Drew University

Accounting

The Accounting program takes a rigorous, integrated, analytic, and critical approach to the study and practice of accounting. The curriculum gives students the tools and skills to analyze domestic and global organizations' financial health, stressing data-informed decisions and ethical considerations. Majors graduate prepared to work in a variety of accounting roles across public and private industries, while helping interested students prepare for the CPA exam.

Advanced Ministerial Studies

African-American/Black Studies

Africana Studies

Africana Studies is an interdisciplinary program that offers extensive study of the history, cultures, politics and socioeconomic structures of Africa and the African Diaspora. Students develop a comparative perspective in order to understand the rich network of linkages, movements and exchanges among African peoples and the interactions among Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, and peoples of African descent.

Anglican Studies

Anthropology

The major equips students with an integrated view of the discipline through courses in biological, archaeological, linguistic, and cultural anthropology with attention to laboratory and on-site field methods. The goal of anthropology is to construct a broader, more inclusive, and insightful view of humanity in historical context. Students are encouraged to consider summer field programs, internships, and semester-long academic programs during their junior year.

Art

The Art Department is committed to developing in each student the capacity for creative problem solving in making art, progressing through a series of studio projects grounded in art history and contemporary art. Contemporary expression in art requires a grounding not just in studio practice, but also in the rigorous study of various image-making traditions and cultures, best explored through the offerings of New York City.

Art History

Art History has a distinguished heritage as a field of cultural, social, and intellectual history in the Humanities. The major is an exploration of the visual arts, past and present, as forms of communication shaped by the physical, cultural, political, psychological and/or economic contexts in which the work of art or architecture was made.

Biblical Studies

Biblical Studies

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

An interdisciplinary 78-credit Bachelor of Science major combining coursework in biology and chemistry at the molecular level. Students take an integrated sequence in both departments together with supporting mathematics and physics.

Biological Anthropology

Biology (BA)

The major begins with three active laboratory courses that allow students to explore ecology, evolution, organismal diversity, cell biology and molecular biology, along with two semesters of general chemistry and a semester of statistics. Intermediate and upper level electives offer students the opportunity to explore many different areas of biology, including molecular biology, genetics, microbiology, neurobiology, organismal biology and ecology.

Biology (BS)

The major begins with three active laboratory courses that allow students to explore ecology, evolution, organismal diversity, cell biology and molecular biology, along with two semesters of general chemistry and a semester of statistics. Additional work in chemistry, mathematics, and physics is often necessary and desirable for students planning to continue study in graduate or medical school.

Business

Business is a liberal arts program that takes an integrated, multifaceted, interdisciplinary, and critical approach to the study and practice of business. The major is based on introductory courses that provide foundational skills, more advanced courses that extend those skills, and electives spanning a wide range of disciplines, perspectives, and applications, emphasizing teamwork, critical analysis, and oral and written communication skills.

Business Analytics

Chemistry

Chemistry has been defined as the science that studies matter and its transformation and is, by nature, the 'central science,' standing between physics and biology. The Department of Chemistry offers three majors: a B.A. Chemistry major, an American Chemical Society (ACS) approved major in chemistry, and an ACS-approved major in biochemistry.

Chemistry, ACS Approved Biochemistry Emphasis

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has developed national guidelines for bachelor's programs in chemistry and approves programs that offer 'a broad-based and rigorous chemistry education that gives students intellectual, experimental, and communication skills to become effective scientific professionals.' This ACS-approved BS course of study places a greater focus on biochemistry.

Chemistry, ACS Traditional

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has developed national guidelines for bachelor's programs in chemistry and approves programs that offer 'a broad-based and rigorous chemistry education that gives students intellectual, experimental, and communication skills to become effective scientific professionals.' This BS course of study follows a traditional chemistry curriculum.

Chinese Studies

Through its rigorous curriculum, the Chinese program at Drew prepares students linguistically and intellectually for interaction with China and the Chinese-speaking world. Speaking, reading, and translating are stressed at all levels of language instruction, and extracurricular activities such as study groups, field trips and films help to integrate the study of the language and the culture.

Classical Studies

Classics today is a rich interdisciplinary field of study, embracing not only the Greek and Latin languages and literature, but also some 2,000 years of ancient Mediterranean civilizations. The Classical Studies major broadens one's horizons in space and time, provides models for understanding both remote cultures and our own, and furnishes a lifelong basis for future reading and thought in diverse areas.

