Please refer to the UMass Lowell Online Undergraduate Course Catalog for requirements specific to each degree. Please see below for more information on the College's full list of majors and minors.
The departments within the College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences offer programs leading to Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Music, and Bachelor of Liberal Arts degrees, coinciding with your specific major.
Undergraduate Majors
- General Option
- Thematic Option
- Animation & Interactive Media Concentration
- Studio Art Concentration
- General Option
- Crime & Mental Health Option
- Homeland Security Option
- Police Option
- Elementary and Moderate Disabilities Concentration
- Creative Writing Concentration
- Journalism & Professional Writing Concentration
- Literature Concentration
- Theatre Arts Concentration
- Composition for New Media: B.M.
- Music Business: B.M.
- Music Performance: B.M.
- Music Studies: B.M.
- Sound Recording Technology: B.M.
- General Option
- Communications & Critical Thinking Option
- Philosophy & Religious Studies Option
- General Concentration
- Behavior Analysis Concentration
- Developmental Disabilities Concentration
- Community Social Psychology Concentration
- Clinical Psychology Concentration
- Health Psychology Concentration
- General Concentration
- Policy & Social Problems Concentration
- French Option
- French/Spanish Option
- Italian/Spanish Option
- Spanish Option
Undergraduate Minors
- American Studies2
- Arabic Studies2
- Architectural Studies2
- Art
- Art: Art History
- Art: Graphic Design
- Asian Studies2
- Criminal Justice
- Digital Media2
- Disability Studies2
- Economics
- Education
- English
- Environment and Society2
- Film Studies2
- French
- Gender Studies2
- German Studies2
- History: B.A.
- Labor Studies
- Latin American Studies2
- Legal Studies2
- Medieval and Renaissance Studies2
- Music
- Peace and conflict Studies2
- Philosophy
- Political Science
- Portuguese Studies2
- Psychology
- Race and Ethnic Studies2
- Sociology
- Sound Recording Technology
- Spanish
- Spanish for the Professions Minor
- Sports Studies2
- STEM Teaching
- Technology, Society and Human Values2
- Theatre Arts2
- Writing
Student Profiles
![Laura Cabrera sings jazzy rhythm and blues and original compositions as "Queen Laura" at El Taller, a literary café in Lawrence](/Images/laura-cabrera1400_tcm18-288190.jpg?w=m)
Laura Cabrera's studies in philosophy and psychology have given her great personal insight - and the confidence to pursue a creative career in music, art and dance.
![Sean Perry at University Crossing](/Images/sean-perry1600_tcm18-303681.jpg?w=m)
After earning a master's degree in criminal justice, Sean Perry plans to pursue a Ph.D. in criminology with the ultimate goal of becoming a professor or private sector or government researcher whose studies could help improve police departments or criminal justice systems.
![Lisett Córdoba Pren poses in her graduation cap and gown](/Images/Lisett-Co%CC%81rdoba-Pren-1400_tcm18-370924.jpg?w=m)
Lisett Córdoba Pren found support to overcome personal tragedy and earn a degree.
![Honors College students Lindsay Blount, Kale Connerty and Erin Monahan work at the Thoreau Institute library with curator Jeffrey S. Cramer.](/Images/erin-monahan1600_tcm18-301406.jpg?w=m)
Erin Monahan finds value in learning principles applicable to a wide range of arts and humanities-based organizations. She is getting professional experience as an archivist through an internship at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods.
![Lisa Thompson presents her criminology research to two men at a research symposium at UMass Lowell.](/Images/Lisa-Thompson-env_tcm18-326886.jpg?w=m)
Her Ph.D. research at UMass Lowell won Lisa Thompson a rare research assistantship at the National Institute of Justice.