Trinity College

Academic Leadership

The certificate in Academic Leadership in Mentoring and Tutoring provides students with the skills and knowledge to better perform and learn from tutoring and mentoring experiences, along with a scholarly grounding in theories of leadership.

American Studies

Trinity's master of arts in American studies fosters a broad foundation in archival, spatial, public humanities, and transnational approaches to exploring the American experience at home and abroad. The 9-credit program trains students to become engaged scholars and public humanists who can synthesize these approaches into theoretically and empirically rigorous analyses of the often contradictory and conflicting meanings of America.

American Studies

American studies is an interdisciplinary major examining the cultures, histories, and social life of the United States through diverse methods and perspectives.

American Studies Graduate Certificate in Museums and Communities

Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humanity across cultures and time, integrating cultural, biological, and archaeological perspectives on human societies.

Arabic

The Arabic major develops proficiency in the Arabic language along with engagement with Arabic literature, culture, and civilization.

Archaeological Fieldwork

Students develop skills in interdisciplinary archaeological research through coursework on archaeology and material culture and a hands-on archaeological fieldwork experience.

Art History

The art history major studies visual art, architecture, and material culture across periods and cultures, developing skills in visual analysis and critical interpretation.

Biochemistry

Biochemistry examines the chemical processes and substances underlying living organisms, combining rigorous coursework and laboratory work in biology and chemistry.

Bioinstrumentation

The bioinstrumentation certificate provides an integrated design and implementation experience of circuit design, data acquisition of physiological signals, and embedded microprocessor system design within biomedical engineering.

Biology (BA - Bachelor of Arts)

Biology is the study of living organisms and life processes, integrating coursework and laboratory experience across the biological sciences.

Biology (BS - Bachelor of Science)

Biology is the study of living organisms and life processes; the B.S. provides a rigorous science foundation with extensive laboratory experience.

Carceral Systems & Social Change

Students develop a foundational knowledge of prison and incarceration in the US and its global implications, exploring alternatives to punishment and ways to embed decarceration into society through study and experiential learning.

Chemistry

Chemistry studies the composition, structure, and properties of matter and the changes it undergoes, with laboratory-based training.

Chinese Studies

The Chinese Studies major develops Chinese language proficiency and knowledge of Chinese culture, literature, and society.

Classical Studies

Classical Studies engages the languages, literatures, and cultures of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds.

Clinical Neuroscience

The clinical neuroscience certificate is for students interested in health care or graduate school in a field related to neuroscience, including neurology, psychiatry, physical or occupational therapy, and clinical psychology.

Computer Science (BA - Bachelor of Arts)

Computer science studies computation, algorithms, software, and computing systems within a liberal arts context.

Computer Science (BS - Bachelor of Science)

Computer science studies computation, algorithms, software, and computing systems; the B.S. provides a deeper technical and mathematical foundation.

Cybersecurity

The cybersecurity certificate enables students to gain technical skills centered around core cybersecurity areas including applied cryptography, access control, software and hardware security, application security, and network and infrastructure security.

Data Science (BA - Bachelor of Arts)

Data science combines statistics, computing, and domain knowledge to collect, analyze, and interpret data.

Data Science (BS - Bachelor of Science)

Data science combines statistics, computing, and domain knowledge to extract insight from data; the B.S. emphasizes greater technical depth.

Design Thinking

In the Design Thinking Certificate, creative problem-solving skills are developed through activities in which students learn to use empathy to understand problems, break them into smaller pieces, explore options, and test prototypes.

Digital Communications

The certificate in Digital Communication prepares students for careers in public-facing writing, digital communication practices, public relations, and social media through academic and experiential activities.

Economics (BA - Bachelor of Arts)

Economics analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services and the behavior of individuals, firms, and markets.

Economics (BS - Bachelor of Science)

Economics analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services; the B.S. emphasizes quantitative and mathematical training.