Classics

Computational Science

Computer Science

Computer science is centered around the practice of problem solving using technology, rooted in the natural sciences and mathematics and connected to the social sciences, the arts, and the humanities. Drew's program is designed to stimulate critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity together with effective communication skills; students learn by doing, often through projects for real customers.

Conflict Resolution and Leadership

Contemplative Professional

Cybersecurity

The cybersecurity major is interdisciplinary, includes the foundations of software security, and offers flexibility through electives so students can choose emphases in software, systems, or interdisciplinary contexts. Students learn to identify common vulnerabilities and malware in a software system, propose countermeasures and mitigation solutions, and critically evaluate legal and ethical issues in cybersecurity.

Data Analytics Statistics

Data Science

Data Science

The 5-year bachelor's/Master of Science in Data Science program allows Drew students to take up to four classes that count for both undergraduate and graduate requirements after completing the undergraduate prerequisites. Students may complete any major as part of the bachelor's degree for this combined degree program as long as they complete the prerequisite foundational courses.

Divinity

The accelerated dual-degree bachelor's/Master of Divinity program allows Drew students to complete two degrees in six years, spending three years in Drew's undergraduate College of Liberal Arts and three years in Drew's Theological School. Students earn their bachelor's degree from Drew after successfully completing 32 credits in the Master of Divinity program, and then earn the MDiv after completing all requirements in the sixth year.

Doctor of Letters

Ecology and Religion

Economics

The Drew Economics Department has established three broad objectives for its economics curriculum. The major teaches students analytical tools for understanding the functioning of economic systems, familiarizes them with the origin, character, and operation of economic institutions, and enables them to make informed judgments about economic policy.

Education, General

Education/Teaching of Individuals with Specific Learning Disabilities

Education with English as a Second Language Endorsement

Education with Teacher of Students with Disabilities Endorsement

Elementary Education and Teaching

Elementary Education (Associate's to Bachelor's Program)

A 64 credit program that prepares teachers to meet the challenges of diverse learners in a globalized, technology-driven world. Drew's program leads to a Bachelor of Arts degree in Elementary Education with New Jersey teacher certification in elementary (K-6) education; candidates must already have an Associate's degree.

Elementary Education with English as a Second Language Endorsement

Engineering Physics

A major in Engineering Physics is designed to provide an ideal pathway for students interested in a career in engineering. The core curriculum is built around physics, mathematics, chemistry, and computer science courses. This is not an ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) accredited program.

English

English: Creative Writing Emphasis

As English majors, students read widely, engaging with many kinds of texts from multiple periods, geographical areas, genres, and literary traditions, choosing a specific emphasis as their focus. Through the major, students develop flexibility of thought, attentiveness to language, and an ability to engage with the world around them and to understand difference.

English: Literature Emphasis

As English majors, students read widely, engaging with many kinds of texts from multiple periods, geographical areas, genres, and literary traditions, choosing a specific emphasis as their focus. Through the major, students develop flexibility of thought, attentiveness to language, and an ability to engage with the world around them and to understand difference.

English: Writing and Communications Emphasis

As English majors, students read widely, engaging with many kinds of texts from multiple periods, geographical areas, genres, and literary traditions, choosing a specific emphasis as their focus. Through the major, students develop flexibility of thought, attentiveness to language, and an ability to engage with the world around them and to understand difference.

Environmental Science

The Environmental Science major emphasizes appropriate skills and experiences for science-oriented careers and graduate study. Students take core courses in biology and chemistry, environmental science courses, and electives offered in other majors, completing the curriculum with the ESS capstone seminar. The major is designed with considerable flexibility so students may pursue interests such as research, environmental law, non-profit work, consulting, and state or federal agency work.

Environmental Studies and Sustainability

The Environmental Studies and Sustainability (ESS) program provides students with the in-depth knowledge, multidisciplinary perspectives, and critical skills needed to address the complex environmental problems of today and of the future. The program explores disruptions to Earth's global life-support systems, threats to biotic and human communities, the challenge of environmental justice, and the obstacles to and promise of environmental sustainability.

Finance

The 5-year Bachelor's/Master of Science in Finance program allows Drew students to take up to four classes that count for both undergraduate and graduate requirements. Students who successfully complete all four courses essentially finish the first year of the part-time Master of Science in Finance program as undergraduates, taking graduate coursework in their last two undergraduate semesters.

