New Collegiate Division

The New Collegiate Division provides a place for academic experiments, courses, and programs that range across disciplines, departments, and divisions. The Division locates and defines coherent areas of study that cut across the familiar academic boundaries and which form the basis for a rigorous educational program. Each program is designed to equip you with the skills and experiences you need to approach a wide range of problems with advanced competency.

Contact

Dennis Hutchinson

Master, New Collegiate Division
Harper Memorial Library 235
dhutchis@uchicago.edu

Susan Rueth

Administrative Assistant
Harper Memorial Library 235
773-702-7148
rueth@uchicago.edu

Summer Positions for Majors

We encourage you to seek summer positions that allow you to gain experience and further your education outside the classroom. The following links provide information on employment opportunities for undergraduates:

Career Advancement

Fellowships, Research opportunities and Grants

Majors

Fundamentals: Issues and Texts

Major

The Fundamentals program enables students to concentrate on fundamental questions by reading classic texts that articulate and speak to these questions. It seeks to foster precise and thoughtful pursuit of basic questions by means of rigorous training in the interpretation of important texts, supported by extensive training in at least one foreign language, and by the acquisition of the knowledge, approaches, and skills of conventional disciplines: historical, religious, literary, scientific, political, and philosophical.

College Catalog

Departmental Site

Law, Letters, and Society

Major

The program in Law, Letters, and Society is concerned with law in civilian and customary legal systems, both historically and contemporaneously. The program’s organizing premise is that law is a tool of social organization and control, not simply an expression of will or aspiration, and that it is best understood by careful study of both rhetorical artifacts and empirical consequences of its application.

College Catalog

Religious Studies

MajorMinor

Religious Studies engages perennial questions about religion and human society, and investigates religions and how they shape and are shaped by human cultures. The program in Religious Studies exposes students to different sources, problems, and methodologies in the study of religion and is designed for students who wish to take interdisciplinary approaches to the study of religion.

College Catalog

Departmental Site

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Tutorial Studies

Major

Tutorial Studies provides an alternative for students who are able to propose a coherent course of studies that clearly do not fit within a regular major. Students in the College may be admitted to Tutorial Studies at any point in their careers; their requirements will then be written to fill the time they have left until graduation. Students have no major; instead, all students have a tutor – a member of the Chicago faculty who develops a course of study with the student under the general supervision of the program chairman.

College Catalog