Educational Studies

The interdisciplinary major in educational studies integrates the theory, policy, and practice of schooling and its broader relationship with society, through collaborative learning with classrooms and communities in Hartford.

Engineering

The Trinity engineering degrees are based on the formal study of mathematics, physics, and chemistry, extended by engineering core courses in mechanics, material science, electrical circuits, and automatic control theory, and rounded out by a senior capstone design project.

Engineering Science

The B.A. in engineering science requires integration of engineering studies with significant study in cognate areas such as economics, international studies, environmental science, neuroscience, or public policy and law.

English

By majoring in English, students refine their ability to comprehend works of literature, understand how literature and culture affect one another, and express their interpretations in speech and in writing.

English

Trinity's master of arts in English develops writing and critical thinking skills through the intense study of literature, history, theory, and methodological approaches. The aim of this two-year, 10-credit program, which culminates in a thesis project, is to train students to write and think clearly with a sense of style and imaginative subtlety.

Entrepreneurship

The entrepreneurship experiential certificate combines academic coursework and experiential activities focused on entrepreneurship and markets.

Environmental Science (BA - Bachelor of Arts)

Environmental science is an interdisciplinary major concerned with understanding the complex interactions between natural environmental processes and human influences upon them, drawing on biology, chemistry, physics, earth science, computer science, and engineering.

Environmental Science (BS - Bachelor of Science)

Environmental science is an interdisciplinary major concerned with understanding the complex interactions between natural environmental processes and human influences upon them, with a rigorous science emphasis.

Ethnomusicology

The ethnomusicology experiential certificate combines academic study and experiential engagement with the study of music in its cultural contexts.

Film Curation

The film curation experiential certificate combines academic coursework and experiential activities focused on the curation and programming of film.

Film Studies

The interdisciplinary program in film studies draws on courses in film studies and production taught across many of the College's departments, grounding students in film history, film theory, and film production.

Film Studies (part of Individualized Interdisciplinary program)

Francophone Studies

The Francophone Studies Program offers studies in French and Francophone cultures, with courses in French language, literature, Francophone cultures, and film.

German Studies

The major in German studies offers an interdisciplinary approach to the German-speaking world, developing language skills and exploring German literature in original German and in translation.

Global Health & Human Ecology

The global health and human ecology experiential certificate combines academic coursework and experiential activities examining health in its ecological, social, and global contexts.

Hispanic Studies

The major in Hispanic studies fosters a detailed understanding of the vast and complex mix of cultural systems that constitutes the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian World.

History

Historians examine the past to form a meaningful image of events, drawing on documents, archival materials, and other data combined with scholarly writings and analysis. Majors design an intentional course of study through their own thematic concentrations.

Human Rights (part of Individualized Interdiciplinary degree)

Human Rights Studies

The study of human rights draws on multiple disciplines and perspectives to address fundamental questions relating to the humane treatment of people, exploring civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights.

Individualized Interdisciplinary Major (BA - Bachelor of Arts)

The self-designed, interdisciplinary major is for students whose exceptional intellectual interests cross disciplinary boundaries and cannot be reasonably approximated by existing majors at Trinity.

Individualized Interdisciplinary Major (BS - Bachelor of Science)

The self-designed, interdisciplinary major is for students whose exceptional intellectual interests cross disciplinary boundaries and cannot be reasonably approximated by existing majors at Trinity.

Information Security

The information security experiential certificate combines academic coursework and experiential activities focused on securing information and systems.

Innovation

The innovation experiential certificate combines academic coursework and experiential activities focused on innovation and its application.

Interdisciplinary Computing

This interdisciplinary major (B.A. or B.S.) is designed for students who wish to combine computing with another discipline; students design a course of study in consultation with two faculty advisers.

International Relations (part of Individualized Interdiciplinary degree)

International Studies

International studies is an interdisciplinary major in which students engage global and international issues through global core courses, area or focus-cluster courses, sustained language study, and a senior seminar. Students choose a concentration among African, Asian, Caribbean and Latin American, Global, Middle Eastern, or Russian and Eurasian studies.

