College of Business Administration
Accounting
Accounting is the language of business. Using their analytical and problem-solving skills, accountants provide big-picture thinking and an understanding of how financial data impacts every aspect of the organization. The accounting program prepares students for a wide range of professional careers in public accounting, industry and finance, and in specialty areas such as forensic accounting and fraud examination and government and non-profit accounting.
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Economics
Finance
Finance is concerned with the valuation and exchange of assets over time. It combines elements of accounting, economics and statistics to analyze financial problems and decisions. Finance questions addressed include asset pricing, financing and choice of alternative investment opportunities, domestic and international financial institutions and markets, corporate governance, and risk management.
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Information Systems
Blends experience using leading edge information technologies with business knowledge to address business problems and illustrate the value of business/IT alignment. Emphasis areas include: accounting information systems, business intelligence, electronic commerce, enterprise resources planning, enterprise security, and logistics information systems.
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Management
Emphasizes the integrative nature of the management discipline in planning, leading, organizing, and controlling contemporary profit and non-profit organizations. Emphases include entrepreneurship/small business, hospitality, human resources, and operations.
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Marketing
Provides students with an awareness of the marketing problems confronting today’s business firms, some knowledge and experience in application of the tools and techniques of marketing problem solving, and a more detailed knowledge of one or more specific areas of the marketing discipline. Emphases include fashion merchandising, retailing and sales management.
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Logistics
College of Health and Human Sciences
Athletic Training
Prepares students to enter the allied health profession of Athletic Training. Students experience a variety of clinical experiences working with collegiate and high school athletic teams. Through course work students observe orthopedic surgery, emergency room, and general medical procedures.
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Child and Family Development
Provides students foundation and practicum experiences to work with individuals and families across the life span in three emphasis areas: child development, child life, and family services.The major prepares students for career opportunities in child and family services and includes jobs in family life education, youth development, preschool education, rehabilitation, child care administration, child life, aging and family care, and other human/social service fields. To compliment the major, students may choose minors or concentrations such as recreation, psychology, international studies, Spanish, justice studies, business, and public relations.
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Exercise Science
Focuses upon the study of how and why exercise affects the human body. Students interested in a career in physical therapy often major in exercise science. Careers include fitness/wellness centers, research labs, and cardiac and physical rehabilitation centers.
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Fashion Merchandising / Apparel Design
Provides students two emphasis areas: fashion merchandising or apparel design. The major focuses on the diverse careers in the fashion industry such as merchandising & buying, fashion promotion, apparel design, styling & visual merchandising, computer aided design, and product development. Students may choose various minors or emphasis areas such as business, public relations, sustainability, and art to accommodate their major.
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Interior Design
Gives students curriculum, studios and field experiences in interior design, including formal course work in design, materials and systems, lighting, CAD and textiles. Careers include corporate design, residential design, space planning, furniture design, lighting design, historic preservation.
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Nursing
Provides students a comprehensive and innovative bachelor of science in nursing program that promotes health and quality of life using a global perspective. Students in the nursing program learn through classroom and diverse clinical experiences.
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Nutrition and Food Science
Recreation
Sports Management
College of Engineering and Information Technology
Civil Engineering
Prepares students for careers in the environmental, structural, and transportation design areas of the discipline in the local, state, regional, national, and international markets. This degree is of particular importance as increasing emphasis is placed on improving infrastructure.
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Computer Science
Provides students with a solid foundation in the design, implementation, and application of computer software systems, an understanding of the concepts of computer science and functional background in computer hardware and understanding in math.
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Construction Management
Construction Management prepares individuals to be leaders in the construction industry. Construction managers facilitate the design and construction of projects by managing resources; understanding construction contract law and the various forms of dispute resolution; being knowledgeable of safety standards; and having a solid understanding of estimating construction costs and scheduling of construction project activities.
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Electrical Engineering
Information Technology
Prepares tomorrow’s IT innovators and digital problem-solvers who will lead America’s fastest growing career field. Specialization areas include Information Management, Web and Multimedia Foundations, and Networking and Datacenter Administration.
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Manufacturing Engineering
The Manufacturing Engineering (MfgE) curriculum is hands-on and career- oriented. Students gain broad, practical knowledge in the major areas of Manufacturing Engineering. Manufacturing engineers work closely with mechanical, electrical and other engineers as a member of the design team to ensure manufacturability of the product while considering recycling and other aspects of the product life cycle. They also concentrate on the facilities, equipment, processes and methods necessary for the efficient and safe production of products in a globally competitive environment. Manufacturing engineers direct and coordinate the processes for transforming materials into products and guide the design, and conduct analysis and modification of product design to ensure the viability of the design for manufacturability.
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Mechanical Engineering
Blends classroom instructions with hands on experience. Emphases include mechanical design analysis, material science/manufacturing processing, thermal-fluid-energy sciences, computer aided engineering graphics and analysis/ electro-mechanical devices and controls with an emphasis in technical measurements.
