Undergraduate Major Programs

Public Health

Health Systems Theory and Practice Emphasis

Prepare for a career as a public health leader helping corporations, organizations, governments and communities with planning, management, and administration. Courses in health economics and policy, public health law and ethics, healthcare marketing, and strategic planning are complemented by an internship that provides professional public health experience in your area of interest.

Public Health

Public Health Practice Emphasis

Study health program evaluation, health policy, law, and ethics to prepare for a career ensuring all communities have access to crucial health services and safe living conditions. Coursework is complemented by with an internship that provides professional public health experience working with underserved populations. Available to fully online public health students.

Public Health

Quantitative Methods in Public Health Emphasis

Pursue courses on the acquisition, assessment, analysis, management, and communication of health data, health research, and epidemiology to prepare for a career tracking and preventing disease and using data and analytical thinking to help others. Coursework is completed by an internship that provides professional public health experience in your area of interest.

Statistics and Data Science

Prepare for a career in analytics, risk assessment, finance, and other math- and science-related fields or graduate degrees. Courses in probability, statistics, data science, and computer programming establish a solid mathematics foundation and focus on the capture, maintenance, processing, analysis, and communication of data. Undergraduates also must complete a minor outside the Department of Mathematics.

Sustainable Built Environments

Learn solutions-based environmental design, planning, and management practices to create more sustainable built environments with your own specialized focus area. Courses span the subjects of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, real estate development, and heritage conservation, preparing you for a career in urban agriculture, sustainable development and construction, and adaptive building use and preservation.

Sustainable Built Environments

Heritage Conservation Emphasis

Learn about the importance of heritage conservation to preserve and create more sustainable built environments, the processes and protocols of conservation, and current issues in historic preservation and resource management. Graduate prepared for a careers as a manager at nonprofit organizations, leader of government agencies, and consultant in heritage conservation and historic preservation.

Sustainable Built Environments

Sustainable Buildings Emphasis

Hands-on coursework in climate-responsive and net-zero energy design, energy conservation, passive solar design, and natural ventilation systems teaches you to analyze existing and planned structures, apply solutions-based strategies to create workable plans to make buildings more efficient. Graduate with a practical understanding of sustainability and expertise in built environment policy and design.

Sustainable Built Environments

Sustainable Communities Emphasis

Explore climate action planning, transportation planning, and urban development, and build critical thinking skills and a solutions-based approach to navigate the challenge of making cities more sustainable and resilient. Graduate prepared for a career in sustainable communities or with a strong foundation for graduate studies.

Sustainable Built Environments

Sustainable Landscapes Emphasis

Identify strategies to design innovative and sustainable landscapes while studying water harvesting, passive cooling, urban heat island mitigation, climate adaptability, how landscapes can improve human health, urban ecology, natural resource management, and environmental policy. Graduate with a deeper understanding of the pivotal role of landscapes in a community and how to make them more sustainable.

Sustainable Built Environments

Sustainable Real Estate Development Emphasis

Join the new green economy with a focus in sustainable land development and real estate finance. Coursework in sustainable practices, urban design, real estate finance, site development, and construction builds practical business skills like accounting, marketing, and economics. Enjoy collaborative learning environments that build skills in innovative thought, creativity, problem-solving, and teamwork.