Academic Departments and Schools
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, medicine, and social work. For those courses, refer to bulletins from those schools. Although Summer School offers many courses described here, it publishes a separate bulletin of course offerings.
The requirements for majors and minors are shown in connection with information pertaining to the various schools, departments, and curricula.
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. Summer School within Academic Affairs offers two sessions of five weeks each, a three-week Maymester, and other short courses with various beginning and ending dates.
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
School of Information and Library Science
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Gillings School of Global Public Health
Academic Departments and Curricula
Department of Aerospace Studies
Department of African Studies and Afro-American Studies
Department of American Studies
Curriculum in Applied Sciences and Engineering
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology
Department of City and Regional Planning
Department of Communication Studies
Department of Computer Science
Curriculum in Contemporary European Studies
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology
Department of Exercise and Sport Science
Department of Geological Sciences
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Curriculum in Latin American Studies
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Department of Military Science
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Department of Political Science
Department of Religious Studies
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Department of Statistics and Operations Research