Programs
Academic Programs
Flexible Education for Your Diverse Interests
Lesley's comprehensive general education program gives you a strong liberal arts foundation in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. You'll have great flexibility and choice to fulfill requirements—and a wide variety of options when deciding your major.
Real World Experience for Real Learning
Internship experiences are the hallmark of your Lesley education. Combined with small seminars, you'll embark on "hands-on" field experiences from the very first year. Internships are designed to challenge your assumptions about yourself and the world, and give the kind of experience that provides growth—for you and your resume.
Moving Toward an Exciting Future
Our combination of liberal arts coursework and hands-on experience prepares you for the real world—whether that is starting a career, or continuing your education in graduate school.
- Art History
- Art Therapy (Program Overview [PDF])
- Art Minors
- Biology (Program Overview [PDF])
- Business Management (Program Overview [PDF])
- Child Studies
- Communications (Program Overview [PDF])
- Counseling (Program Overview [PDF])
- Creative Writing (Program Overview [PDF])
- Earth Science
- Education (Program Overview [PDF])
- Early Childhood Education
- Elementary Education
- Middle School Education
- Secondary Education
- Special Education
- English (Drama, Literature) (Program Overview [PDF])
- Environmental Science (Program Overview [PDF])
- Environmental Studies (Program Overview [PDF])
- Expressive Arts Therapy (Program Overview [PDF])
- Global Studies: Politics, Culture, and Society (Program Overview [PDF])
- Health
- History (Program Overview [PDF])
- History and Literature (Program Overview [PDF])
- Holistic Psychology (Program Overview [PDF])
- Human Services
- Mathematics
- Modern Languages
- Music
- Political Science
- Psychology (Program Overview [PDF])
- Self-Designed
- Social Work
- Sociology and Social Change
- Women's Studies
Academic Catalog [PDF]
Highlights
- Angela Vierling-Claassen gave a talk titled "Using Mathematics to Understand the Spread of Acceptance of Lesbians and Gay Men" at the Joint Mathematics Meetings on January 7th, 2012.
- Anne Pluto had her short story "Hartsfield Jackson, I'm Going Back to Atlanta" published online.
Anne also had her poems "Oz" and "Summer" published in Earth Daughter's Anniversary Issue. In January, Anne presented her workshop "Creating a Shakespeare Musical—Working from the Dream State" at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. - Dr. Linda Dacey co-authored The Xs and Why of Algebra with Dr. Anne Collins (SOE). Aimed at teachers of grades 7-9, the professional resource volume was published in January by Stenhouse Publishers. Dr. Dacey also co-authored the article "Common Core State Standards for Mathematics: The Big Picture," which appears in this month's issue off the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' journal Teaching Children Mathematics. Linda and Dr. Drew Polly, University of North Carolina, were invited to write this introductory article to a series of five articles about the Common Core that will be published over the next few months.