Finance

The Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Finance major is designed to appeal to students wanting to immerse themselves in financial markets and data analysis. The rigorous and hands-on curriculum engages students through real-world exposure to U.S. and global markets, and prepares graduates for success in careers throughout the financial industry.

French

French and Francophone Studies

The learning objectives of the French major are to reach an advanced oral and written linguistic competency in French, to enhance cultural and intercultural literacy, and to be able to articulate well-supported arguments drawn from literary texts, newspapers, audiovisual materials, and academic sources. Students become aware of ongoing debates, questions, and issues related to the French and Francophone world.

German

Not only is German a key language for science, culture, and art, but Germany also has one of the four largest economies in the world. Drew's German program offers instruction of the highest quality, emphasizes innovative learning, and integrates language, literature, and culture, with regular excursions to New York City and study abroad strongly encouraged.

History

The History department emphasizes thinking historically about the world, the nation, the community and the self, based on careful examination and evaluation of textual, oral, visual, and digital evidence. The department specializes in modern U.S. history, European history and global history, emphasizing themes such as diverse perspectives in history, cultural and intellectual history, and writing history.

History and Culture

Drew University's 4+1 BA in History/Master of Arts in History & Culture (MA) program allows students to earn a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degree in five years. Students begin taking classes toward the MA in their junior or senior year, completing two upper-level history courses that count as electives for both degrees. Admission to the History and Culture program is currently suspended.

History and Culture

Interfaith Peacebuilding

International Relations

Offered through the Political Science department, the International Relations major builds a core in comparative political systems, international relations, international security, international political economy, and human rights. Students may pursue on-site study through specialized programs such as the Semester on the United Nations, the Semester in Washington, and the London Semester.

Italian Studies

Knowledge of Italian has become increasingly valuable for employment in international law, finance, trade, banking, art, music, fashion and communications as well as for graduate studies in the humanities and social sciences. The Italian faculty at Drew provides a rich curriculum in language, literature, culture, and cinema taught through the latest pedagogical and multimedia tools.

Liturgical Studies

Liturgical Studies

Marketing

The marketing major is a liberal arts program that takes an integrated, multidisciplinary, and critical approach to the study and practice of marketing. The major encompasses courses that emphasize strategic planning, data analysis, communication skills, and teamwork, and graduates are prepared to work across many private and public organizations in a wide variety of marketing roles.

Master of Letters

Mathematics

Mathematics lies at the heart of the liberal arts. Based in abstraction and logical reasoning, mathematics is both a body of knowledge and an elegant and useful way of perceiving our world, finding ubiquitous application from the natural and social sciences to the humanities and the arts.

Media and Communications

The Media & Communications (MCOM) major is designed to investigate how media and communication shape identity, society, and democratic processes. Whether a student's interest is in media production, film, social media, journalism, advertising, or the impact of media messages, the major prepares students for graduate work or further professional training as well as for positions in media and communications industries.

Medical Humanities

Medical Humanities

Medical Humanities, Health and Society

The 5-year bachelor's/Master of Arts in Medical Humanities, Health and Society program allows Drew students to take up to four classes that count for both undergraduate and graduate requirements, and students may complete any major as part of the bachelor's degree. Approved undergraduates may dual enroll in up to four 500- or 600-level Medical and Health Humanities courses; remaining courses are completed during the master's year.

Music

The expression of ideas and emotions through music is integral to every culture; to understand music is to understand the essence of humanity. Music extends one's comprehension of history and society while also providing preparation for a career, as the broadly educated musician is in demand in the recording industry, education, theatre, film, television, and radio.

Neuroscience

The Neuroscience major at Drew is an interdisciplinary program of study that allows students to explore the brain from the perspectives of many disciplines, including biology, chemistry, computer science, philosophy, physics, and psychology. The curriculum introduces students to current theories that explain how the brain works at a variety of levels, from molecules to behavior.

Philosophy

To study philosophy is to embark on conceptual exploration. Philosophers seek rational answers to enduring questions about knowledge, reality, value, thought, and language, and have examined fundamental presuppositions of science, morality, governance, and art. The major fosters careful argumentation and clear writing.

Physics (BA)

Physics addresses the most fundamental topics in science, from the structure of the universe to light, atoms, and elementary particles. The physics curriculum at Drew is designed for flexibility, and the department encourages all students to pursue experiences such as paid internships, off- or on-campus research, and independent study.

