EXPLORATIONS IN DEPTH

Through majors, minors and concentrations, students explore a discipline in depth, or, in the case of concentrations, deepen their understanding of an interdisciplinary topic. A major is required for graduation; students may supplement this with a minor, concentration, or even second major if they wish, though these are not required.

MAJOR
Kalamazoo College offers twenty-seven majors through which students explore and develop expertise in an academic discipline. Majors programs are designed to move from the broad to the specific through a sequence of core and elective courses. Upper-level majors courses usually delve deeply into a specific topic, and students can shape a particular emphasis within a major through their choice of upper-level courses. Regardless the discipline, all majors programs build skills in written and oral expression, information literacy, critical thinking and analysis, creative problem-solving, and independent scholarship.

MINORS AND CONCENTRATIONS
A minor typically comprises a subset of what is required for a major, whereas a concentration is a set of courses with a common focus drawn from several disciplines. Minors and concentrations enable students to supplement a major with directed study of another realm of interest, and, in the process, lend more coherence to course selections satisfying Areas of Study and other general education requirements. Amost all disciplines offering a major also offer a minor, and nine concentrations are offered.