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Summary of Curricula Offered





                           Applied Arts | Liberal | Graduate Curricula
                               and      |  Arts   | 
        Majors              Sciences   |  and    | 
                                        | Sciences| 
                              BA    BS  |  BA     |MA,MFA  MS  PhD
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   Accountancy..............            (         (        MS           
 # Accounting...............        BS  (         (  
   Aerospace engineering....        BS  (         (        MS
   Afro-American studies....            (   BA    ( 
   American studies.........            (   BA    (                     
   Anthropology.............            (   BA    (MA                    
   Applied mathematics......            (         (        MS            
   Art......................  BA        (   BA    (MA,MFA                 
   Asian studies............            (   BA    (MA                    
   Astronomy................        BS  (   BA    (        MS           
   Biology..................        BS  (   BA    (MA      MS  PhD 
   Business administration..            (         (MBA     MS 
   Business administration/
    Latin American studies..            (         (MBA/MBA            
   Chemical physics.........        BS  (         (                  
   Chemistry................        BS  (   BA    (MA      MS  PhD 
   Child development........        BS  (         (        MS         
   City planning............            (         (MCP         
   Civil engineering........        BS  (         (        MS            
   Classics.................            (   BA    (                  
   Communication............  BA        (   BA    (MA                 
   Communicative disorders..            (   BA    (MA                  
   Comparative literature...            (   BA    (                  
   Computer science.........        BS  (         (        MS             
   Counseling...............            (         (        MS            
   Creative writing.........            (         (MFA 
   Criminal justice
    administration..........        BS  (         (                  
   Dance....................            (   BA    (                  
   Drama....................  BA        (         (MA,MFA 
   Ecology..................            (         (            PhD 
   Economics................            (   BA    (MA                
   Education................            (         (MA          PhD 
   Electrical engineering...        BS  (         (        MS           
   Engineering..............            (         (            PhD 
   English..................            (   BA    (MA                 
   Environmental health.....        BS  (         (                    
   European studies.........            (   BA    (                   
 # Finance..................        BS  (         (                  
 # Financial services.......        BS  (         (                  
   Foods and nutrition......        BS  (         (                  
   French...................            (   BA    (MA                
   Geography................            (   BA    (MA          PhD 
   Geological sciences......        BS  (         (        MS        
   German...................            (   BA    (                 
   Gerontology..............            (   BA    (                  
   Health science...........        BS  (         (                   
   History..................            (   BA    (MA                
   Humanities...............            (   BA    (                  
 # Information systems......        BS  (         (                  
   International business...            (   BA    (                  
   International security & 
    conflict resolution.....            (   BA    (
   Japanese.................            (   BA    (
   Journalism...............            (   BA    (                     
   Latin American studies...            (   BA    (MA                   
   Liberal arts.............            (         (MA
   Liberal studies..........            (   BA    (                     
   Linguistics..............            (   BA    (MA                   
 # Management...............        BS  (         (                    
 # Marketing................        BS  (         (                    
   Mathematics..............        BS  (   BA    (MA                  
   Mathematics and science
    education...............            (         (            PhD 
   Mechanical engineering...        BS  (         (        MS           
   Mexican American studies.            (   BA    (                     
   Microbiology.............        BS  (   BA    (        MS          
   Music....................        BM  (   BA    (MA/MM          
   Nursing..................        BS  (         (        MS           
   Nutritional sciences.....            (         (        MS          
 # Operations management....        BS  (         (                   
   Philosophy...............            (   BA    (MA                 
   Physical education.......        BS  (         (MA      MS            
   Physical science.........        BS  (         (                   
   Physics..................  BA    BS  (         (MA      MS           
   Political science........            (   BA    (MA
   Psychology...............            (   BA    (MA      MS  PhD 
   Public administration....            (   BA    (   MPA             
   Public health............            (         (    MPH,MS  PhD 
   Radiological health
    physics.................            (         (        MS             
 # Real estate..............        BS  (         (                  
   Recreation 
    administration..........        BS  (         (                  
   Rehabilitation 
    counseling..............            (         (        MS             
   Religious studies........            (   BA    (                  
   Russian..................            (   BA    (                   
   Russian and Central
    European studies........            (   BA    (                   
   Social science...........            (   BA    (                   
   Social work..............            (   BA    (      MSW           
   Social work/Public 
    health..................            (         (   MSW/MPH         
   Sociology................            (   BA    (MA                  
   Spanish..................            (   BA    (MA                  
   Special major............            (         (MA      MS            
   Statistics...............        BS* (         (        MS           
   Television,film and new
    media production........        BS  (         (MA                  
   Urban studies............            (   BA    (                   
   Vocational education.....        BVE (         (MA                 
   Women's studies..........            (   BA    (MA*                
 ________
 # An emphasis within the B.S. in Business Administration 
 * Subject to systemwide approval 
 

