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Departments and Units

The University of Michigan as we know it started with LSA. In 1841, the university held its first classes in Ann Arbor with a handful of students, featuring a curriculum rooted in literature, science, and the arts—a revolutionary approach that viewed the world through many lenses instead of just one.

Today, with more than 85 majors and over 100 minors, LSA is the largest and most academically diverse of U-M’s 19 schools and colleges—and is still at the heart of the university.

The college is built upon the idea that a powerful, pragmatic, broad education can transform hearts and minds, can solve problems in an ever-changing world, and can yield ideas and innovation across every discipline.

Explore the breadth and depth of LSA through the departments and units below:

 

A

African Studies Center

Afroamerican and African Studies, Department of (DAAS)

American Culture

Ancient History

Ancient Philosophy

Anthropology

Anthropology and History

Applied Physics Program

Arab and Muslim American Studies

Asian Languages and Cultures

Asian/Pacific Islander American (A/PIA) Studies Program

Astronomy

B

Barger Leadership Institute

Bear River Writers' Conference

Biological Station (UMBS)

Biology

Biophysics

C

Center for Armenian Studies

Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS)

Center for Social Solutions

Center for the Study of Black Youth in Context (CSBYC)

Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Chemistry

Chinese Studies, Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for (LRCCS)

Classical Studies

Communication and Media

Comparative Literature

Comprehensive Studies Program

Computing for the Arts and Sciences, Program in

Computer Science

Contexts for Classics

Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

D

Donia Human Rights Center

Digital Studies Institute

E

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB)

Economics

Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies (EIHS)

English Language and Literature

English Language Institute (ELI)

Environment, Program in the (PITE)

European Studies, Center for (CES)

F

Film, Television, and Media

G

Germanic Languages and Literatures

Global Change Program

Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC)

Global Scholars Program (GSP)

H

Health Science Scholars Program (HSSP)

Helen Zell Writers' Program

Herbarium

History

History of Art

Honors Program

I

Informatics

Institute for the Humanities

Interdepartmental Program in Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology (IPAMAA)

Intergroup Relations (IGR)

International and Comparative Studies, Program in (PICS)

International Institute

J

Japanese Studies, Center for (CJS)

Judaic Studies, Frankel Center for

K

Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

 

 

L

Language Resource Center

Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for (LACS)

Latina/o Studies Program

Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Linguistics

Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

LSA Travel

LSA Technology Services

M

Mathematics

Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Mediterranean Perspective on Global History and Culture

Michigan Community Scholars Program (MCSP)

Michigan Institute for Research in Astrophysics (MIRA)

Michigan in Washington Program (MIW)

Michigan Learning Communities (MLC)

Michigan Research and Discovery Scholars (MRADS)

Middle East Studies

Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Center for (CMENAS)

Modern Greek

Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB)

Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Museum of Natural History

Museum of Paleontology

Museum of Zoology

Museum Studies

N

Nam Center for Korean Studies (NCKS)

National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID)

Native American Studies Program

O    

optiMize

Opportunity Hub

Organizational Studies

P

Philosophy

Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Program in (PPE)

Physics

Political Science

Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP)

Psychology

Q

Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS)

R

Raoul Wallenberg Institute

Residential College

Romance Languages and Literatures

Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Center for (CREES)

S

Science Learning Center (SLC)

Science, Technology, and Society Program (STS)

Semester in Detroit

Slavic Languages and Literatures

Sociology

South Asian Studies, Center for (CSAS)

Southeast Asian Studies, Center for (CSEAS)

Statistics

Summer Programs

Sweetland Center for Writing

T

Program in Transcultural Studies

Transfer Student Center

U

Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP)

Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience

W

Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies (WCED)

Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia (WCEE)

Women in Science and Engineering (WISE)

Women in Science and Engineering residence program (WISE RP)

Women's and Gender Studies

World Performance Studies, Center for (CWPS)