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Choose from 45 majors, minors and programs, including interdisciplinary majors, self-designed courses of study and majors with multiple emphases.Sabrina Degnan ’19 Named Top Candidate for NCAA Woman of the Year
Track and field and volleyball star Degnan is the first Oxy athlete to be a top candidate for this prestigious award.New Issue of Occidental Magazine
The Oxy Campaign for Good, chemistry advances in the lab of Professor Mike Hill, 25 years of the Child Development Center and more.
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Occidental provides a springboard for putting theory into practice and ideas into action.
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Oxy’s remarkable faculty of scholars, teachers and mentors are at the heart of the intellectual experience. An Oxy liberal arts education transcends boundaries, and with more than 40 majors and programs, academic rigor comes in many forms.
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The Oxy Community
Whether in the lab, classroom, field or community, our faculty, students and alumni define the strengths and uniqueness of Oxy in everything that they do.
Faculty
Meet Ross Lerner of English, who teaches courses on 14th- through 17th-century British literature, poetry and poetics, and the history of race and punishment.
Ross Lerner
English
Student
Kevin Conroy, a history and East Asian studies major, has leveraged various funding opportunities at Oxy to research his Chinese family history and conduct oral histories about the era of the Cultural Revolution.
Kevin Conroy
History, East Asian Studies, Chinese Studies | Class of 2020
Student
Elena Daniel, a premed student, is inspired by the connections between public health and kinesiology. This is reflected by her urban internships and ongoing faculty-mentored research projects at Oxy.
Elena Daniel
Kinesiology, Public Health, Biology | Class of 2020
Student
Máté Major came to Oxy from Hungary, succumbing to the siren call of the Comparative Studies in Literature & Culture department. Diving in deep through the Summer Research Program, he hasn’t looked back.
Máté Major
Comparative Studies in Literature & Culture | Class of 2022
Student
Rahsaan Middleton has worked to build community on campus through his involvement with the Muslim Student Association.
Rahsaan Middleton
Biology | Class of 2019
Student
Kate Grossmann studied abroad in Hungary through the uniquely rigorous Budapest Semester in Mathematics program, which introduced her to a new culture and showed her what it means to seriously pursue math.
Kate Grossmann
Mathematics | Class of 2020
What’s Happening at Oxy
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