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Puget Sound’s rigorous, flexible education is rooted in the tradition of the liberal arts—offering you the freedom to explore your passions. Our interdisciplinary and experiential approach prepares students to be engaged citizens, problem solvers, creators, and entrepreneurs.

With more than 1,200 courses in 50 traditional and interdisciplinary areas of study in the arts, natural and social sciences, and humanities, you’re sure to find your passion at Puget Sound.

African American Studies

African American Studies is interdisciplinary, with focal fields such as history, sociology, communication, political science, psychology, arts, economics, education, and the sciences with a social justice lens.

Art & Art History

The Department of Art and Art History explores the wonder and complexity of visual art in theory and practice, offering programs in both studio art and art history.

Asian Studies

Asian Studies involves multiple disciplines, including art, business, history, politics, economics, languages, literature, music, philosophy, religion, sociology, and anthropology.
 

Biology

The biology program offers a breadth of courses in modern biology emphasizing the conceptual and technical progression of biological sciences.

Business Leadership

The School of Business and Leadership provides students with a unique and innovative business education that prepares them for success as leaders in a complex and dynamic global environment.

Chemistry & Biochemistry

The chemistry department offers foundational courses in the five core chemical subdisciplines—organic, physical, analytical, inorganic, and biochemistry—as well as a variety of electives.
 

Communication Studies

Students majoring in communication studies examine the human, social, political, institutional, and mediated dimensions of human communication practices and processes.

Computer Science

Computer scientists design and study algorithms to solve difficult real-world problems, learn software engineering patterns to break down large projects, and study the design of programming languages.

Data Analytics

An educational background in data analytics equips our students with highly marketable skill sets that are increasingly in demand across industries.
     

Economics

The discipline of economics focuses on decision-making and problem-solving, concerning itself with making intelligent individual and social choices in a world of scarcity.

English

The English department brings together the traditional values of the liberal arts education with some of the most exciting new developments in literary, cultural, and new media studies.

Environmental Studies & Sciences

Environmental Studies & Sciences equips students to explore the complex and evolving issues through an approach combining natural sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
     

Exercise Science

Through a curriculum introducing the scientific process and clear articulation of ideas, exercise science students investigate the importance of physical activity and nutrition to human life.

French & Francophone Studies

French & Francophone Studies offers distinct majors that combine the study of language, culture, and literature with international affairs, communications, music, theater, and art.

Gender & Queer Studies

Gender & Queer Studies explores interdisciplinary ideas and theories across the university, from biology, psychology, and education to sociology, anthropology, and English.
     

German Studies

In German Studies, students explore the diverse and fascinating mentalities of German speakers with the goal of developing foreign-language competence, an appreciation of diversity, and cross-cultural awareness.

Greek, Latin & Ancient Mediterranean Studies

Offerings in Greek, Latin & Ancient Mediterranean Studies are designed to foster student understanding of ancient Mediterranean cultures, including in relation to other cultures both ancient and modern.

Hispanic Studies

Hispanic Studies offers the study of the language as well as the literary and cultural production of Iberian, Latin American, and U.S. Hispanic cultures, from their origins to the present.
     

History

History explores a wide range of vital topics, including race, gender, politics, religion, technologies, ideologies, war, migration, class, culture, and the global exchange of goods and ideas.

International Political Economy

International Political Economy prepares students for an increasingly interdependent world through the study of global issues via courses in economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology.

Mathematics

Mathematicians design the models that enable us to understand and improve the structure of transportation networks, computer networks, and physical processes, making them more efficient, effective, and versatile.

Music

The School of Music offers a comprehensive music program within a nationally recognized liberal arts college. We guide students toward outstanding achievements in performance, scholarship, and teaching.

Natural Science

The Natural Sciences major is designed to serve the needs of students who desire a broad background in the natural sciences.

Neuroscience

This interdisciplinary program draws on faculty research at all levels, encompassing topics such as cellular circuits in invertebrates, locomotion analysis and cognitive measurements in humans, and bioethics.

Philosophy

Philosophy introduces historical and contemporary philosophical work, stressing breadth of outlook, rigorous argument, imagination, consistency, systematicity, and the dialectical interplay of minds.

Physics

The Physics program provides an environment of scientific inquiry and discovery, offering a curriculum of classical and modern physics that prepares students for careers as scientists and citizens.

Politics & Government

Politics is about the struggle over power, authority, freedom, justice, security, and peace. We train students to understand these issues at the local, national, and international level.

Psychology

Psychology is the study of human and non-human animal thought and behavior and is applied within a variety of professions including business, education, law, medicine, and clinical practice.

Religion, Spirituality & Society

The Department of Religion, Spirituality & Society explores questions of power, knowledge, and identity as they relate to religious traditions.

Science, Technology, Health & Society

Students in the program develop an understanding of how broader culture influences the development of science and how science influences different societies and cultures.

Sociology & Anthropology

This program allows students to rigorously analyze and understand our modern, complex society, and includes courses on education, health care, media, inequality, family, deviance, and urban phenomena.

Special Interdisciplinary Major

This major allows exceptional students to complete a degree through a course of study that draws upon the curricula of two or more departments, schools, or programs.

Theatre Arts

In Theatre Arts, students acquire knowledge and skills that enable them to become collaborative, informed, imaginative, and engaged theatre makers.
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Why study at the University of Puget Sound? Because here, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to engage with others, to serve in the community, and to explore new ideas in the classroom. With more than 50 areas of study, and 100 clubs and organizations, life at Puget Sound is full.
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