International Studies - African Studies

International Studies - Asian Studies

International Studies - Caribbean and Latin American Studies

International Studies - Middle East Studies

International Studies - Russian and Eurasian Studies

Italian Studies

The Italian Studies Program offers courses in Italian and English about the language, culture, and civilization of Italy.

Japanese Studies

The Japanese Studies Program offers Japanese language courses at all levels and numerous courses related to Japanese culture, literature, and society.

Jewish Studies

Jewish studies is a multi-disciplinary, College-wide investigation of Jewish civilization in its many historical and geographical manifestations, from its ancient Near Eastern origins through contemporary history and culture in Israel and the Diaspora.

LACS Comparative Literature

Students major broadly in literary studies, drawing on courses on literature and culture in translation, situating texts within their original cultural context and probing the act of linguistic and cultural translation.

LACS Dual Language Focus

The LACS Dual Language Focus major is a philological track in which students focus on two linguistic areas, taking courses in a primary and secondary language of their choice.

Language & Cultural Studies

Machine Learning

The machine learning experiential certificate combines academic coursework and experiential activities focused on machine learning methods and applications.

Mathematics (BA - Bachelor of Arts)

The mathematics major is designed around a core of required courses that provides a strong foundation in both computational and theoretical mathematics, with electives in pure and applied mathematics.

Mathematics (BS - Bachelor of Science)

The mathematics major is designed around a core of required courses that provides a strong foundation in both computational and theoretical mathematics, with electives in pure and applied mathematics.

Medicine and Allied Health

The medicine and allied health experiential certificate combines academic coursework and experiential activities preparing students for careers in medicine and allied health fields.

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Climate Emergency

The certificate consists of two academic credits in climate-related coursework representing two different divisions and a co-curricular credit earned through experiential work related to the climate emergency.

Multimedia Communications

The multimedia communications experiential certificate combines academic coursework and experiential activities in multimedia and communications, fulfilled through coursework and an internship in publishing, journalism, the arts, communications, or related areas.

Museums and Communities

The graduate certificate in museums and communities within the American studies master's program at Trinity is designed to respond to the growing role museums play in our culture as venues of mass entertainment and education. Students may earn this 4-credit certificate independent of, or as part of, the master's degree program.

Music

Students majoring in music complete courses in music theory and history, world music, an advanced 400-level course, musical performance classes, and electives.

Neuroscience

This accelerated B.S./M.A. program is intended for current Trinity College undergraduates who have demonstrated academic excellence, already inaugurated an approved research project, and intend to continue their graduate or professional education. Students who complete this program will acquire highly valuable research skills and strengthen their future graduate school applications, and are expected to complete both the B.S. and M.A. degrees within 5 years.

Neuroscience (BA - Bachelor of Arts)

Neuroscience majors take introductory, intermediate, and advanced neuroscience courses along with introductory biology and chemistry, and participate in a senior seminar and laboratory research.

Neuroscience (BS - Bachelor of Science)

Neuroscience majors take introductory, intermediate, and advanced neuroscience courses along with biology and chemistry, and participate in a senior seminar and laboratory research.

Organ Performance

The organ performance experiential certificate combines academic study and performance experience focused on organ performance.

Philosophy

Philosophy is the inquiry into the nature and structure of reality in all of its various forms. As the most fundamental intellectual discipline, philosophy reflects on the essence and foundations of every other discipline.

Physical Sciences

Suggested for those preparing to teach science in secondary schools, the major requires eight courses chosen from the 300- and 400-level offerings in biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, and physics.

Physics

Physics is the study of matter, energy, and the fundamental forces of nature, with laboratory and mathematical training.

Political Science

The political science curriculum provides majors with an understanding of the complexities of political life, including the sources of conflict and the political techniques employed to resolve them, across the subfields of American government and politics, comparative politics, international relations, and political theory.

