Communication, Culture & Technology Master of Arts Program (CCT) - Graduate degree program in the advanced study of contemporary media, communications, and information technology. Fields of study include technology and information policy, media and politics, culture studies, networks and social change, and issues in globalization. Physics - Offers both an A.B. and B.S. in Physics. Events and research opportunities, faculty listing, degree requirements, course descriptions, astronomy club, and research links. History - Offers undergraduate, graduate, and joint degrees. Site provides information regarding programs, faculty, courses, and degree requirements. Cognitive Science Department - Offers an interdisciplinary undergraduate minor in Cognitive Science. Partners with the University's interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience. Linguistics - Offers a BA in Linguistics; MA in Language and Communication; MA in Teaching English as a Second Language; accelerated MS, MLC, and MAT degrees; and a PhD in Linguistics. Coursework is divided into applied linguistics, computational linguistics, sociolinguistics, and theoretical linguistics concentrations. American Studies - Interdisciplinary undergraduate program that provides students with the opportunity to analyze the social, historical, material, ideological and aesthetic aspects of American cultures, past and present. Program in Performing Arts - Unites theater, music and dance groups on campus with the degree programs in the performing arts. Admissions criteria, program descriptions, and performance calendar. Arabic and Islamic Studies - B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. programs emphasizing intensive proficiency-based teaching of Arabic language and culture at the undergraduate level and literature and linguistics at the graduate level. Also offers a joint M.A.A.S/ Arabic Ph.D. degree with the Master of Arts in Arab Studies program offered through the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. Economics Department - Offers a major and a minor in the College of Arts and Sciences and concentrations in the School of Foreign Service as well as a Ph.D. in Economics. Biology Department - Undergraduate, graduate, and post-baccalaureate programs in fields including biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology as well as ecology, evolution and behavioral biology. Graduate research opportunities include animal behavior, cell biology, ecology, genetics, immunology, neurobiology, and parasitology. Classics Department - Undergraduate degree and Post-Baccalaureate programs centering around the cultures and languages of ancient Greece and Rome. English Department - Undergraduate and graduate programs in literature and writing. Home of the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, the University Writing Program, the nascent Film Studies program, the College’s undergraduate Journalism Program, and the Shakespeare Association of America. Anthropology Department - Undergraduate degree program within the Department of Sociology. Offers a major and minor as well as an optional senior honors thesis. French Department - Offers an undergraduate major and minor. Includes information about the French Honor Society, summer study programs in France, and scholarships. German Department - Offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in German language and literature. Site includes information about study abroad opportunities. East Asian Languages and Cultures - Offers majors and minors in Chinese and Japanese as well as language instruction in Korean. Mathematics - Offers a B.S and an A.B in mathematics as well as a minor and an accelerated 5-year masters program. Provides free tutoring at the Math Assistance Center and sponsors a mathematics club. Computer Science - Offers BS, BA, and MS degrees with coursework in algorithms, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, database systems, data mining, information assurance, machine learning, non-standard parallel computing, and software engineering.