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Asian Studies
Offers a broad range of opportunities for students to learn about Asia including course work spanning seven countries and seven departments, a Major and a Concentration in Asian Studies, and study abroad programs in several Asian countries.
Biology Department
Offers students a rigorous education in all aspects of modern biology. Course offerings and faculty research interests span all the major sub-disciplines and experimental approaches of biology at scales of organization from molecules to ecosystems.
Classics Department
With fifty majors studying both Greek and Latin, the Classics Department at Holy Cross is the largest undergraduate Classics program in the United States, and offers a wide range of courses.
Department of Chemistry
According to the American Chemical Society, Holy Cross is one of the nation's top producers of ACS certified chemistry graduates. Our curriculum combines a solid background in fundamental principles with hands-on experience using state of the art laboratory equipment.
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
The Department offers courses in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. Major programs, consisting of at least ten semester courses on the intermediate level or above, are offered in French, German, Russian, and Spanish; Chinese may be incorporated in an Asian Studies major.
Department of Psychology
Students are provided a curriculum structured to ensure a foundation in both the natural science and social science perspectives within psychology.
Department of Public Safety
The Public Safety staff provides a comprehensive program of police, security, crime prevention, fire safety, emergency medical service, parking and traffic enforcement and related services.
Department of Religious Studies
Religious Studies has a two-fold function, that of serving the general student body in a liberal arts college and that of preparing students who wish to concentrate in the area of religious studies for their future work.
Economics and Accounting Department
The Economics Department offers majors in two distinct subject areas: economics and economics-accounting. Also offered is a select honors program.
Education Department
Students majoring in Biology, Chemistry, English, French, History, Latin, Mathematics, Physics, or Spanish, may prepare to become teachers of those subjects.
Environmental Studies Program
Students will study the causes, mechanisms and effects of environmental problems by investigating the relevant natural processes and the interplay between the environment and human social, political and economic institutions.
Gerontology Studies Program
Gerontology Studies is a cooperative academic program, involving five schools in the Colleges of Worcester Consortium. The Program addresses the aging process, the experience of older people, and the diversity of services to the elderly. The main elements in the program are courses, internships, research opportunities, and career planning.
Graphic Arts Department
A full service reproduction department designed to supply the Holy Cross community with high quality printing, quick turnaround copier service with high speed copiers, digital color copier, and a complete modern mailing service with barcoding capabilities, at a reasonable price.
Health Service Department
Health care services and programs are focused on wellness and prevention. This includes: urgent care, specialty referral, health education and community service.
Holy Cross Navy ROTC
This site has been established to introduce you to our unit and answer any questions you may have about achieving a commission as an officer in the Navy or Marine Corps through the NROTC program at Holy Cross.
Mathematics and Computer Science Department
The inherent structure and beauty of mathematics is at the core of all mathematical inquiry, yet the language of mathematics is also the language of the sciences and social sciences. In our increasingly technology driven society, mathematics and computer science are becoming part of our daily public discourse.
Pre-Medical/Pre-Dental Program
More than 2,000 Holy Cross alumni are practicing medicine, dentistry, and veterinary medicine throughout the word today. Holy Cross students have been accepted at almost every medical school in the country, and our alumni occupy important positions throughout the entire medical establishment.
Study Abroad Program
The College strongly encourages students to consider the option of studying abroad in their third year as an integral part of their college career. Study Abroad programs and policies reflect the College's educational mission and provide an exciting and fully credited complement to the many programs available to students on campus.
The Philosophy Department
The Department offers courses in the history of philosophy which span the entire tradition from the pre-Socratics to the philosophers of our own century.
Theatre Department
A lively and thriving department whose greatest asset is its small size. The limited number of majors served permits students to take maximum advantage of scholarly and production opportunities and allows us to track their individual progress carefully.
Visual Arts Department
Holy Cross' offerings in the visual arts enable students to deepen their sensitivity to the arts, refine their powers of critical analysis, and create art of their own using an expansive array of tools and media.