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Academically Based Community Service Courses
Undergraduate | BA
As an urban university, Penn is in a unique position to go beyond “traditional” service learning and develop academically based community service learning. The program seeks to advance student learning and research, educate students for democratic citizenship, improve scholarship and teaching and make a significant contribution to the wider community. Approximately 140 courses from diverse schools and disciplines across the University are engaged, through the Center for Community Partnerships, in work throughout West Philadelphia—particularly in the public schools.

Accounting - Doctoral
Graduate | PHD
Wharton's doctoral program in Accounting prepares graduates to contribute to accounting research, a specialized area of financial economics. Research by faculty and doctoral students in the Accounting Department focuses on the impact of accounting information and policy making on capital market behavior, on the behavior of decision-makers within the firm, and on the structure of firms.

Accounting - MBA
Graduate | MBA
The Accounting major within the Wharton curriculum is good preparation for those considering careers in corporate finance, treasury, investment banking, or private equity. Accounting may also be useful for those interested in careers in investment management, hedge funds, trading, consumer finance, and the government and military sectors. The major also fulfills the requirements for the CPA (Certified Public Accountant) or CMA (Certified Management Accountant). Many accounting students pursue a double major in finance.

Accounting - Undergraduate
Undergraduate | BS
Accounting at the Wharton School offers courses in financial, managerial and cost accounting, tax planning, auditing, international accounting, accounting for decision-making and control and accounting for mergers and acquisitions. Although strong quantitative skills and attention to detail are important qualities for an accounting concentration, students need to acquire other skills as well. Many students find the accounting concentration to be useful preparation for careers in consulting, investment banking, general management, public accounting, and securities analysis.

Actuarial Mathematics
Graduate, Undergraduate | BS, MBA, PHD
Actuarial science is the mathematical modeling of all pure-risk phenomena. It is concerned with such issues as determining annuity and insurance benefits, premiums, reserves and expenses. Insurance companies, private corporations, and the government must also determine the best ways to develop pension funds and manage their risks.

Actuarial Science - Undergraduate
Undergraduate | BS
Wharton's actuarial science concentration stands at the intersection of risk and money. Actuaries are experts in evaluating the likelihood and financial consequences of future events, designing creative ways to reduce the probability of undesirable events, and decreasing the impact of tragic events that do occur. They are in great demand by insurance companies, consulting firms, financial institutions. A student with strong mathematical aptitude graduating with an actuarial science concentration will be prepared to pass the first three examinations given by the Society of Actuaries.

Advanced Management Program (AMP) - Wharton Executive Education
Graduate
The Wharton School's Advanced Management Program (AMP) is designed for senior executives who are leading or being groomed to lead the enterprise. The program offers a process for linking visionary leadership with strategic execution and provides future CEO’s with a unique opportunity to create a global network of peers. Past participants say that it is an experience without parallel and that the benefits of the program continue to add value throughout their professional and personal lives.

African Studies
Graduate, Undergraduate
The African Studies Center is devoted to the study of African culture, both past and present, from a growing variety of perspectives and disciplines. Students may pursue Africanist training through history, language, politics, religion and other liberal arts and social science courses. Geographically, these courses span the continent and extend beyond it into the various African diasporas. Theoretically and methodologically, they involve comparative, interdisciplinary study of African peoples and institutions.

Africana Studies
Undergraduate | BA
Africana Studies examines the cultural, political, social and historical experiences of peoples of the African diaspora. The program offers an integrated understanding and appreciation for the African, African-American, Caribbean and other African diaspora experiences. The Program is part of the Center for Africana Studies and places primary emphasis on the ways that African diaspora experiences and traditions have functioned on a global scale and resonated within the spaces of a variety of national projects.

American Civilization
Graduate
The core of the Graduate Group program consists of a year-long seminar designed to provide students with a basic understanding of the different histories that the different peoples of the different cultures in America have both experienced and produced.

American Public Policy
Undergraduate
This program enables undergraduates interested in American Public Policy to construct an integrated program between the School of Arts and Sciences and the Wharton School. Graduates of the University of Pennsylvania with an American Public Policy Minor are expected to be in great demand by government agencies at all levels, consulting companies, and government relations departments of private sector firms.

Ancient History
Graduate | PHD
THE GRADUATE GROUP IN ANCIENT HISTORY is a program that coordinates a curriculum encompassing the whole of the ancient history of the Near East and the Mediterranean Basin. It has as its aim the preparation of candidates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Ancient Studies
Undergraduate
Both the University of Pennsylvania's College of Arts & Sciences and the University Museum of Anthropology & Archaeology house an extraordinary array of distinguished scholars who represent as a group virtually every major area in the study of antiquity, including languages, political, economic, cultural and art history, anthropology, philosophy, and science, in both the Old & New Worlds. The Center for Ancient Studies, by bringing these scholars together, focuses their intellectual resources into an organizational body where creative interdisciplinary activity in teaching and research will be explored.

Anthropology
Graduate, Undergraduate | AM, MS, PHD
Anthropology is the study of human diversity. As a discipline, it comprises four distinct subdisciplines or fields: cultural anthropology (primarily concerned with living societies); archaeology (which focuses on past—and often prehistoric—societies); biophysical anthropology (exploring the interaction between culture and human biological variability); and linguistic anthropology (emphasizing variability in language and the role of language in culture). Penn takes a “four-field” approach to the study of anthropology, emphasizing the integration of these four subdisciplines. The major strength of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania is its high quality across all four fields: Archaeology, Cultural, Linguistic, and Physical. The department maintains active undergraduate and graduate programs.

Architecture
Graduate
The department has emphasized the link between theoretical speculation, professional practice, and artistic expression. A full spectrum of education in the discipline of architecture is currently offered in four degree programs: Doctor of Philosphy, Ph.D.; Master of Science, M.S.; Master of Architecture, M.Arch.; and Bachelor of Arts, B.A. [through the College of Arts and Sciences].

Architecture
Undergraduate | BA
Architecture is a studio-based liberal arts program offering two concentrations. The concentration in design includes a three-year sequence of design studios combined with courses in art history and architectural theory. The concentration in history, theory and criticism includes a two-year sequence of design studios and courses in art history combined with additional coursework in art history, architectural theory and related subjects. Studios teach analytical methods, representational skills and imaginative invention through drawing and the construction of three-dimensional models.

Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
Graduate | PHD
The Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World trains graduate students in the field of Mediterranean archaeology by providing them with a program of study that combines courses and field experience.

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Graduate, Undergraduate | AM, PHD
The undergraduate program in AMES offers language training and courses in the culture, history, literature, and archaeology of East Asia, the Middle East, and the Indo-Iranian world concentration. This program has become two separate programs. See Near East Languages and Literatures, and East Asian Languages and Literatures. The graduate program in AMES deals with three major areas, Indo-Iran, the Middle East, and China and Japan (a graduate program in Korean is planned for the future), and all of its programs focus mainly upon language, philology, and the study of civilization and culture (Egyptology offers in addition a concentration in archaeology). Each provides training for the Ph.D. and A.M. degrees

Asian American Studies
Undergraduate
Asian American Studies explores the historical and contemporary experiences of Asian immigrants and of persons of Asian ancestry in North America, and the relevance of those experiences for understanding race and ethnicity in national and global contexts. The program introduces students to the methods and concerns of a wide spectrum of disciplines: anthropology and ethnography, economics, history, law, literature, sociology and demography, political science, and urban studies, as well as creative and expository writing.