To officially declare a major in Arts & Sciences the College Registrar will need to receive a completed Declaration of Major form through DocuSign (which can be found on the College Student Forms page). The form will need to be approved by the department before it is routed to the College Registrar in DocuSign. Before you start filling out any forms, please reach out to the Declaration of Major Contact in the department that you would like to declare a major in. Departments may have different steps in their processes and you need to make sure that you are following those processes as the department specifies.
To declare a Minor you will need to check with the department contact below to confirm the department's procedure.
African-American and African Studies
Lisa Shutt
[email protected]
American Sign Language
Gregory Propp
[email protected]
American Studies
Jack Hamilton
[email protected]
Anthropology
Adria LaViolette
[email protected]
Archaeology
Tyler Jo Smith
[email protected]
Art
Art History
Eric Ramirez-Weaver
[email protected]
Studio Art
Akemi Ohira
[email protected]
Astronomy, Astronomy-Physics
Steven Majewski (Undergraduate B.S. Astronomy-Physics Major Advisor)
[email protected]
434-924-4893 | Astronomy Building 251B
Ed Murphy (Undergraduate B.A. Astronomy Major Advisor)
[email protected]
Paul Torrey (Astronomy Minors Advisor)
[email protected]
Bioethics (minor only)
Nichole Flores
434-243-3937 | Gibson Hall, S-433
Biology
Lisa Ishler
[email protected]
Biology, Human
Michael Timko
[email protected]
Chemistry
Cindy Knight
[email protected]
Classics
Coulter George
[email protected]
Cognitive Science
Eric Dynarski
[email protected]
Computer Science
Please read https://bit.ly/bacs-declaring before contacting anyone regarding a Computer Science major.
Tom Horton
[email protected]
Drama
L. Douglas Grissom
[email protected]
434-243-7752 | Drama Building 211
East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures & East Asian Studies
Jack Chen
[email protected]
Economics
English
Before you start the DocuSign process, please visit https://english.as.virginia.edu/undergraduate/howtodeclare for information on declaring an English major. If you understand the major requirements and do not need assistance filling out the declaration form, you may do so and submit the form without contacting Prof. Andrew Stauffer in advance.
Susan Fraiman
[email protected]
434-960-7337
Area Program in Poetry Writing
Brian Teare
[email protected]
434-924-6619 | Bryan Hall 433
Area Program in Literary Prose
James Livingood
[email protected]
434-924-6675 | Bryan 422B
Environmental Sciences
To declare a major in Environmental Sciences, you will need to first set up an online meeting with one of the faculty members below by sending them an email. The hours listed are their virtual office hours that are available each week for these meetings. Please determine which day/time coincides best with your schedule before reaching out. If none of the listed times work, please contact Robert Davis ([email protected]).
Lauren Simkins
[email protected]
205 Clark | 924-3964
Monday, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m
Charity Nyelele
[email protected]
212 Clark
Tuesday, 2 - 3 p.m.
Tom Smith
[email protected]
342 Clark | 924-3107
Thursday, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Robert Davis
[email protected]
386B New Clark | 924-0579
Friday, 11 a.m. - noon.
Environmental Thought and Practice
Paul Freedman
[email protected]
French
Jennifer Tsien
[email protected]
https://french.as.virginia.edu/undergraduate
German
Julia Gutterman
[email protected]
Global Studies
Global Public Health
Tracey Brookman
[email protected]
Global Development Studies
David Edmunds
[email protected]
Security and Justice
Peter Furia
[email protected]
Environments and Sustainability
Phoebe Crisman
[email protected]
Middle East South Asia
Tessa Farmer
[email protected]
Global Commerce in Culture and Society
Richard Handler
[email protected]
History
Jennifer Sessions
[email protected]
Interdisciplinary Major
Shawn Lyons
[email protected]
Italian
Linda Newman
[email protected]
Jewish Studies
Jennifer Geddes
[email protected]
Latin American Studies
Linguistics
Mathematics
To Declare a Major/Minor:
- Last name begins with A-D: Abdelmalek Abdesselam
- Last name begins with E-H: Peter Abramenko
- Last name begins with J-L: Peter Humphries
- Last name begins with M-P: Nicholas Kuhn
- Last name begins with Q-T: Tai Melcher (Fall); Yen Do (Spring)
- Last name begins with U-Z: Leonid Petrov (Fall); Andrei Rapinchuk (Spring)
Media Studies
Julie Gronlund
[email protected]
Medieval Studies
Deborah McGrady
[email protected]
Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages and Cultures
Tishanna Johnson
[email protected]
Music
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Physics
For information about declaring a major or minor in Physics, please visit http://www.phys.virginia.edu/Education/undergrad.asp, or email [email protected].
Poetry
Political and Social Thought
Political Philosophy, Policy and Law
Colin Bird
434-924-3615
Gibson Hall S495
Politics
Portuguese (minor only)
Psychology
Religious Studies
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Sociology
South Asian Languages and Cultures
See Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages and Cultures above