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College of Arts and Sciences

• African Studies -- See Jackson School of International Studies
• American Ethnic Studies
  • Afro-American Studies (AFRAM)
  • American Ethnic Studies (AES)
  • Asian-American Studies (AAS)
  • Chicano Studies (CHSTU)
  • Swahili (SWA)
  • Tagalog (TAGLG)
• American Indian Studies (AIS)
• Anthropology
  • Anthropology (ANTH)
  • Archaeology (ARCHY)
  • Biocultural Anthropology (BIO A)
• Applied Mathematics
  • Applied Mathematics (AMATH)
  • Computational Finance and Risk Management (CFRM)
• Arctic Studies (ARCTIC)
• School of Art
  • Art (ART)
  • Art History (ART H)
  • Design (DESIGN)
• Asian Languages and Literature
  • Asian Languages and Literature (ASIAN)
  • Bengali (BENG)
  • Chinese (CHIN)
  • Hindi (HINDI)
  • Indian (INDN)
  • Indonesian (INDO)
  • Japanese (JAPAN)
  • Korean (KOREAN)
  • Sanskrit (SNKRT)
  • Thai (THAI)
  • Urdu (URDU)
  • Vietnamese (VIET)
• Astrobiology and Early Evolution (ASTBIO)
• Astronomy (ASTR)
• Atmospheric Sciences (ATM S) -- See College of the Environment
• Biology (BIOL)
• Botany -- See Biology (BIOL)
• Canadian Studies -- See Jackson School of International Studies
• Center for Statistics and Social Sciences (CS SS)
• Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE)
• Center for the Humanities (HUM)
• Chemistry (CHEM)
• China Studies -- See Jackson School of International Studies
• Classics
  • Classical Archaeology (CL AR)
  • Classical Linguistics (CL LI)
  • Classics (CLAS)
  • Greek (GREEK)
  • Latin (LATIN)
• Communication (COM)
• Comparative History of Ideas (CHID)
• Comparative Literature, Cinema, and Media
• Cinema and Media Studies (CMS)
• Comparative Literature (C LIT)
• Comparative Religion -- See Jackson School of International Studies
• Computer Science (See Computer Science and Engineering)
• Dance (DANCE)
• Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS)
• Disability Studies (DIS ST)
• Drama (DRAMA)
• Earth and Space Sciences (ESS) -- See College of the Environment
• Economics (ECON)
• English (ENGL)
• European Studies -- See Jackson School of International Studies
• French and Italian Studies
  • French (FRENCH)
  • Italian (ITAL)
• Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (GWSS)
• General Studies
  • General Interdisciplinary Studies (GIS)
  • General Studies (GEN ST)
  • Individualized Studies (INDIV)
• Genetics -- See Genome Studies under School of Medicine
• Geography (GEOG)
• Germanics (GERMAN)
• Greek (Modern) -- See International Studies (Language) (JSIS C)
• Hellenic Studies -- See Jackson School of International Studies
• History
  • Ancient and Medieval History (HSTAM)
  • Comparative and Transregional History (HSTCMP)
  • History (HIST)
  • History of Africa and the Middle East (HSTAFM)
  • History of Asia (HSTAS)
  • History of Latin America and the Caribbean (HSTLAC)
  • History of Modern Europe (HSTEU)
  • History of North America (United States and Canada) (HSTAA)
  • History Seminars and Independent Studies (HSTRY)
• History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)
• Honors -- See Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Programs
• Humanities (See Center for the Humanities)
• Integrated Science (INTSCI)
• Integrated Social Sciences (ISS)
• Jackson School of International Studies
  • Comparative Religion (RELIG)
  • International Studies (Gateway/Core) (JSIS)
  • International Studies (Area Studies) (JSIS A)
  • International Studies (Global/Thematic) (JSIS B)
  • International Studies (Comparative Religion/Jewish Studies) (JSIS C)
  • International Studies (JSIS D)
  • International Studies (Language) (JSIS E)
  • Jewish Studies (JEW ST)
• Japan Studies -- See Jackson School of International Studies
• Jewish Studies -- See Jackson School of International Studies
• Korean Studies -- See Jackson School of International Studies
• Latin America and Caribbean Studies -- See Jackson School of International Studies
• Law, Societies, and Justice (LSJ)
• Linguistics
  • American Sign Language (ASL)
  • Linguistics (LING)
• Mathematics (MATH)
• Microbiology (MICROM) -- See Microbiology under School of Medicine
• Music
  • Music (MUSIC)
  • Music - Applied (MUSAP)
  • Music Education (MUSED)
  • Music Ensemble (MUSEN)
  • Music History (MUHST)
  • Music Performance (MUSICP)
• Near Eastern Languages and Civilization
  • Arabic (ARAB)
  • Aramaic (ARAMIC)
  • Coptic (COPTIC)
  • Egyptian (EGYPT)
  • Ge'ez (GEEZ)
  • Hebrew (HEBR)
    • Biblical Hebrew (BIBHEB)
    • Modern Hebrew (MODHEB)
  • Near Eastern Languages and Civilization (NEAR E)
  • Persian (PRSAN)
  • Turkic (TURKIC)
  • Chagatai (CHGTAI)
  • Kazakh (KAZAKH)
  • Kyrgyz (KYRGYZ)
  • Uygur (UYGUR)
  • Uzbek (UZBEK)
  • Turkish (TKISH)
  • Ugaritic (UGARIT)
• Neurobiology (NBIO)
• Philosophy
  • Philosophy (PHIL)
  • Values in Society (VALUES)
• Physics (PHYS)
• Political Science (POL S)
• Psychology
• Clinical Psychology (PSYCLN)
• Psychology (PSYCH)
• Romance Languages and Literature
  • See French and Italian Studies
  • See Spanish and Portuguese Studies
• Russian and Eastern European Studies -- See Jackson School of International Studies
• Scandinavian Studies
  • Danish (DANISH)
  • Estonian (ESTO)
  • Finnish (FINN)
  • Latvian (LATV)
  • Lithuanian (LITH)
  • Norwegian (NORW)
  • Scandinavian (SCAND)
  • Swedish (SWED)
• Slavic Languages and Literatures
  • Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS)
  • Bulgarian (BULGR)
  • Czech (CZECH)
  • Polish (POLSH)
  • Romanian (Slavic) (ROMN)
  • Russian (RUSS)
  • Slavic (SLAV)
  • Slavic Languages and Literatures (SLAVIC)
  • Slovenian (SLVN)
  • Ukrainian (UKR)
• Social Sciences (SOCSCI)
• Sociology (SOC)
• South Asian Studies -- See Jackson School of International Studies
• Southeast Asian Studies -- See Jackson School of International Studies
• Spanish and Portuguese Studies
  • Portuguese (PORT)
  • Spanish (SPAN)
  • Spanish Linguistics (SPLING)
• Speech and Hearing Sciences (SPHSC)
• Statistics (STAT)
• Women Studies (WOMEN) -- See Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (GWSS)
• Zoology -- See Biology (BIOL)

