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Carleton offers a Bachelor of Arts in 39 majors. Students may also design their own major with faculty guidance and approval.

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Students may elect to earn a concentration in addition to their major. Concentrations usually focus on issues that cut across the boundaries of two or more academic disciplines.

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  • Turing Morocco: Matt Cotter '15, Marielle Foster '16 and Ken Schiller '15
    February 16, 2015 at 10:58 am

    Computer science trio advances to programming finals in Morocco

    As three of Carleton's computer science standouts head to Morocco for a prestigious programming tournament, their achievement reflects a growing number of students—especially women—exploring the major.

  • N55 pods
    February 16, 2015 at 2:26 pm

    N55 at Carleton: artistic residency and class become an exhibition

    A hectic design lab, connecting a Danish art collective N55 and Carleton students, was transformed on February 6 into a polished exhibition featuring the proposal for a hypothetical new Arboretum Center. On view in Perlman Teaching Museum through March 11, the exhibition reveals the design process incorporating research regarding the Arboretum’s history, Northfield community perspectives on “the Arb”, and experimental structural models. ...