Majors & Minors
CC's breadth of educational options distinguishes us from many other schools. You'll eventually focus on at least one academic discipline in-depth, but you'll have more than 80 majors, minors, and specialized programs to choose from. If you want to concentrate on more than one department, there are several combined or distributed majors, and even a self-defined major. If you decide to focus on significant themes from several disciplines, opt for a thematic minor. If you'd like to learn more about a major or program, feel free to browse the academic department websites.
Majors
- Anthropology
- Art
- Asian Studies
- Business, Economics, and Society (BESoc)
- Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Classics
- Classics-English
- Classics-History-Politics
- Comparative Literature
- Computer Science
- Economics
- Education
- English
- Environmental Studies and Science
- Feminist and Gender Studies
- Film and Media Studies
- French
- Geology
- German
- Hispanic Studies
- History
- History-Philosophy
- History-Political Science
- Independently Designed Major/IDM
- International Political Economy
- Italian
- Mathematical Economics
- Mathematics
- Molecular Biology
- Music
- Neuroscience
- Organismal Biology and Ecology
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies
- Religion
- Russian and Eurasian Studies
- Sociology
- Southwest Studies
- Theatre and Dance
Departmental Minors
- Anthropology
- Art
- Asian Studies
- Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Chinese
- Classics
- Comparative Literature
- Computer Science
- Education
- English
- Environmental Studies
- Feminist and Gender Studies
- French
- German
- History
- Human Biology and Kinesiology
- Italian
- Japanese
- Mathematics
- Molecular Biology
- Music
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Political Science
- Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies
- Religion
- Russian and Eurasian Studies
- Spanish and Portuguese
- Southwest Studies
- Theatre and Dance
Thematic Minors
Thematic minors focus your education on significant themes examined from several disciplinary perspectives. They reflect the belief of Colorado College that, in addition to the more specialized major, you need to gain experience in comparing and connecting ideas and approaches across the disciplines. For this reason, thematic minors are designed to end with an integrative experience in which you bring together much of what you have learned in the minor. Successful completion of a thematic minor will be recorded on your official transcript.
Thematic Minors
- African-American Studies
- African Studies
- Arabic, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
- Book Studies
- Contemporary French Studies
- European Studies
- Global Health
- Indigenous Studies
- Journalism
- Latin American and Caribbean Studies
- Linguistics
- Medieval Studies
- Mediterranean Studies
- Museum Studies
- Non-Violence
- North American Studies
- Performance Design
- Psychoanalysis: Theories of the Unconscious
- Renaissance Studies
- Resource Systems in the American West
- Revolutions
- The Ancient World
- The Luso-Brazilian Studies
- Urban Studies