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Undergraduate students can focus on analytical, inorganic, organic, medicinal, and physical subfields of this discipline.
What is Chemistry?
100
A recent project in a department that describes itself as “about making” involved production of QR codes left on the subway that, when scanned, would provide a recording of another city’s subway.
What is Media Studies?
100
A student of this department would be a prime candidate for the Ethics Bowl.
What is Philosophy?
100
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures offers majors in Spanish, French, and this language and culture.
What is Italian?
100
This department was recently formed to bring together a variety of cultural studies majors.
What is Transnational Studies?
200
Described as a “pre-professional” undergraduate major, this department focuses on the development and break down of speech, language, and hearing process.
What is Communicative Disorders and Sciences?
200
Along with Umbr(a), the English Department runs this internationally peer-reviewed journal.
What is the Emily Dickinson Journal?
200
This program traditionally sees students enter careers in public relations, marketing, sales, advertising, radio and television research, and various areas of management.
What is Communication?
200
This highly interdisciplinary department, concerned with the best possible allocation of resources, offers a joint major with Math and Geography.
What is Economics?
200
This department offers yearly scholarships for study abroad as well as internships in museums and cultural institutions.
What is History?
300
Students in the Physical and Cultural subfields of this department may choose a pre-med or pre-dental concentration.
What is Anthropology?
300
The Classics department invites students to participate in this excavation project in Western Germany, which has uncovered findings from 1200 – 475 BC.
What is the Hassloch Excavations Project?
300
Graduates of this department may be interested in assessing and putting a price tag on risk as an actuary.
What is Mathematics?
300
This department emphasizes studies of cultural interchange, historical periods, major figures, literary movements, aesthetic initiatives, genres, ideas, themes, and values and houses the interdisciplinary humanities journal, theory@buffalo.
What is Comparative Literature?
300
UB has a chapter of this International Honor Society in Psychology.
What is Psi Chi?
400
Rapidly growing with 15 new professors since 2002, this department was ranked 16th by American Analytics.
What is the physics department?
400
Put on by the department of Geology, this lecture series covers topics such as “Merapi’s “100-Year” Eruption - Forecasting and Eruption Trigger”.
What is The Pegrum Lecture Series?
400
While many pursue teaching in a collegiate setting, graduates of this department enter work in art galleries, museums, auction houses, conservation, fabrication, and grant writing.
What is Visual Studies?
400
In Fall 2012, the Geography Department introduced a new BA and MA program in this sub-discipline.
What is International Trade?
400
This program provides study abroad options in Shanghai, England, and Romania.
What is Theatre and Dance?
500
This program in Biological Sciences combines applied math, computer science, and biological sciences and aims to teach students to “apply mathematics and computing to the study of genes and proteins.”
What is a BS in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology?
500
This ten piece electro-acoustic chamber ensemble, founded in 2000 by Jon Nelson at UB’s Music Department, features original composition and arrangements of unexpected sources such as Zappa and Radiohead.
What is The Genkin Philharmonic?
500
Students in this department are eligible to submit papers to compete for the Best Undergraduate Student Paper Award.
What is Sociology?
500
Research areas in this department include Discourse and Pragmatics, Phonetics and Phonology, Syntax, and Typology.
What is Linguistics?
500
UB’s Rho Tau Chapter is part of this National Political Science Honor Society, for which Political Science students are eligible after 18 credits and a 3.1 GPA.
What is Pi Sigma Alpha?
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