43 Bachelor's degrees offered by the university

The Major in Philosophy of Wesleyan University provides students with a solid grounding in historical knowledge and skillful reasoning as they explore perennial human questions about the nature of reality, truth, knowledge, values, reason, ethics, beliefs, and the individual’s place in relation to society.   

The Music program of Wesleyan University is is built around the individual interests and needs of the student while providing a solid foundation in the study of music history and culture, music analysis, theory, composition, and performance.

Majoring in the History program of Wesleyan University will help you develop valuable skills transferable beyond the classroom: critical thinking, interpretation, and persuasive writing, as well as analytical and research skills for tackling complex questions. These are all essential to doing a job well after you leave Wesleyan.

The Letters program of Wesleyan University is a three-year interdisciplinary major for the study of European literature, history, and philosophy, from antiquity to the present.

Neuroscience and Behavior program offered at Wesleyan University opens avenues for students to explore the role of the brain in expressing behavior in animals including humans. Students who major in NS&B learn the details of how the nervous system works and how it functions with other biological and psychological systems.

The Science and Technology Studies programme from Wesleyan University is a transdisciplinary programme that organizes the study of the sciences, technology, and medicine as intellectual achievements, social and political institutions, and constitutive of culture.  

The College of Integrative Sciences (CIS) BA/MA program would enable students involved in interdisciplinary research, either CIS linked-majors or other NSM majors, to participate in a five-year combined BA plus MA program for Wesleyan University students.

The Economics program of Wesleyan University involves the study of social relationships pertaining to the production and allocation of the means of life.

The Film Studies program of Wesleyan University explores the motion picture in a unified manner, combining the liberal arts tradition of cultural, historical, and formal analysis with filmmaking at beginning and advanced levels.

The goal in the Religion department at Wesleyan University is to understand religion, religions, and how these have been studied. Religion departments, including those with Wesleyan's distinctive approach, are not in the business of making students religious. 

The Italian Studies major at Wesleyan University provides students with solid training in the spoken and written Italian language, enabling in-depth study of Italian history, culture, and society from the Middle Ages to the present. Students study a variety of texts (literary, film, and cultural), which enhance their acquisition of the language.

The Medieval Studies Program at Wesleyan University provides an interdisciplinary way to study art history and archaeology, history and culture, music, languages and literature from the medival world.

The Romance Studies major provides students the opportunity to develop a broad knowledge of two or more of the Romance (French-, Italian-, and Spanish-language) cultures taught at Wesleyan University through a flexible, interdisciplinary program.

The major in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures at Wesleyan University enables students to gain fluency in the Spanish language and knowledge of the diverse cultures of Latin America, Spain, and other Hispanophone communities in the United States and worldwide.

Latin American Studies (LAST) is an interdisciplinary program at Wesleyan University that is designed to provide an integrated view of Mesoamerica, South America, and the Caribbean. 

The Computer Science program of Wesleyan University gives students an understanding of the foundational concepts and technical tools used for solving computational problems and building computational systems. Students learn to program in high-level programming languages, analyze the efficiency and correctness of programs, and create original computational structures.

The Biology program of Wesleyan University offers a broad range of courses that emphasize the process of scientific inquiry and current experimental approaches.

The East Asian Studies program of Wesleyan University is a three-year long major that is designed to give students deep knowledge about a particular East Asian culture (China, Japan, Korea) that are grounded in a particular discipline.

The Dance program of Wesleyan University is a contemporary program with a global perspective. The curriculum centers on the creative act – imagining, making and doing. Our program is interdisciplinary, embodied, collaborative, physically and intellectually rigorous, and fosters personal and social transformation.

The Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program of Wesleyan University is administered by the chair and other members of the program’s core faculty.