Undergraduate Degrees
Emerson College offers 39 majors and 26 minors in the communication and arts disciplines.
In addition to Emerson's established majors, Emerson's Interdisciplinary Studies program allows students to design their own major. The Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies is also home to Emerson's highly competitive Honors Program.
International Study and External Programs provides internship opportunities in Los Angeles and Washington D.C., and study abroad programs in London, The Netherlands, China, and Prague.
Majors
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Communication Studies
Journalism
Marketing Communication
Performing Arts
- Acting
- Design/Technology
- Musical Theatre Performance
- Stage and Production Management
- Theatre Education
- Theatre Studies
Visual and Media Arts
- Animation and Motion Media
- Cinematography/Videography
- Directing Narrative Fiction
- Documentary Production
- Experimental Media Production
- Film
- Interactive Media
- Post-Production
- Producing
- Radio
- Sound Design/Audio
- Studio Television Production
- Writing for Film and Television
- Media Studies
Writing, Literature and Publishing
Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies
Minors
If you feel like you've got more than one passion that you'd like to pursue here at Emerson, you're not alone. In fact, many Emersonians find that selecting a minor can help supplement their major, and help design their perfect discipline.
- Business Studies for Communication and the Arts
- Dance
- Entrepreneurial Studies
- Fiction
- Health Communication
- Hearing and Deafness
- History
- Journalism
- Leadership and Management
- Literature
- Marketing Communication: Advertising and Public Relations
- Music Appreciation
- Performance Studies
- Philosophy
- Photography
- Poetry
- Political Communication
- Political Science
- Post-Colonial & Global Studies
- Publishing
- Psychology
- Science
- Sociology
- Visual Studies and the Arts
- Women's & Gender Studies
- Writing

