Integrated Studies Degree (BS)
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This degree includes a well-rounded general education curriculum combined with a variety of career focus areas in business, technology, and healthcare for you to choose from. In this program you will:
- make the greatest use of your previous college credits while still focusing on a specific career field;
- refine your critical and creative thinking skills and incorporate them into sound decisions making processes;
- develop interpersonal and group communication skills;
- learn how to effectively utilize technology.
Select the Curriculum and Program Outcomes tabs for more information about what you will learn in this program.
Curriculum
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Bachelor’s Degree
Course # Title Credits Area of Study 40 Professional Courses
Course # Title Credits MGMT 210 Managing Behavior in Organizations 3 MGMT 230 Financial Systems for Management 3 MGMT 260 Project Management 3 ECON 205 Microeconomics OR 3 ECON 210 Macroeconomics COMM 340 Organizational Communication 3 BLAW 140 Business Law 1 3 Professional Course Total: 18 General Education
Course # Title Credits COMM 130 Interpersonal Communication 3 COMM 270 Intercultural Communication 3 ENGL 111 Critical Reading & Expository Writing (CREW) I 3 ENGL 112 Critical Reading & Expository Writing (CREW) II 3 ENGL 315 Writing in the Workplace 3 HIST 210 Legacy of World Civilization I 3 MATH 115 Fundamentals of Mathematics OR MATH 120 College Algebra 3 OR MATH 180 Statistics PHIL 340 Ethics in the Professions 3 PHIL 210 Critical Thinking 3 PSYC 100 Intro to Psychology 3 Fine Arts Elective 3 Natural Science w/Lab 4 Writing or English Elective 3 General Education Course Total: 40 General Electives Total: 22 Total Credits: 120
Program Outcomes
Upon completion, graduates with a bachelor's degree in Integrated Studies should be able to:
- Successfully manage and interpret interactions with fellow organization members;
- Effectively perform within one's area of expertise using a combination of knowledge, skills and behaviors;
- Prioritize, set and meet goals based on objectives and availability of limited resources;
- Apply fundamental financial concepts to interpret an organization's economic performance;
- Examine basic contracts for appropriate content;
- Apply the concepts of supply and demand, markets and pricing to an organization;
- Evaluate and integrate a variety of material to create unique perspectives;
- Systematically analyze available information to produce data-driven responses to problems;
- Explore the ethical aspects of a decision to create sensitivity to the relevant issues and weigh the considerations that might impact the choice of a course of action.
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Career Outlook
Time and again studies show that the more education you have, the better off you will be. You will have more job opportunities open to you, starting salaries will be higher, and your earnings over time will dramatically increase. In fact, many studies say the difference in lifetime earnings between a person with a high school diploma and a bachelor’s degree can be over a million dollars!
