Majors, Minors, Certificates and Degrees
Program outcomes
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Majors
Indicates accelerated graduate program is available for students in this major.
A
- Accounting (BS)
- Agricultural Business (BS) Options: Agricultural Enterprise Management; Agricultural Finance and Management; Agricultural Marketing and Sales
- Agricultural Communications (BS)
- Agriculture Education (BSEd)
- Animal Science (BS)
- Anthropology (BA, BS) Minor Required
- Art (BFA) Options: 3D Studies, Computer Animation, Drawing, New Media, Painting, Photography, Printmaking
- Art Education (BSEd)
B
- Biology (BA, BS) Minor Required
- Biology (BS) Options: Environmental Biology and Evolution; Microbiology and Biotechnology; Pre-Teacher Education; Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
- Biomedical Sciences (BS)
- Business Education (BSEd)
C
- Chemistry (BS) Minor Required
- Chemistry (BS) Options: Biochemistry, Chemistry
- Child and Family Development (BS) Options: Child Development; Child Life; Family Studies; Youth Development
- Clinical Laboratory Sciences-Medical Technology (BS)
- Communication Sciences and Disorders (BS) Options: Audiology; Speech-Language Pathology
- Communication Studies (BS)
- Community and Regional Planning (BS)
- Computer Science (BS) Minor Required. Options: Computer Science; Software Development
- Construction Management (BS)
- Criminology and Criminal Justice (BA, BS)
- Culture, Literature, and Media (BA, BS)
D
- Dance (BS) Minor Required
- Data Analytics (BS)
- Design (BFA) Options: Graphic Design; Graphic Design and Illustration; Illustration; Sequential Art
- Digital Film and Television Production (BS)
E
- Early Childhood Education (BSEd)
- Economics (BA, BS) Minor Required
- Economics (BS)
- Electronic Arts (BS) Art and Design Department. Options: Computer Animation Studies; Interactive New Media Studies
- Electronic Arts (BS) Communication, Media, Journalism and Film Department. Options: Audio Studies, Video Studies
- Elementary Education (BSEd)
- Engineering Program (BS) (cooperative program with Missouri University of Science and Technology, degree awarded by the Missouri University of Science and Technology)
- English (BA, BS) Minor Required. Options: Creative Writing, Literature
- English Education (BSEd)
- Entertainment Management (BS)
- Entrepreneurship (BS)
- Environmental Plant Science (BS) Options: Crop Science; Horticulture; Plant Breeding and Biotechnology
- Equine Science (BS)
- Exercise and Movement Science (BS) Options: Health Studies, Pre-Professional
F
- Family and Consumer Sciences (BSEd)
- Finance (BS) Options: Corporate and Investments; Financial Planning; Fintech
G
- General Agriculture (BS, BAS) Options: Agricultural Communications, Agriculture
- General Business (BS)
- General Studies (BGS)
- Geography and Sustainability (BA, BS) Minor required
- Geography and Sustainability (BS) Minor not required
- Geology (BS)
- Geology (BS) Minor Required
- Geospatial Sciences (BS)
- Gerontology (BS)
- Global Studies (BA)
H
- Health Services (BS) Options in Clinical Services, Health Services
- History (BA, BS) Minor Required
- History (BSEd)
- Hospitality Leadership (BAS)
- Hospitality Leadership (BS) Options: Club Management; Food and Beverage; General Operations; Lodging; Senior Living Management; Tourism
- Human Resource Management (BS)
I
- Individualized Major (BA, BAS, BS)
- Information Technology (BS) Options: Application Development; Cybersecurity; IT Infrastructure
- Interior Design (BS)
- International Business (BS)
J
- Journalism (BS) Minor Required
M
- Management and Leadership (BS)
- Marketing (BS) Options: Advertising and Promotion; Marketing Management; Marketing Research; Professional Sales
- Mathematics (BA) Minor Required
- Mathematics (BS)
- Mathematics (BS) Minor Required. Options: Actuarial Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, General Mathematics, Statistics
- Mathematics (BSEd)
- Mechanical Engineering Technology (BS)
- Merchandising and Fashion Product Development (BS) Options: Fashion Design; Merchandising
- Middle School Education (BSEd) Options: Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Sciences
- Modern Language (BS) Minor Required
- Modern Language (BS) Options: Applied Business, Second Language, Teacher Certification, Translation
- Music (BA, BS) Minor Required
- Music (BMus) Options: Composition, Instrumental Performance, Jazz Performance, Keyboard Performance, Vocal Performance
- Music-Instrumental (BME)
- Music-Vocal/Choral (BME)
- Musical Theatre (BFA) Music Department
- Musical Theatre (BFA) Theatre and Dance Department
N
- Natural Resources (BS) Options: Forestry; General Natural Resources
- Nursing (Pre-licensure 4-year program) (BSN)
- Nursing (completion program for registered nurses) (BSN)
- Nutrition and Dietetics (BS)
P
