Academic Division / Penrose Library

📚 Learn, Collaborate and Explore 📚

At Whitman, we do academics differently. Our faculty are here to challenge and support students. Students collaborate with peers, not compete. Whitman provides the tools and resources for students to thrive in their academic exploration with 60+ majors, minors and concentrations of study and a robust library of resources. Penrose Library provides access to over 500,000 books as well as being part of the inter-library loan system which connects students with 26 other colleges and universities with access to 22 million books.

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Division I, Social Sciences
Anthropology, Economics, Environmental Studies, History, Politics, Psychology, Sociology

Division II, Humanities and Arts
Art History and Visual Cultural Studies, Chinese, Classics, English, Environmental Humanities, Film and Media Studies, Gender Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies, Japanese Studies, Music, Philosophy, Race and Ethnic Studies, Rhetoric, Writing and Public Discourse, Theatre

Division III, Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Astronomy, Biochemistry Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geology, Mathematics, Physics