Each individual's talents, point of view, and passion for learning enrich the intellectual processes in classrooms, laboratories, and other settings across campus. You can take advantage of a wide array of curricula and course offerings. Carolina offers more than 1,600 courses each year, most of them taught in small class groups. Students learn to write poetry, study the history of jazz, analyze advanced mathematical equations, examine how religion has influenced the development of art, and much, much more. Carolina's library system offers extensive on-site reference works as well as access to major electronic databases and resource systems, including FactSearch, OCLC FirstSearch, the ARL Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Lists, and the Periodical Contents Index.
Interlibrary services connect the system to libraries nationwide and worldwide.
And our students use and even help create on-line resources that make research quick and stimulating. With holdings of almost five million books and periodicals, Carolina's nationally ranked libraries offer students and researchers a wealth of primary and secondary sources of information. In quiet study rooms, at computer terminals, or in elegant marble-columned halls, students can discover the latest research findings in a journal published last week or lose themselves in writings from another century. In addition to the major Academic Affairs Library, there are specialized libraries throughout campus, including libraries for art, music, law, business, archaeology and anthropology, geology, and the health sciences. Special collections in rare books, maps, and Southern and North Carolina history make our libraries unique.