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College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Anthropology
Provides student opportunities to engage with each of the four major areas of anthropology – cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and biological anthropology. These areas encompass study of social processes across the world, from all time periods. Successful majors will develop a broad based understanding of the human condition.
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Art
Provides students areas of study in animation, art history, ceramics, drawing, illustration, graphic communications management, graphic design, jewelry, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. Degrees include Art History, Studio Art, 2D (Drawing, Painting, Print, Paper & Book Arts), 3D (Ceramics, Sculpture & Jewelry/Small Metals), Graphic Design and Graphic Communications Management.
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Communication Studies
English
Trains students to think critically and communicate effectively. English majors analyze texts— poems, stories, novels, essays, and other literary works— and find new ways to understand them. This analytic skill can be applied practically on the job, as well as the superior writing skills that English majors are famous for. Many English majors also possess creative, flexible minds that can offer fresh approaches to situations in several workplaces.
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General Studies
The Bachelor of General Studies program provides opportunities for nontraditional college students who are interested in combining a liberal arts background with some degree of specialization. It offers a solid core curriculum program along with the freedom to choose from a wide range of concentrations. While the General Studies degree allows for study in several areas, it is organized to provide an academically sound program with carefully planned concentrations. The student who earns this degree will have achieved a broad-based education that meets high standards of learning. The program is administered by the Academic Advisement Center.
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Graphic Design
The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design prepares students for careers in today’s creative and innovative society. Students are challenged with visual problem solving process to generate successful solutions to commercial, cultural, global, and social communication problems. Visual communication solutions typically include: complex identity and branding systems, publications and layout, motion sequences, advertising, retail products, architectural signage, information structures, websites and interactive displays. Along with coursework, professional opportunities and practical experience are a cornerstone of the program that provide the students with a portfolio that will enable them to enter the industry.
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History
International Studies
Provides an undergraduate, interdisciplinary social science background for careers both inside and outside the United States. Emphases include Modernization, Development, and Environment ; Security, Conflict, and Diplomacy; and Society, Cultures, and Tradition.
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International Trade
Provides an interdisciplinary business background for careers outside the United States or in international businesses and agencies within the United States. The degree will require completion of a prescribed course of study and an internship overseas or with a business or institution having an international component in the United States.
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Journalism
Justice Studies
Modern Languages
Multimedia Communication
Music
Philosophy
Requires students to learn views held by various philosophers and by doing so, excel in understanding principal points from complex material, evaluate the soundness of the arguments involved and, most important of all, justify his or her own position on any given topic. These skills are extremely valuable to employers from a variety of fields and professions.
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Political Science
Political Science is the study of government and focuses on its structure and function and the necessity for human social order. Political Science study attempts to provide the student with a better understanding of political parties, interest groups, international relationships,justice, and power. Political Science trains students to be observers of political behavior in their home country and around the world.
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Psychology
Public Relations
Sociology
Sociology is the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior. Sociologists investigate the structure of groups, organizations, and societies, and how people interact within these contexts. Since all human behavior is social, the subject matter of sociology ranges from the intimate family to the hostile mob; from organized crime to religious cults; from the divisions of race, gender and social class to the shared beliefs of a common culture; and from the sociology of work to the sociology of sports. Sociology provides many distinctive perspectives on the world, generating new ideas and critiquing the old. The field also offers a range of research techniques that can be applied to virtually any aspect of social life: street crime and delinquency, corporate downsizing, how people express emotions, welfare or education reform, how families differ and flourish, or problems of peace and war. Because sociology addresses the most challenging issues of our time, it is a rapidly expanding field whose potential is increasingly tapped by those who craft policies and create programs.
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Theatre
Writing & Linguistics
College of Science and Mathematics
Biology
Prepares students for careers as professional biologists and emphasizes study in cellular/ molecular biology, conservation biology, genetics, ecology, evolution, medical entomology, and physiology.
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Chemistry
Combines student-centered classes, broad based laboratory instruction and opportunities for research in analytical chemistry, biochemistry, carbohydrate chemistry, chemical education, food chemistry, organic synthesis and physical chemistry
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Geography
Provides students the opportunity to study the rich variety of events, peoples, landscape, climate, and biology that characterize the Earth’s surface. Geographers use geospatial tools to understand relationships between place and every aspect of life on the planet.
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Geology
Provides students a curriculum to understand how the Earth works and to apply this knowledge to unraveling the planet’s history and anticipating its future. Geologists work to find solutions to many of humanity’s most important issues including water and mineral resources, hazards mitigation, and understanding the Earth’s climatic system.
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Mathematics
Provides opportunity to learn analytical and computational skills that prepare students for careers in actuarial science, engineering, computer programming, operations research, mathematics education and many other areas. In addition, mathematics majors are typically some of the top performers on exams for medical, dental, business and law school.
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Physics
Provides basic undergraduate physics/astronomy education that will prepare students for a variety of careers in industry or science education, and also includes excellent preparation for pursuing an advanced degree in physics. Physics majors have a unique opportunity to participate in cutting-edge research in close collaboration with world-class faculty.
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