Departments and Programs
Weinberg College’s 62 academic departments and programs, listed in the second and third tabs below, span the range of disciplines in the arts and sciences. From humanities to social sciences to the natural sciences, our departments and programs foster rigorous interdisciplinary thinking and world-changing scholarship. The fourth tab lists centers that are either based within, or have a close affiliation with, Weinberg College.
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- Academic Support and Learning Advancement
- African Studies
- Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
- American Studies
- Anthropology
- Applied Physics
- Art History
- Art Theory and Practice
- Asian American Studies
- Asian Languages and Cultures
B
- Biological Sciences (undergraduate program)
- Black Studies
- Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civic Life
- British Studies
- Buffett Institute for Global Studies
C
- Center for African American History
- Center for Applied Physics and Superconducting Technologies
- Center for Catalysis and Surface Science
- Center for Cell and Developmental Systems Biology
- Center for Fundamental Physics
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Exploration in Astrophysics
- Center for Native American and Indigenous Research
- Center for Network Dynamics
- Center for Structural Biology
- Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy
- Center for the Study of Industrial Organization
- Chabraja Center for Historical Studies
- Chemistry
- Chemistry of Life Processes Institute
- Chicago Field Studies
- Classics
- Cognitive Science
- Colegio de Física Fundamental e Interdiciplinaria de las Américas
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Computer Science
- Council for Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES)
- Critical Theory
- Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
E
F
G
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Geography
- German
- Global Capitalism and Law Research Group
- Global Health Studies
- Global Politics and Religion Research Group
H
I
- Institute for Policy Research
- Integrated Molecular Structure Education and Research Center (IMSERC)
- Integrated Science Program
- Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Program (IBiS)
- International Institute for Nanotechnology
- International Studies
- Israel Innovation Project (IIP)
J
K
L
- Language Resource Center
- Latina and Latino Studies
- Latin American and Caribbean Studies
- Legal Studies
- Linguistics
M
- Materials Science
- Mathematical Experience for Northwestern Undergraduates
- Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences
- Mathematics
- Media and Design Studio
- Middle East and North African Languages Program
- Middle East and North African Studies
- Molecular Biosciences
N
- Neurobiology
- Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
- NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology
P
- Paris Program in Critical Theory
- Paula M. Trienens Institute for Institute for Sustainability and Energy
- Philosophy
- Physics and Astronomy
- Plant Biology and Conservation
- Political Science
- Psychology
R
S
- Science in Human Culture
- Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching
- Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Sociology
- Spanish and Portuguese
- Statistics and Data Science