College of Built Environments

• Architecture (ARCH)
• Built Environment (B E)
• College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP)
• Construction Management (CM)
• Landscape Architecture (L ARCH)
• Urban Planning
  • Community, Environment, and Planning (CEP)
  • Real Estate (R E)
  • Strategic Planning for Critical Infrastructures (SPCI)
  • Urban Planning (URBDP)

Foster School of Business

• Accounting (ACCTG)
• Business Administration
  • Administration (ADMIN)
  • Business Administration (B A)
  • Business Administration Research Methods (BA RM)
  • Business Communications (B CMU)
  • Business Economics (B ECON)
  • Business Policy (B POL)
  • Electronic Business (EBIZ)
  • Entrepreneurship (ENTRE)
  • Finance (FIN)
  • Human Resources Management and Organizational Behavior (HRMOB)
  • Information Systems (I S)
  • Information Systems Master of Science (MSIS)
  • International Business (I BUS)
  • Management (MGMT)
  • Marketing (MKTG)
  • Operations Management (OPMGT)
  • Organization and Environment (O E)
  • Program on Entrepreneurial Innovation (PEI)
  • Quantitative Methods (QMETH)
  • Strategic Management (ST MGT)

School of Dentistry

• Dentistry
  • Dental Clinical (DENTCL)
  • Dental Electives (DENTEL)
  • Dental Foundations (DENTFN)
  • Dental General Practice (DENTGP)
  • Dental Hygiene (D HYG)
  • Dental Pre-Clinical (DENTPC)
  • Dental Public Health Sciences (DPHS)
  • Dental Selectives (DENTSL)
  • Dentistry (DENT)
  • Oral Surgery (O S)
  • Pedodontics (PEDO)
• Endodontics (ENDO)
• Oral Biology (ORALB)
• Oral Medicine (ORALM)
• Orthodontics (ORTHO)
• Periodontics (PERIO)
• Prosthodontics (PROS)
• Restorative Dentistry (RES D)

College of Education

• Curriculum and Instruction (EDC&I)
• College of Education (EDUC)
• Early Childhood and Family Studies (ECFS)
• Education (Teacher Education Program) (EDTEP)
• Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (EDLPS)
• Educational Psychology (EDPSY)
• Special Education (EDSPE)

College of Engineering

• Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Aeronautics and Astronautics (A A)
  • Aerospace Engineering (A E)
• Chemical Engineering
  • Chemical Engineering (CHEM E)
  • Nanoscience and Molecular Engineering (NME)
• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
• Construction, Energy, and Sustainable Infrastructure (CESI)
• Computer Science and Engineering
  • Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)
  • Computer Science and Engineering -- Accelerated Masters Program (CSE M)
  • Computer Science and Engineering -- Data Science (CSE D)
  • Computer Science and Engineering -- Professional Masters Program (CSE P)
• Electrical Engineering (E E)
• Engineering (ENGR)
• Human Centered Design and Engineering
  • Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE)
  • Technical Communication (T C)
• Industrial Engineering (IND E)
• Materials Science and Engineering (MS E)
• Mechanical Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering (M E)
  • Mechanical Engineering Industrial Engineering (MEIE)

