Business & Economics
Students in this major have the opportunity to engage in customer segmentation studies, develop a strategic marketing plan, design advertising or promotional plans for firms, and even close some sales.
Marketing
Concentrations for this major include:
Political Science
Potential career opportunities for this major include:
Peace & Conflict Studies
Students in this major learn about trends and issues in the field, characteristics and needs of students with disabilities, specialized teaching methods, strategies for collaboration with parents/families and colleagues, and technology applications that support student learning.
Special Education
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Music
This major teaches students to become innovative and responsible professionals in one of the largest business sectors in the world and can lead to a variety of fulfilling careers including hotel management, travel agent, meeting planner, tour guide, etc.
Hospitality & Tourism Management
This major centers on developing and applying a scientific understanding of mind and behavior in four major areas: clinical, cognitive, developmental, and social.
Psychology
This major prepares students for careers in voluntary and community health organizations, public health nutrition, health care, government, worksite wellness programs, and the fitness industry.
Nutrition
This major prepares future teachers for NC licensure in grades 6–9 and includes an essential understanding of middle-grade students and schools, rigorous content-area knowledge, and exemplary teaching practice.
Middle Grades Education
Concentrations for this major include:
Art
Students in this major secure positions that include commercial lender, personal banker, financial planner, stock analyst, stockbroker, financial analyst, treasurer, credit analyst, and capital budgeting director.
Finance
Graduates in this major are employed in a wide range of fields and are well prepared for further study in graduate school or in health-related professions such as medicine, dentistry, and veterinary medicine.
Biology
Graduates in this major work as therapeutic recreation specialists, recreation programmers, aquatic therapists, athletic program supervisors, inclusion facilitators, campus recreation coordinators, community center managers, event planners, park managers, senior center coordinators, youth activity directors, etc.
Recreation & Parks Management
This major is a cohort-based program. Students gain about 1,000 hours of hands-on experience by graduation (three semesters of approximately 10 hours/week in a classroom setting and a fourth semester spent student teaching).
Elementary Education
This major has an ongoing relationship with Triad Stage, a nonprofit professional theatre, that offers students internships in stage management, assistant directing, acting, and theatre management.
Drama
After completing foundation courses, students can choose from one of nine profiles, supported by more than 50 courses across campus:
Entrepreneurship
This major explores human communication as a means of connecting people, creating change, and working toward a just world.
Communication Studies
Students in this major learn to engage with others at the intersection of person and environment, race, class, gender identity, and sexual orientation to promote healthy functioning for individuals, families, groups, and communities.
Social Work
Graduates in this major enter professions such as teacher, sign language interpreter, deaf services specialist, vocational rehabilitation counselor, disability service coordinator, community advocate, parent educator, job placement specialist, telecommunications specialist, and independent living counselor.
Professions in Deafness
This major has a curriculum that integrates teaching, scholarship, and artistry, and affirms the centrality of the body as a locus for knowledge, and the experiential basis for learning resulting in diverse outcomes.
Dance
Careers of former graduates in this major include Systems, Applications, & Products (SAP) trainer, network specialist for a global communication firm, Web developer, senior programming analyst, production control specialist for an electronics company, etc.
Information Systems & Supply Chain Management
This major fosters an understanding of the relationships between human societies and the natural, physical, and biological settings in which life on Earth exists. Choose from two concentrations: Natural Sciences and Equity, Development & Ethics.
Environment & Sustainability
This major provides a foundation in the core areas of social and behavioral sciences, epidemiology, public health statistics, environmental health, and health policy/administration.
Public Health Education
The major is a good fit for students with strong technology skills who enjoy working with people. Majors will graduate prepared for a variety of careers, including knowledge management, web and database design, information architecture, IT training and development, Graphic Information Systems, and information consulting.
Information Science
This major is for students wanting to lead and make a difference in the arts. Students graduate ready to pursue careers in arts and cultural organizations, arts-related businesses, or start their own entrepreneurial venture in the arts.
Arts Administration