Emphases and Concentrations

An emphasis or concentration is defined as an aggregate of courses within a degree major designed to give a student specialized knowledge, competence, or skill. Completion of an emphasis or concentration is noted on the student's transcript and diploma for undergraduate students.


BACCALAUREATE MAJORS

Art  (BA, Liberal Arts and Sciences)
Emphases:
 art history
 studio arts

Art (BA, Applied Arts and Sciences)
Emphases:
 applied design
 environmental design
 graphic design
 interior design
 painting, printmaking, and photography
 sculpture

Biology  (BS, Applied Arts and Sciences)
Emphases:
 cellular and molecular biology
 ecology
 evolution and systematics
 marine biology
 zoology

Chemistry (BS, Applied Arts and Sciences)
Emphasis:
 biochemistry

Classics  (BA, Liberal Arts and Sciences)
Emphases:
 classical humanities
 classical language

Communication (BA, Applied Arts and Sciences)
Emphases:
 advertising
 media management
 public relations
 telecommunications and film
 
Drama (BA, Liberal Arts and Sciences)
Emphases:
 children's drama
 design for drama
 design for television and film
 performance

Geography (BA, Liberal Arts and Sciences)
Emphases:
 methods of geographical analysis
 natural resource and environmental geography
 physical geography
 urban and regional analysis

Geological Sciences
(BS, Applied Arts and Sciences)
Emphases:
 engineering geology
 geochemistry
 geophysics
 hydrogeology
 marine geology
 paleontology

Health Science  (BS, Applied Arts and Sciences)
Emphasis:
 community health education

Humanities  (BA, Liberal Arts and Sciences)
Emphasis:
 European humanities

International Business(BA, Liberal Arts and Sciences)
Emphases:
 language
 regional/cultural studies

Mathematics (BS, Applied Arts and Sciences)
Emphases:
 applied mathematics
 computer science

Microbiology (BS, Applied Arts and Sciences)
Emphasis:
 medical technology and public health microbiology

Public Administration
(BA, Applied Arts and Sciences)
Emphasis:
 city planning

Recreation Administration
(BS, Applied Arts and Sciences)
Emphases:
 outdoor recreation
 recreation systems management
 recreation therapy

Social Science (BA, Liberal Arts and Sciences)
Emphases:
 Africa and the Middle East
 environment

GRADUATE MAJORS

Art (MA)
Concentrations:
 studio arts
 art history

Biology (MA or MS)
Concentrations:
 ecology
 molecular biology
 physiology
 plant sciences
 systematics evolutionary biology

Business Administration (MS)
Concentrations:
 finance
 financial and tax planning
 human resource management
 information systems
 international business
 management
 marketing
 production and operations management
 real estate
 taxation
 total quality management

Communicative Disorders (MA)
Concentrations:
 speech-language pathology
 audiology
 education of the deaf
 communicative sciences

Drama (MFA)
Concentrations:
 acting
 design and technical theatre
 musical theatre

Education (MA)
Concentrations:
 counseling
 educational leadership
 educational research
 educational technology
 elementary curriculum and instruction
 policy studies in language and cross-cultural education
 reading education
 secondary curriculum and instruction
 special education

Geography (MA)
Concentrations:
 resources and environmental quality
 transportation

Nursing (MS)
Concentrations:
 community health nursing
 critical care nurse specialist
 nursing systems administration

Psychology (MS)
Concentrations:
 clinical psychology
*industrial and organizational psychology
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 *Application for admission to this concentration  
  has been suspended for the 1995-96 academic year.