College of the Environment

• Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (FISH)
• Atmospheric Sciences (ATM S)
• College of the Environment
  • College of the Environment (C ENV)
  • Friday Harbor Labs (FHL)
  • Science Teaching (SCI T)
• Earth and Space Sciences (ESS)
• Program on the Environment (ENVIR)
• School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
  • Bioresource and Science Engineering (BSE)
  • Environmental Science and Resource Management (ESRM)
  • Paper Science and Engineering (PSE)
  • School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS)
• School of Marine and Environmental Affairs (SMEA)
• Oceanography (OCEAN)
• Quantitative Science (Q SCI)
• Quaternary Sciences (QUAT)

College of Forest Resources -- See College of the Environment

The Information School

• Informatics (INFO)
• Information Management and Technology (IMT)
• Information School Interdisciplinary (INFX)
• Information Science (INSC)
• Information Technology Applications (ITA)
• Library and Information Science (LIS)

Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs

• Biomolecular Structure and Design (BMSD)
• Data Science (DATA)
• Graduate School (GRDSCH)
• Human-Computer Interaction Design (HCID)
• Individual PhD (IPHD)
• Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB)
• Molecular Engineering (MOLENG)
• Museology (MUSEUM)
• Near and Middle Eastern Studies (N MES)
• Neurobiology and Behavior (NEUBEH)
• Neuroscience (NEURO)
• Nutritional Science (NUTR)
• Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management (QERM)
• Quaternary Sciences (QUAT) -- See College of the Environment
• Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STSS)

Interschool or Intercollege Programs

• Bioengineering
  • Bioengineering (BIOEN)
  • Medical Engineering (MEDENG)
  • Pharmaceutical Bioengineering (PHARBE)
• Global Health (G H)
• University Conjoint Courses (UCONJ)

School of Law

• Law (LAW)
• Law A (LAW A)
• Law B (LAW B)
• Law C (LAW C)
• Law E (LAW E)
• Law (Health) (LAW H)
• Law (Intellectual Property) (LAW P)
• Law (Taxation) (LAW T)

School of Medicine

• Anesthesiology (ANEST)
• Biochemistry (BIOC)
• Bioethics and Humanities (B H)
• Biological Structure (B STR)
• Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education (BIME)
• Comparative Medicine (C MED)
• Conjoint Courses (CONJ)
• Family Medicine (FAMED)
• Genome Sciences (GENOME)
• Global Health (G H)
• Human Biology (HUBIO)
• Immunology (IMMUN)
• Laboratory Medicine (LAB M)
• MEDEX (MEDEX)
• Medicine, Department of
  • Emergency Medicine (MED EM)
  • Medicine (MED)
  • Medicine Elective Clerkships (MEDECK)
  • Medicine Required Clerkships (MEDRCK)
• Medical Science (MEDSCI)
• Microbiology (MICROM)
• Neurological Surgery (NEUR S)
• Neurology (NEURL)
• Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB GYN)
• Ophthalmology (OPHTH)
• Orthopaedics (ORTHP)
• Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (OTOHN)
• Pathology (PATH)
• Pediatrics (PEDS)
• Pharmacology (PHCOL)
• Physiology and Biophysics (P BIO)
• Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (PBSCI)
• Radiation Oncology (R ONC)
• Radiology (RADGY)
• Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Prosthetics and Orthotics (RHB PO)
  • Rehabilitation Medicine (REHAB)
• Surgery (SURG)
• Urology (UROL)

School of Nursing

• Nursing
  • Nursing (NSG)
  • Nursing (NURS)
  • Nursing Clinical (NCLIN)
  • Nursing Methods (NMETH)

School of Pharmacy

• School of Pharmacy
  • Medicinal Chemistry (MEDCH)
  • Pharmaceutics (PCEUT)
  • Pharmacy (PHARM)
  • Pharmacy Practice (PHARMP)
  • Pharmacy Regulatory Affairs (PHRMRA)

Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance

• Public Affairs (PB AF)
• Public Affairs Executive MPA (PA EX)
• Public Policy (PUBPOL)
• Public Policy and Management (PPM)

School of Public Health

• Biostatistics (BIOST)
• Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
  • Environmental Health (ENV H)
• Epidemiology (EPI)
• Global Health (G H)
• Health Services
  • Health Informatics and Health Information Management (HIHIM)
  • Health Services (HSERV)
  • Health Services Management (HSMGMT)
• Nutritional Science (NUTR) -- See Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs
• Pathobiology (PABIO)
• Public Health Genetics (PHG)
• School of Public Health (SPH)

Reserve Officers Training Corps Programs

• Aerospace Studies (A S)
• Military Science (M SCI)
• Naval Science (N SCI)

Social Work

• Social Welfare BASW (SOC WF)
• Social Welfare (SOC WL)
• Social Work (MSW) (SOC W)

Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Programs

• Arctic Studies (ARCTIC)
• Honors (HONORS)
• Program on the Environment (ENVIR) -- See College of the Environment
• Quantitative Science (Q SCI) -- See College of the Environment