The New College of Florida’s undergraduate program offers 47 different Areas of Concentration (AOCs) for its students to receive a degree in. The College’s humanities, science and social science divisions are all exceptionally well-developed. The scale of the school, however, sometimes means it’s difficult to…
Independent study projects (ISPs) are one of the many academic practices unique to New College of Florida. As the name suggests, it is a primarily student-led process. Students propose their own project, write the parameters for which they’ll be evaluated, find a faculty sponsor for…
In fall 2019, a joint-disciplinary Area of Concentration (AOC) in neuroscience will be offered to pair with any primary AOC. Pursuing this program will equip students with a diverse understanding of the mind’s sensory, motor and cognitive phenomena at the cellular level and the systemic…
Something stressed to prospective students as a strong feature of the academic landscape at New College is the ability to create an area of concentration (AOC). Third-year Sabrina Finn recently finalized her AOC, “Interdisciplinary Studies of Language,” after two years of struggling to navigate the…
Did you come to New College under the impression that you would be able to carve out your own Creative Writing AOC? Were you disappointed to discover that not only would it be impossible given our faculty, but that even if we had the resources…
