Special Degree Programs

Undergraduate Special and Interdisciplinary Programs

History-related programs offering undergraduate majors or minors.

• American Studies

  An interdisciplinary approach to understanding American society and culture under the umbrella of the English department.

• Asian Pacific American Studies

  Housed in the American Studies Program at the University of Virginia, the minor in Asian Pacific American Studies is an interdisciplinary program that familiarizes students with the cultural and political contours of Asian Pacific America.

• Distinguished Majors Program

  The History Distinguished Majors program offers students of demonstrated ability opportunities for independent study, directed research, and professional training beyond those available in the regular history curriculum.

• East Asian Center

  The East Asia Center is an interdisciplinary forum for faculty and student interest in East and Southeast Asia and an organizer of extra-curricular lectures and activities.

• Jewish Studies

  The Jewish Studies Program allows students to focus on the history, languages, and literature of the Jewish people; the beliefs and practices of Judaism; and the enduring contributions of Jewish wisdom to human civilization.

• Latin American Studies

  This major seeks the study of Latin America under many different perspectives and approaches. Students take classes in at least four departments guaranteeing a more diversified and comprehensive study.

• Media Studies

  The Media Studies Program is focused on the forms and effects of media (books, radio, film, television, photography, print, digital and electronic media) with a significant emphasis on digital media through approaches to its history, theory, and technology and their impact upon contemporary life.

• Medieval Studies

  Provides an interdisciplinary and transhistorical framework for the study, teaching, and learning of premodern world civilizations, from the first centuries of the Common Era through the fifteenth century.

• Middle East Studies

  An interdisciplinary program that coordinates and organizes events relating primarily to the Arab world, Israel, Iran and Turkey.

• Religious Studies

  The Department of Religious Studies is engaged in the analysis and interpretation of those dimensions of human experience and expressions of human culture commonly called "religious."

• Studies in Women and Gender

  An interdisciplinary program that seeks to study history and culture from women's perspectives and to deepen methods of academic pursuit by acknowledging the critical places of gender. It is open to all undergraduates as a concentration or major.

• Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies

  The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies is an interdisciplinary teaching and research center drawing the majority of its faculty and students from the humanities and social sciences.