Starfleet Academy courses

The following is a list of courses and subjects given at Starfleet Academy.

Named courses

A

• Academy Extension Course #4077
• Advanced Botany
• Advanced Hand-to-Hand Combat
• Advanced Navigation
• Advanced Phonology
• Advanced Relativistic Mechanics
• Advanced Subspace Geometry
• Anatomical and Forensic Pathology
• Ancient Philosophies
• Anthropology
• Archaeology
• Astrogation
• Astrotheory 101
• Astrophysics
• Astrosciences

B

• Basic Warp Design
• Basic Hand-to-Hand Combat
• Beam Technology
• Biochemistry
• Botany

C

• Communications
• Creative Writing

E

• Early Starfleet History
• Earth History
• Elementary Temporal Mechanics
• Engineering
• Exobiology/Xenobiology
• Exochemistry

F

• Forensic Psychology
• Fractal Calculus

I

• Inter-stellar Ethnology
• Interspecies Ethics
• Interspecies Protocol
• Intrasystem Peacekeeping Operations

K

• Klingon Physiology

M

• Medicine

O

• Organic Chemistry

P

• Plasma physics

Q

• Quantum Chemistry

R

• Robotics

S

• Statistical Mechanics
• Stellar Cartography
• Survival Strategies

T

• Tactical Analysis
• Temporal Mechanics
• Turn-of-the-Millennium Technology
• Transporter Theory

W

• Warp Theory

X

• Xenolinguistics

Additionally, the script for Star Trek also mentioned navigational comp.

Required reading

• The Prime Directive
• Starfleet General Orders and Regulations
• The exploits of Fleet Captain Garth
• The translations of Dr. Roger Korby
• The military strategies of Klingon General Korrd
• The Picard Maneuver, a battle tactic devised by Jean-Luc Picard
• The judicial decisions of Judge Aaron Satie

Publications

• The Art of War, writings of Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu
• The Fall of Kang by the Klingon poet G'Trok

Although it is probably safe to assume all cadets read the Prime Directive and General Orders, it has not been established whether the same is true of the other texts, or whether they are required merely for students in specific courses. This may explain why Benjamin Sisko was familiar with "The Fall of Kang," while Piersall was not in "Second Sight".

Further assignments

• Field training
• Training cruise

Extension courses

• Emergency Medical Course, Starfleet
• Engineering extension course
• Tactical Training, Advanced

Unnamed courses

Space walking

A six week course in the third year involving space walks. (VOY: "Day of Honor")

Latin

A course on the Latin language is taught at Starfleet Academy. (TNG: "The Game")

Members of Red Squad, a program for elite cadets, received special classes, which may or may not be included in the above listings.