Physics (BS)

Physics addresses the most fundamental topics in science, from the structure of the universe to light, atoms, and elementary particles. It provides much of the conceptual foundation and instrumentation essential to astronomy, engineering, and other sciences, and the physics curriculum at Drew is designed for flexibility.

Poetry

Political Science

Political scientists study how people govern themselves in realms from the smallest communities to the international system. Basic courses in political theory, American politics, comparative politics, and international relations provide the knowledge and analytic tools students need to be informed citizens, with opportunities for on-site study through the Semester on the United Nations, the Semester in Washington, and the London Semester.

Psychology

Psychology is the scientific study of individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The curriculum provides opportunities for majors in all subfields of the discipline, with core courses, specialized courses and advanced seminars; majors also observe the applications of psychology by completing internships and participating in specialized research and laboratory experiences.

Public Health

The focus of Public Health is on the prevention of diseases, disabilities, and disorders through a variety of practices and programs, and involves critical thinking and decision-making about health and healthcare on a population level. The study of public health is inherently interdisciplinary, as sociocultural, political, and economic issues determine the quality of a society's health.

Religion

The 5-year bachelor's/Master of Arts in Religion program allows Drew students to take up to four classes that count for both undergraduate and graduate requirements. Students may complete any major as part of the bachelor's degree for this combined degree program as long as they complete the prerequisite courses; when approved, undergraduates may dual enroll in up to four 500- or 600-level Theological School courses.

Religion

The Religion major analyzes the presence and influence of religion in the world in the past and present. As the study of religion is an interdisciplinary field, students examine religions in diverse contexts and using a range of methods, interpreting sources including texts, visual arts, media, law, architecture, and performance.

Religion, Ecology, & Justice

Religion & Society

Religion & Society

Religious Lead & Social Transformation

Research Ethics

Restorative Justice & Prison Min

Secondary Education

Secondary Education with English as a Second Language Endorsement

Secondary Education with Teacher of Students with Disabilities Endorsement

Social Ethics

Sociology

Crime, inequality, healthcare, politics, families, gender, race and ethnicity, education, work, and social change - today's sociologists study all these topics, focusing on the causes and consequences of social interaction. Through a combination of classroom study and field work, Drew's Sociology program applies theory and research to real world problems.

Spanish

An understanding of Spanish is essential today, both to maintain cultural and economic ties with the 20 countries in which Spanish is the official language and to appreciate the culture of over 50 million Hispanics residing in the United States. The Spanish/Hispanic Studies program offers a broad and diverse experience in the language, literature, and culture of Spanish-speaking people through a proficiency-oriented approach.

Special Major

Statistics

Statistics is the practice of working with data using computational and quantitative techniques: collecting, organizing, modeling, analyzing, summarizing, and visualizing, often in order to make well-founded inferences or predictions. Drew's statistics program has a strong computational, applied, and interdisciplinary focus that prepares students to participate in quantitative research and careers.

Teaching

The bachelor's degree/Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) 4+1 program allows Drew students to take up to four classes that count for both undergraduate and graduate requirements. The Teaching minor prepares students to enter the MAT program to become a certified public school teacher in New Jersey in either elementary K-6 or a content area, with eligibility for a second certification in Special Education or English as a Second Language.

Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor

Teaching Writing

Theatre Arts

The Theatre Arts department at Drew is dedicated to a broad-based study of the history, literature, theory, and practice of theatre and its various disciplines in the context of an overall liberal arts education. Study takes place through classroom work and an extensive, co-curricular production program that centers on student involvement and leadership in all of the theatrical arts.

Theological & Religious Studies

Theological & Religious Studies

Theological Studies

Theology and Ministry

The 5-year bachelor's/Master of Arts in Theology and Ministry program allows Drew students to take up to four classes that count for both undergraduate and graduate requirements. Students may complete any major as part of the bachelor's degree for this combined degree program as long as they complete the prerequisite foundational courses, and when accepted may dual enroll in four Theological School courses.

Theology - First-Professional

Theology Professions

United Methodist Studies

Women's and Gender Studies

Women's and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary program that examines, through an intersectional approach, the diversity of experiences of women, men, gender non-conforming, trans and non-binary individuals as they are shaped by class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, age, ability, social location, nationality and cultural identity. It teaches students how to ask analytical and critical questions about gender and to understand its connections to other social categories of identity.