Academic Departments and Schools

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Undergraduate courses usually offered in regular sessions of the University are listed in the following section.

This section does not include courses offered by the professional schools of Government, Law and Social Work. For those courses, refer to bulletins from those schools.

Although the Summer School offers many courses described here, the Summer School publishes a separate bulletin of course offerings.

The requirements for majors and minors are shown in connection with the materials concerning the various departments.

The work of the University is arranged and offered on the semester system, the regular session being divided into two approximately equal parts called the fall and spring semesters. The Summer School is divided into two sessions.

Work is valued and credited toward degrees by semester hours, one such hour usually being awarded for each class meeting per week for a semester. One hour of credit is usually awarded for each three hours of laboratory or field work or work in studio art. In the following lists of courses, the numbers in parentheses after the descriptive titles show the credits allowed in semester hours.

Division of Continuing Education

Academic Schools

Division of Academic Affairs

Kenan-Flagler Business School
School of Education
School of Information and Library Science
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Summer School

Division of Health Affairs

School of Dentistry
School of Medicine
School of Nursing
School of Pharmacy
School of Public Health

Academic Departments and Curricula

Department of Aerospace Studies
Department of African Studies and Afro-American Studies
Curriculum in American Studies
Department of Anthropology
Curriculum in Applied and Materials Sciences
Department of Art
Department of Asian Studies
Astronomy
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Department of Biology
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology
Department of Chemistry
Department of City and Regional Planning
Department of Classics
Department of Communication Studies
Department of Computer Science
Curriculum in Contemporary European Studies
Department of Dramatic Art
Cultural Studies
Department of Economics
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Environmental Science and Studies
Department of Exercise and Sport Science
Curriculum in Folklore
French
Department of Geography
Department of Geological Sciences
Department of Germanic Languages
Department of History
Interdisciplinary Studies
Curriculum in International and Area Studies
Italian
Latin
Latin American Studies
Department of Linguistics
Curriculum in Management and Society
Department of Marine Sciences
Department of Mathematics
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Department of Military Science
Department of Music
Department of Naval Science
Department of Operations Research
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense
Department of Philosophy
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Department of Political Science
Portuguese
Department of Psychology
Department of Public Policy
Department of Religious Studies
Department of Romance Languages
Curriculum in Russian and East European Area Studies
Department of Slavic Languages
Department of Sociology
Spanish
Department of Statistics and Operations Research
Curriculum in Women's Studies

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