
- BiochemistryBS
- BiologyBS and Minor
- Biomedical EthicsMinor
- BiophysicsBS or BA
- Catholic Theology and Ministry CertificateCertificate
- ChangemakingMinor
- ChemistryBS and Minor
- ChineseMinor
- Classical StudiesMinor
- Cognition and BehaviorBS
- Cognitive ScienceMinor
- CommunicationBA and Minor
- Community Engagement CertificateCertificate
- Creative WritingMinor
- Elementary or Special EducationCertificate
- Embedded EthicsCertificate
- EnglishBA and Minor
Emphasis available in:
Creative Writing - Environmental Studies and PolicyMinor
- Environmental and Ocean SciencesBS or BA and Minor
Pathways:
Environmental Science
Environmental Studies
Marine Ecology
- Ethnic StudiesBA and Minor
- Film StudiesMinor
- Food StudiesMinor
- French and Francophone StudiesBA and Minor
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)Certificate
- GermanMinor
- HistoryBA and Minor
- Individualized MajorBA
- Interdisciplinary HumanitiesBA
- International RelationsBA and Minor
- ItalianMinor
- Italian StudiesBA
- Latin American StudiesMinor
- Law, Justice and SocietyMinor
- Liberal StudiesBA
Concentrations:
Art - Visual Arts
Communication
History
Life Science
Literature
Marine Biology
Mathematics
Multicultural Studies
Music
Psychology
Spanish Language and Latinx American Cultures
Theatre
- MathematicsBA and Minor
Emphasis available in:
Applied Mathematics
Secondary Education - Medieval and Renaissance StudiesMinor
- MusicBA and Minor
Emphasis available in:
Composition
History and Culture
Performance
Teaching and Learning
Theory
- NeuroscienceBS
- PhilosophyBA and Minor
- Philosophy, Politics and EconomicsMinor
- PhysicsBS or BA and Minor
Emphasis available in:
Applied Scientific Computing
Physics and Engineering Double Major - Political ScienceBA and Minor
- PsychologyBA and Minor
- Public RelationsMinor
- Secondary EducationCertificate
- SociologyBA and Minor
Concentrations:
Law, Crime, Justice
Social Justice
- SpanishBA and Minor
- Technologies and SocietyMinor
- TheatreBA and Minor
- Theology and Religious StudiesBA and Minor
- Visual ArtsBA and Minor
Visual Arts
Film, Performance + Media Art
- Women's and Gender StudiesMinor