- Philosophy (BA, BS) Minor Required
- Physical Education (BSEd)
- Physics (BS) Options: Astronomy and Astrophysics; Career Prep Physics; Materials Physics; Teaching Prep Physics
- Political Science (BA, BS) Minor Required
- Professional Writing (BA, BS) Minor Required
- Psychology (BA, BS) Minor Required
- Public Relations (BS) Minor Required
R
- Radiography (BS) Options: Education; Management; Science
- Recreation, Sport and Park Administration (BS) Minor Required
- Recreation, Sport and Park Administration (BS)
- Religious Studies (BA, BS) Minor Required
- Respiratory Therapy (BS) Options: Education; Management; Science
- Risk Management and Insurance (BS) Options: Enterprise Risk Management; Insurance
S
- Screenwriting and Film Studies (BA, BS) Minor Required
- Social Work (BSW)
- Sociology (BA, BS) Minor Required
- Special Education/Cross Categorical (BSEd)
- Speech and Theatre Education (BSEd) Communication, Media, Journalism and Film Department
- Speech and Theatre Education (BSEd) Theatre and Dance Department
- Sports Medicine (BS)
- Supply Chain, Logistics and Operations Management (BS)
T
- Theatre (BA, BS) Minor Required
- Theatre and Dance (BFA) Options: Acting; Dance; Design/Technology/Stage Management
V
- Visual Art and Culture (BA) Minor Required. Options: Art History and Visual Culture; Museum Studies; Studio Art
W
- Wildlife Conservation and Management (BS) Environmental Plant Science and Natural Resources Department
- Wildlife Conservation and Management (BS) Biology Department
Minors
Degree codes are in parenthesis. Minor degree code must match the major degree code. Example: student pursuing a Bachelor of Arts (BA) major that requires a minor must select from those minors designated as BA. See degree abbreviations below.
A
- Accounting (BA, BAS, BS)
- Advertising and Promotion (BA, BFA, BS)
- African and African American Studies (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- Agricultural Business (BS)
- Agricultural Communications (BA, BAS, BS)
- Agriculture (BSEd)
- Agronomy (BS)
- Animal Science (BA, BAS, BS, BSEd)
- Anthropology (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- Archaeology (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- Art (BA, BS)
- Art History (BA, BFA, BS, BSEd)
- Asian Studies (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- Astronomy (BA, BS)
B
- Biology (BA, BS, BSEd)
- Business Analytics (BA, BS)
- Business Application Development (BA, BS)
C
- Chemistry (BA, BS)
- Child and Family Development (BA, BS, BSW)
- Chinese (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- Classics-Classical Humanities Concentration (BA, BS)
- Classics-Concentration in Ancient Greek (BA)
- Classics-Latin Concentration (BA, BAS, BFA, BMus, BS, BSN, BSW)
- Coaching (BA, BS, BSEd)
- Communication (BA, BS)
- Community and Regional Planning (BS)
- Companion Animal Science (BA, BAS, BS, BSEd)
- Computer Science (BA, BS)
- Construction Management (BA, BAS, BS)
- Creative Writing (BA, BFA, BS)
- Criminology (BA, BS, BSEd, BSW)
- Cybersecurity (BA, BS)
D
- Dance (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- Design (BS)
- Disability Studies (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- Diversity Studies (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
E
- Economics (BA, BS, BSEd)
- English (BA, BFA, BMus, BS, BSEd)
- English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) (BA, BS)
- Enterprise Risk Management (BA, BS)
- Environmental Physics Technology (BS)
- Equine Studies (BA, BAS, BS, BSEd)
- Ethical Leadership (BA, BS, BSEd)
- Ethics and Social Policy (BA, BFA, BS, BSEd, BSW)
- Exercise Biology (BS)
F
- Film Studies (BA, BS)
- Finance (BA, BS)
- Folklore (BA, BFA, BS, BSEd)
- Forestry (BA, BAS, BS)
- Foundations of Interdisciplinary Science (BS)
- French (BA, BAS, BFA, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
G
- Gender Studies (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- General Agriculture (BS)
- General Business (BA, BS)
- General Family and Consumer Sciences (BA, BS, BSEd)
- Geography (BA, BS, BSEd)
- Geology (BA, BS)
- Geospatial Sciences (BS)
- German (BA, BAS, BFA, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- Gerontology (BA, BAS, BFA, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- Global Entrepreneurship and Management (BA, BS)
- Global Studies (BA, BS)
H
- Health Care Management (BA, BS, BSN)
- History (BA, BS, BSEd, BSW)
- Horticulture (BS)
- Human Life Sciences (BA, BS, BSN)
- Human Resource Management (BA, BS)
- Human Services (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN)
I
- Industrial Management (BA, BAS, BS)
- Informatics (BS)
- Information Technology (BA, BS)
- Insurance (BA, BS)
- Interior Design (BA, BS)
- International Relations (BA, BS)
- IT Infrastructure (BA, BS)
J
- Japanese (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- Journalism (BA, BS)