Public Administration (MPA)
Concentrations:
 city planning
 criminal justice administration
 public telecommunications administration

Public Health
Concentrations (MPH):
 biometry
 environmental health
 epidemiology
 health promotion
 health services administration
 maternal and child health
 occupational health
Concentrations (MS):
 environmental health science
 industrial hygiene
 toxicology

Statistics (MS)
Concentration:
 biostatistics
 

Credentials Offered

Teaching Credentials
 Adapted physical education
 Multiple subject
 Multiple subject cross-cultural, language and academic development (CLAD) 
   emphasis
 Multiple subject bilingual cross-cultural language and academic development 
   (BCLAD) Emphasis: Spanish
 Single subject
 Single subject cross-cultural, language, and academic development (CLAD) 
   emphasis
 Single subject bilingual cross-cultural language and academic development 
   (BCLAD) Emphasis: Spanish
 
Specialist Credentials
 Reading/language arts
 Resource specialist certificate of competence
 Special education:
 Communication handicapped
 Gifted
 Learning handicapped
 Physically handicapped
 Severely handicapped
 
Service Credentials
 Administrative
 Clinical or rehabilitative
 Health services: 
   school nurse
 Pupil personnel:
   school counseling
   school psychology
   school social work
         

Minors for the Bachelor's Degree

Accounting
Advertising
Aerospace studies
African studies
Afro-American studies
American Indian studies
American studies
Anthropology
Art
Art history
Asian studies
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Child development
Chinese
Classics
Communications
Communicative disorders
Comparative literature
Computer science
Dance
Drama
Economics
Educational technology
Energy studies
Engineering
English
Environment and society
European studies
Finance
French
Geography
Geological sciences
German
Gerontology
Health science
History
History of science and technology
Humanities
Information systems
Italian
Japanese
Judaic studies
Journalism
Latin American studies
Linguistics
Management
Marketing
Mathematics
Media Management
Mexican American studies
Middle East studies
Military science
Music
Naval science
Oceanography
Operations Management
Philosophy
Physical education
Physics
Political science
Portuguese
Psychology
Public administration
Public relations
Real estate
Recreation
Religious studies
Russian
Small business management 
  (Imperial Valley Campus only)
Social work
Sociology
Spanish
Television, film and new media
United States-Mexican border studies
Women's studies
 

Special Curricula

Preprofessional Curricula
 Predental
 Prelegal
 Premedical
 Preveterinary
 
Military Curricula
 Aerospace studies (AFROTC)
 Military science (ROTC)
 Naval science (NROTC)

Certificate Programs (nondegree)

Certificate in accounting
Certificate in applied linguistics and English as a second language (ESL)
Certificate in applied Gerontology
Certificate in art (Imperial Valley Campus only)
Certificate in bilingual (Spanish) special education
Certificate in business administration (Imperial Valley campus only)
Certificado de Español Comercial
Certificat pratique de franais commercial et Žconomique
Certificate in children's literature
Certificate in cross-cultural language and academic development (CLAD)
Certificate in early intervention
Certificate in exercise leadership
Certificate in family life education
Certificate in geographic information systems
Certificate in human services paraprofessional
Certificate in instructional software design
Certificate in instructional technology
Certificate in introductory mathematics
Certificate in personal financial planning
Certificate in preventive medicine residency
Certificate in professional services bilingual/multicultural
Certificate in public administration (Imperial Valley campus only)
Certificate in recombinant DNA technology
Certificate in rehabilitation administration
Certificate in single subject mathematics
Certificate in court interpreting (Imperial Valley campus only)
Certificate in Spanish translation studies
Certificate in supported employment and transition specialist
Certificate in teaching the emotionally disturbed/behaviorally disordered
Certificate in technical and scientific writing
Certificate in translation studies
Certificate in United States-Mexico border studies
Certificate in workforce education and lifelong learning

The following programs are available through Extension only

Certificate in community ecomomic development
Certificate in conStruction inspection technology
Certificate in construction practices
Certificate in applied consultancy
Certificate in applied court interpreting
Certificate in government contract management
Certificate in human resources management
Certificate in legal assistance management
Certificate in medical office procedures
Certificate in meeting and events planning
Certificate in operations resource3 management
Certificate in occupational health and saftey management
Certificate in telecommunications
Certificate in trauma recovery services




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