Schools
The building blocks of a diverse and dynamic education.
The College of Charleston is a mid-sized university made up of six separate undergraduate schools. Through our general education curriculum – and your own intellectual curiosity – you’ll probably take classes in all of them.
School of the Arts
The School of the Arts is composed of four major departments (art history, music, studio art, and theatre and dance) and two innovative programs - arts management, and historic preservation and community planning. The school’s 100 faculty members are professional artists, musicians and arts administrators, and its 650 majors and talented graduate students are a source of artistic inspiration to the rest of the campus and the Charleston community.
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School of Business
The School of Business instructs undergraduate and graduate students in the essential critical thinking, leadership and communication skills they will need to be responsible, ethical contributors to the global marketplace. The school offers five undergraduate majors (accounting, business administration, economics, hospitality and tourism management, and international business), a master of science in accountancy, a master of business administration and several minors and concentrations such finance and entrepreneurship. The school also administers the Honors Program for a select group of high-achieving undergraduate business majors.
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School of Education, Health, and Human Performance
The School of Education, Health, and Human Performance is home to the Department of Teacher Education and the Department of Health and Human Performance. The teacher education program prepares undergraduate and graduate students for successful, fulfilling careers in early childhood, primary, middle level, secondary and special education. The health and human performance program carries out the College’s mission to educate the whole student — mind and body — through majors in physical education and athletic training.
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School of Humanities and Social Sciences
The School of Humanities and Social Sciences is the heart of the College of Charleston’s liberal arts and sciences education. The largest of the College’s six schools, it encompasses nine different departments (communication, English, history, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology, anthropology and religious studies, as well as a popular program in urban studies) that together offer dozens of undergraduate majors and interdisciplinary minors, as well as four graduate programs.
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School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs
The School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs was born of a desire to formalize the College’s commitment to global education. LCWA is home to the most comprehensive undergraduate foreign language program in the Southeast. The Department of International and Intercultural Studies offers majors in Latin American and Caribbean studies, Jewish Studies, International Studies, 10 minors and five “critical languages” (Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Hindi and Russian). LCWA faculty also lead numerous study-abroad trips.
School of Sciences and Mathematics
The School of Sciences and Mathematics consists of six departments that offer 12 undergraduate degree programs (including the only undergraduate data science major in the country) and five graduate degree programs. Students majoring in the field of health sciences benefit from a full-time academic advisor, and marine biology majors thrive at the school’s Grice Marine Laboratory. In the spring of 2010, the biology and chemistry departments moved into their new home, a 125,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art science center.
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