19 Bachelor's degrees offered by the university

This Russian and East European Studies major concentration at Northwestern University is designed for students who wish to combine language and literature with work in other disciplines. It is also a good choice for students whose primary interest rests in non-Russian Slavic countries.

This Russian Language, Literature, and Culture major concentration at Northwestern University is guided by a focus on 19th- and 20th-century Russian literature. 

The Asian Languages and Cultures Major from Northwestern University is designed for students who wish to combine proficiency in an Asian language (Chinese, Hindi-Urdu, Japanese, or Korean) with rigorous training in the humanistic study of an Asian culture or cultures (China, Japan, Korea, South Asia, or comparative).

The Performance Studies program at Northwestern University explores performance in all its forms, extending and deepening the understanding of performance as central to the human condition.

The undergraduate major in Religious Studies at Northwestern University offers a choice between a general Religious Studies degree -- Global Study of Religion (GSR) and one of three focused interdisciplinary concentrations.

The Comparative Literary Studies program at Northwestern University is an interdepartmental, interdisciplinary program for the study of literature across national and linguistic lines. Those who work in the field of comparative literature are committed to the proposition that language is not an indifferent medium of expression but an integral dimension of every expressive act. 

The Classics program at Northwestern University comprises the multidisciplinary study of the language, literature, history, and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome and their transformations in other cultures from late antiquity to the present.

The Creative Writing program is an undergraduate concentration within the English Department at Northwestern University and one of the first and finest undergraduate Creative Writing programs in the country.

Studying English Literature program at Northwestern University you will be honing your ability to use language as a tool for analysis and communication.  Language allows us to communicate with other human beings, opening up the possibility of cooperative action in place of comparatively ineffectual individual efforts.

The Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University concentrate in Russian Language, Literature, and Culture or Russian and East European Studies. The major (or minor) may complement study of history, political science, health, or other disciplines. 

The Jewish Studies program at Northwestern University refers to the study of Judaism, Jewish history, Jewish identity and Jewish culture over time and around the world. Jewish Studies also partners with Middle East and North African Studies (MENA) to provide Hebrew language classes, which are offered at three levels.

Our department’s undergraduate program at Northwestern University offers a welcoming place to everyone wishing to study Philosophy. Our students often explore foundations of other sciences as double majors, minors or non-majors. Those professionalizing their philosophical experience do independent/summer research, use connections for study abroad or enter our honors program. 

History at Northwestern University provides one of the most wide-ranging and varied courses of study. You can select topics ranging from Early Modern Britain to American Slavery to Twentieth-Century China. Methods for studying history include everything from reading novels to using economic models. 

The Spanish program at Northwestern University emphasize an engagement with literary and cultural studies through an attentive reading to the particularities of language and socio-historical context.

Undergraduate students can major or minor in Linguistics at Northwestern University. At all levels, students are encouraged to pursue integrative research which crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries, and to take advantage of insights and methods both from within linguistics and from related fields. 

The undergraduate French program at Northwestern University reflects this diversity through a multidisciplinary approach, offering courses, both in English and French, in literature, cinema, theater, as well as philosophy, literary theory, cultural history, and political thought, ranging from the Medieval period to contemporary French and Francophone cultures.

The Italian Program at Northwestern University has particular strength in the field of Visual Culture. With courses in both English and Italian, our curriculum centers especially on the tradition and problems of visual communication from the Renaissance to contemporary media.

The Humanities program at Northwestern University engage in interdisciplinary study of the circumstances and lives of humans in the past, of literature, the English language and the arts, and of ethical problems and systems of thought in order to understand and interpret the world today.

The Writing program of Northwestern University offers students disciplined training in creative writing and teaches them to write clear and compelling literary analysis with textual substantiation and intellectual integrity.