L
- Latin American, Caribbean and Hispanic Studies (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- Law and Society, The (BA, BS)
- Legal Studies in Business (BA, BS)
- Linguistics (BA, BS, BSEd)
- Literacy (BSEd)
M
- Management and Leadership (BA, BS)
- Marketing (BA, BFA, BS)
- Mass Media (BA, BS)
- Mathematics (BA, BS, BSEd)
- Middle Eastern Studies (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- Military Science (BA, BAS, BFA, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- Molecular Biology (BS)
- Museum Studies (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- Music (BA, BS)
- Music Composition (BA, BMus, BS)
N
- Native American Studies (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- Nonprofit Leadership (BA, BS, BSW)
- Nutrition (BA, BS, BSN)
O
- Ozarks Studies (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
P
- Personalized Minor (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- Philosophy (BA, BFA, BS, BSEd, BSW)
- Photography (BA, BS)
- Physics (BS)
- Political Science (BA, BS, BSEd, BSW)
- Psychology (BA, BAS, BFA, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- Public Administration (BA, BS, BSEd, BSW)
- Public Law (BA, BS, BSW)
R
- Ranch Management (BA, BAS, BS, BSEd)
- Recreation, Sport, and Park Administration (BA, BS)
- Religious Studies (BA, BFA, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
S
- Screenwriting (BA, BFA, BS)
- Sign Language Studies (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- Sociology (BA, BS, BSEd, BSW)
- Spanish (BA, BAS, BFA, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- Special Education (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- Sports Medicine (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- Sustainability (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
- Sustainable Tourism Development (BA, BS)
T
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Language (BSEd)
- Technical Writing (BA, BFA, BS)
- Theatre (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMus, BS, BSEd, BSN, BSW)
W
- Web Application Development (BA, BS)
- Writing (BSEd)
Certificates
The University certificate programs are designed for those who wish to complete a recognized concentration of study in an area. Each certificate program is a focused combination of courses designed to significantly increase competency in the stated discipline area. Completion of the certificate will be reflected on the student's transcript. All candidates must satisfy the University Certificate Policies and Requirements.
A
- Acting on Camera
- Advanced Hospitality Leadership
- Advocacy Writing
- Agricultural Economics
- Ancient Worlds
- Applied Geophysics
- Applied Geospatial Science
- Archaeology
- Argumentation and Public Policy
- Arts and Literatures of the Francophone World, The
B
C
- Children's and Young Adult Literature
- Classical Languages
- Community Health
- Companion Animal Management
- Computational Science
- Conflict and Dispute Resolution
- Conservation Law Enforcement
- Criminal Courts
- Criminal Investigation
- Cultural Anthropology
- Cultural Competence in International Nutrition
D
E
- Editing and Publishing
- Engineering Geology
- Environmental Education
- Environmental Geoscience
- Environmental STEM for Teachers
- Esports Studies
- Essentials of Hospitality Management
- Event Planning
F
- Family and Juvenile Support Services
- Fashion Merchandising
- Financial Awareness
- Food and Beverage Operations
- Forensic Child Psychology
- Foundations of Interprofessional Education in Health Care
- Foundations of Nutrition
- Foundations of Pharmaceutical Science
- French for Communication
- French for the Professions
- French Translation
G
- General Economics
- Geoarchaeology
- Geographic Information Sciences
- Geologic Foundations
- Gerontology
- Globalization and Sustainability
- Graphic Narrative
H
I
- Infant and Toddler Development
- Information Technology
- Insurance
- Intercultural Communication
- Interfaith Engagement
- International Agricultural Leadership
- International Perspectives in K-12 Special Education
- International Plant Science
J
L
M
N
O
P
R
S
- Science Writing
- Small Town Planning and Development
- Social Justice and Activism
- Social Science Research
- Soil Science
- Spanish for the Health and Human Services
- Spanish for the Professions
- Sport Administration
- Sports Medicine
- Sports Nutrition
- Strategic Communication and Digital Literacy
- Sustainable Food Production
- Sustainable Tourism
T
V
W
Degrees
- BA — Bachelor of Arts
- BAS — Bachelor of Applied Science
- BFA — Bachelor of Fine Arts
- BGS — Bachelor of General Studies
- BME — Bachelor of Music Education
- BMus — Bachelor of Music
- BS — Bachelor of Science
- BSEd — Bachelor of Science in Education
- BSN — Bachelor of Science in Nursing
- BSW — Bachelor of Social Work