Private Governance

The private governance experiential certificate combines academic coursework and experiential activities examining private forms of governance.

Psychology

Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes, with laboratory and research training.

Public Policy

Trinity College's master of arts in public policy seeks to equip students with both critical skills in organizational management and a strong grounding in the core civic ideas that animate public policy in the United States and other democracies.

Public Policy and Law

The public policy and law major is an interdisciplinary program in which students learn and practice methods and modes of thinking required to understand and become actively engaged in the analysis of legal and public policy issues.

Public Policy Graduate Certificate in Urban Planning

Refugee and Immigrant Resettlement

The certificate leverages Trinity's location in Hartford to help students study and experience work on refugee and immigrant issues, combining courses on immigration, border issues, and human rights with a co-curricular experience at a Hartford-based refugee organization.

Religious Studies

The major is designed to help students develop a sophisticated and nuanced appreciation of religion in the human experience across cultures and historical periods.

Research In Mathematics

The certificate enables students to combine upper-level coursework and a research experience in a structured way as they look toward graduate school or other post-Trinity experiences involving advanced mathematics.

Russian

The Russian major brings students into the aesthetically rich world of Russia's language and culture through a wide range of courses across disciplines.

Sociology

The sociology major provides students with the theoretical and methodological tools to analyze the reciprocal relationship between the individual and society.

Software Development

The software development certificate enables students to gain the breadth of skills necessary to design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate software products and solutions.

Studio Arts

The studio arts major consists of studio arts courses and art history courses, structured to provide a foundation in visual thinking across traditional and new disciplines and opportunities for advanced study.

Tax Policy & Inequality

Students develop an understanding of tax policy aimed at low-income Americans through coursework and experiential learning connected to a low-income tax clinic, including an internship at a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) site.

Technical Theater

In the Technical Theater Production Certificate, creative problem-solving and practical, hands-on skills are developed through coursework, stage production, and an internship in technical theater production.

Theater and Dance

The Theater and Dance major integrates the two disciplines of theater and dance, supporting the specific training required in each while exploring how each informs the other in both theory and practice.

Translation in Practice

Students develop academic and practical skills in translation through coursework in the Department of Language and Culture Studies and by practicing translation in professional settings through internships.

Tutoring Academic Writing

Students develop academic and practical skills in the tutoring of academic writing, learning the history of tutoring writing in higher education, best practices, and the theories underpinning them.

Urban Engaged Learning

The certificate enables students to develop skills in urban-focused research, engagement with community partners, and independent project management, consisting of two academic credits earned through the Liberal Arts Action Lab and one co-curricular experience.

Urban Planning

Trinity College's graduate certificate in urban planning, offered through the master's program in public policy, examines the methods and impacts of policymaking from Hartford outward, to Connecticut, the New England region, the United States, and the world. The program looks at city planning at the local, state, regional, national, and global levels, giving students the opportunity to learn through the study of urban areas how to improve the quality of life for residents.

Urban Planning

Trinity College's master of arts in urban planning gives those who are planning a career in urban planning and those already working in the field the tools and skills needed to succeed as town and city planners or as policy specialists.

Urban Studies

The urban studies major provides a broadly interdisciplinary understanding of how urban dynamics shape both global interdependence and local spaces, using resources in the urban field of Hartford and beyond.

Using Second Language Skills in a STEM Context

This experiential certificate enables students to apply second-language skills within a STEM context through academic coursework and experiential activities.

Women, Gender and Sexuality

The program in women, gender, and sexuality takes gender and sexuality as its critical terms of inquiry, exploring them as social constructs and analyzing their impact across the traditional disciplines.

World Literature and Culture Studies

Writing Pedagogy

Through academic study and practical experience, students learn strategies to engage and support developing writers, combining a writing-intensive course, a course on the history or theory of literacy and pedagogy, and a co-curricular teaching credit.