16 Bachelor's degrees offered by the university

The B.A. in Literary Arts at Brown University offers courses in fiction, poetry, screenwriting, literary hypermedia, and translation, as well as seminar courses in reading and writing about literature.  

The B.A. in Religious Studies at Brown University explores religious thought and practice in various historical, political, cultural, and social contexts in order to understand and interpret societies and cultures throughout the world.

The B.A. in Egyptology and Assyriology at Brown University  offers students a choice of two tracks: Assyriology or Egyptology.

The B.A. in Philosophy at Brown University offers courses covering subjects from the philosophy of religion to the philosophies of science and literature.

The B.A. in Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University provides an opportunity to explore the multi-faceted discipline of archaeology while examining the critical early civilizations of the so-called "Old World" that is, the complex societies of the Mediterranean, Egypt, and Ancient Western Asia.

The B.A. in Contemplative Studies at Brown University investigates the underlying philosophical, psychological, and scientific bases of human contemplative experience. 

The B.A. in Judaic Studies at Brown University offers students the opportunity to study Jews, getting to know their social structures, and what they have created. 

The B.A. in Comparative Literature at Brown University enables students to study literature in cross-cultural perspectives.  

The Bachelor in English at Brown University teaches students about how literature works, how we understand it, and how we write about it. 

The Medieval Cultures programme at Brown University offers a concentration in Medieval Cultures with two tracks with distinct foci: one in Medieval Cultures and the other in Late Antique Cultures.

The Early Modern World programme at Brown University promotes interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to historical cultures around the world between the waning of feudalism and the arrival of global industrial capitalism, from the 1300s to the end of the 1800s.

The Classics programme at Brown University focuses on the languages, literature, history, culture, and legacy of Greco-Roman antiquity.

The Physics and Philosophy programme at Brown University is for students with a deep interest in physics who do not need to acquire the laboratory and computational skills of a professional physicist.

The History programme at Brown University is the study of how societies and cultures across the world change over time. History concentrators learn to write and think critically, and to understand issues from a variety of perspectives.

The Independent Concentration programme at Brown University is for exceptionally dedicated students who are willing to spend extra time and effort creating a “new” concentration, representing a coherent field of study that Brown does not offer.

The B.A. in Linguistics at Brown University gives students a background in the "core" aspects of the language system: phonetics/phonology (the study of speech sounds and their patterning), syntax (the study of combinatorics of words, phrases, and sentences), and semantics/pragmatics (the study of the meanings of words, sentences, and conversation).