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Majors & Minors

Lawrentians are explorers at heart. So go ahead and start discovering all Lawrence has to offer.

Here, you will have four degree options to choose from, along with 65 majors, minors, and programs to combine in any way you can imagine. With all of these courses to choose from, there’s no telling where your future could lead.

Areas of Study

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Anthropology

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Art

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Art History

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Bass

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Student plays bassoon in class

Bassoon

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Students working in a science lab.

Biochemistry

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Nicole Chodkowski, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, and Nikki Lagman ’24 collect environmental factors such as pH and salinity Monday, July 19, 2021, at Sawyer Creek Nature Trail And Oak Savanah Forest in Oshkosh, Wis. Photo by Danny Damiani

Biology

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Student discussion in biomedical ethics class

Biomedical Ethics

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Safiya Grant makes her pitch to the judges at The Pitch in The Fox Club at Fox Cities Stadium. Students like Safiya who are entrepreneurship majors, study entrepreneurship in college, and earn a business and entrepreneurship degree.

Business & Entrepreneurship

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Cello players

Cello

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Student working a chemistry lab

Chemistry

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Chinese & Japanese

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Clarinet

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Looking up at one face of the Colosseum in Rome, Italy.

Classics

ClassicsLatinGreeklanguagelanguages

Student creating mind-reading computer headset

Cognitive Science

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Composition

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Professor of Computer Science Kurt Drebsbach with student

Computer Science

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Creative Writing

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Dance

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East Asian History class with Brigid Vance challenging students to observe artwork.

East Asian Studies

East Asian StudiesChineseJapaneseChinaJapanKorea

Trend charts on a computer

Economics

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Michelle Gibson ’17 works with students in her second-grade classroom at Appleton’s Lincoln Elementary School.

Education Studies

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Engineers examining paperwork on a table

Engineering

Cooperative Degree Program

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Books on a shelf.

English

Englishliteraturecreative writingjournalism

Gillian Buckardt ’22, Ella Lemley-Fry ‘23, Katie Mahorney ’22 and Relena Ribbons, Assistant Professor of Geosciences, weed SLUG as part of their summer research Tuesday, July 13, 2021.

Environmental Science

environmental relationsnatural sciencesconservation

Student walks up a rocky creek bed for summer research

Environmental Studies

environmentsustainabilityenvironmental studiesenvironmental justice

Ethnic Studies student speaking on Yujie

Ethnic Studies

Ethnic StudiesBIPOCLatinXanthropologyethnicityafrican american studiesblack historylatin american studiesAsian American studiesindigenous studies

Film reel

Film Studies

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Students playing flutes in Warch Campus Center

Flute

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Image of trees in a forest

Forestry & Environmental Studies

Cooperative Degree Program

forestryenvironmental studiesnatural resourcesnatural resources management

French flag blowing in wind

French & Francophone Studies

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Gender Studies

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Students conduct research on the shores of Lake Michigan

Geosciences

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Aerial of Berlin, German on the Spree River with the Berlin TV Tower in background

German

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Global Studies

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United Nations headquarters

Government

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Student playing guitar at Cultural Expressions.

Guitar

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A harp.

Harp

Farmer planting tomatoes seedling in organic garden

Health and Society

public healthcommunity healthepidemiology

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Health Professions

Pre-Professional Program

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Old book spines

History

historyamerican historyworld history

Students and faculty play horns on Memorial Chapel exterior steps

Horn

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Student giving presentation

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Interdisciplinary Area

innovationentrepreneurshipentrepreneurbusinessMBAbusiness administrationmanagementmarketing

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International Relations

international relationsinternational affairspeace studiesconflict studiespeace and conflict studiesglobal affairsglobal studiesgovernmentpolitical scienceforeign affairsforeign policy

Japanese woodblock art

Japanese

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Student plays drums in classroom

Jazz & Improvisational Music

Conservatory Program

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Maccu Piccu

Latin American Studies

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Student reading a paper to a group of students

Linguistics

linguisticslanguagelanguages

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Mathematics

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Museum Studies hero image of students preparing museum exhibits

Museum Studies

Interdisciplinary Area

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People play isntruments outside in front of Lawrence Chapel

Music

Students dancing in Music Education class

Music Education

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Member of the Flute Ensemble is playing a flute

Music Performance

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Music Theory

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Gamelan rehearsal on stage

Musicology

Conservatory Program

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Natural Sciences

Interdisciplinary Area

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MRI of brain

Neuroscience

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Student playing oboe

Oboe

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Person writing in notebook.

Occupational Therapy

Cooperative Degree Program

Many students on stage during opera performance

Opera Theatre

Conservatory Program

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Close up organ keys and music sheets

Organ

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Percussion

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A philosophy class sits in a circle on the grass of Main Hall Green as Ingrid Albrach teaches. Memorial Chapel is in the background.

Philosophy

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Physics students and faculty reviewing an instrument in a lab

Physics

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Studnet playing piano

Piano

Gavel and scale on a wooden desk

Pre-law

Pre-Professional Program

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Psychology major students reviewing Carelab, a phone app developed by Lawrence for child emotional development research

Psychology

psychologypsychiatrysocial worktherapycounselingbrain science

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Public Health

Cooperative Degree Program

public healthmedicinesocietyhealth and society

Martyn Smith teaching class in front of whiteboard

Religious Studies

religious studiesreligiontheology

St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, Russia

Russian

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Student playing saxophone

Saxophone

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Spanish major student presenting

Spanish, Latin American, and Latinx Studies

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Statistics and Data Science

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Children in a classroom listening and raising hands

Teacher Certification

Pre-Professional Program

students performing on stage, Richard III

Theatre Arts

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Trombone player

Trombone

student playing trumpet during Jazz Weekend performance

Trumpet

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Student playing euphonium

Tuba and Euphonium

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students playing viola

Viola

Violin student playing in Lawrence Memorial Chapel

Violin

Estelí Gomez, Assistant Professor of Music, works with student during a studio class

Vocal Arts

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