Alma College

Accounting

The Accounting major combines the 52-credit business core with a 20-credit accounting concentration to prepare students for careers in accounting.

Actuarial Science

The Actuarial Science major combines mathematics, economics, business and data analytics coursework with an actuarial science internship or independent study.

Art and Design (BA)

The Department of Art and Design offers a Bachelor of Arts program in the Studio Arts, providing a broad overview of various media. The B.A. is often combined with study in Business, English or Psychology.

Art and Design (BFA)

The Bachelor of Fine Arts is a pre-professional program for students seeking employment in the field of art and design or advancing to graduate school. It provides a breadth of knowledge across art and design disciplines with a selectable concentration in Drawing and Painting or Design, and requires portfolio acceptance and a 3.0 major GPA.

Biochemistry

Biochemistry is an interdepartmental major combining biology and chemistry. It requires core courses, electives, and successful completion of a departmental Senior Comprehensive Examination.

Biology

The Biology major includes core coursework plus electives spanning evolution and genetics, ecology and biodiversity, form and function, and cell and molecular biology, culminating in the MFT examination for Biology.

Business Administration

Business majors complete a 52-credit business core along with one required 12-credit concentration such as Analytics, Environmental Responsibility, Leadership and Management, Operations and Supply Chain Management, or Sports Management.

Chemistry

The Chemistry major includes core courses and electives, with options including an American Chemical Society Certified Degree and pre-medicine preparation.

Communication

The Communication major includes core, context and capstone components, with a capstone seminar or an internship or approved applied learning experience.

Communication and Information Technology

A graduate master's program offered by Alma College in communication and information technology.

Computer Engineering

Alma's engineering programs share a common core; the Computer Engineering major builds on that core and is designed to meet ABET accreditation expectations (though it does not currently hold that designation).

Computer Game Programming

The Computer Game Programming major combines computer science and new media coursework, including game engine fundamentals and design, culminating in a capstone or thesis course.

Computer Science

The Computer Science major covers programming, algorithms and data structures, and upper-level electives, and encourages a senior thesis and undergraduate research.

Creative Writing

A graduate Master of Fine Arts program offered by Alma College in creative writing.

Dance

The Dance major combines physical practice, performance, foundations of dance research, applications of dance research, and a dance research synthesis project.

Economics

The Economics major requires introductory and intermediate coursework plus upper-level electives, and culminates in a comprehensive evaluation via the Major Field Achievement Test or a senior thesis.

Educational Studies

The Educational Studies Major is a non-certification program for students interested in education across a variety of fields who are not currently seeking teacher certification, with concentrations in Special Needs, Pedagogy, Literacy, or Science Education in Informal Settings.

Electrical Engineering

The Electrical Engineering major builds on the shared engineering core with additional coursework in circuits, electromagnetism, embedded systems and signals.

Elementary Education (PK-6)

The PK-6 Major prepares candidates to teach preschool through sixth grade and to be recommended for Michigan certification after passing the required certification tests.

Engineering Science

The Engineering Science major builds on the shared engineering core, forming an intentional concentration in an area of applied science such as environmental or biomedical engineering, approved by the department.

English

The English major combines foundational courses in literary argument and literary analysis with digital/multimodal composition, creative writing workshops, and literature electives across multiple periods and traditions.

Environmental Science

The Environmental Science major combines a 32-credit science-based core (including biology and chemistry) with science, mathematics and policy electives, and expects an internship or research experience.

Environmental Studies

The Environmental Studies major combines a 20-credit environmental core with electives drawn from political science, philosophy, communication and other disciplines, and expects students to complete an internship or research experience.

Financial Economics

The Financial Economics major combines economics core courses with business and finance coursework, including corporate finance and investments.

Foreign Service

The Foreign Service major is an interdepartmental Program of Emphasis of at least fifty-six approved credits drawn from economics, history and political science.

History

The History major requires coursework distributed across historical fields with a majority at the upper level.

Integrative Physiology and Health Science

The Integrative Physiology and Health Science major requires a core plus one concentration (Clinical Exercise Physiology, Pre-Therapy, Pre-Medicine, or Public Health) and completion of the HAPS comprehensive examination.

Marketing

The Marketing major combines a 56-credit business core with marketing-focused electives such as professional selling, design and project management.

Mathematical Sciences

The Mathematical Sciences major combines mathematics and computer science coursework, emphasizing courses that connect applications and theory.

Mathematics

The Mathematics major requires core mathematics courses, upper-level electives, and cognate credits in computer science.

Music

The Bachelor of Arts with a major in Music offers a 40-credit program, with an option to add a selected concentration in Music Composition, Music Technology, Music Performance, or Music Business and Management.

Music Education

The Bachelor of Music in Music Education prepares students for K-12 music teaching certification.

Neuroscience

Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary major requiring core content across psychology, biology and chemistry, research experience, and upper-level electives.

New Media

The New Media major develops skills in digital media production, including documentary, mixing and mastering, and studio work, culminating in a capstone senior studio.

Nursing

The Bachelor of Science in Nursing includes a professional nursing sequence, integrative science core, and required cognates, with admission to the Nursing Program limited to 32 students per cohort.

Philosophy

The Philosophy major requires upper-level philosophy credits, a senior seminar, and completion of a senior oral examination administered by the department.

Physics

The Physics major requires core physics courses, an elective, and required cognates in mathematics.

Political Science

The Political Science major requires a senior seminar plus upper-level coursework across the subfields of the discipline.

Professional Accounting

The Professional Accounting (CPA) major provides the coursework required by the State of Michigan to sit for the CPA exam, combining the business core with a 40-credit professional accounting concentration.

Psychology

The Psychology major requires foundational and physiological psychology, statistics, upper-level coursework, and encourages independent research and an empirical thesis.

Secondary Education

The Secondary Education Major prepares candidates for secondary teaching certification and may only be completed in combination with another valid Alma College teaching major or two teaching minors.

Sociology

The Sociology major requires core courses in methods and theory plus a practicum or senior thesis and upper-level sociology electives.

Spanish

The Spanish major requires Spanish coursework, cultural analysis, English cognates, at least one semester of international study in a Spanish-speaking country, and demonstrated language proficiency.

Special Education

A graduate master's program offered by Alma College in special education.

Special Education: Learning Disabilities

The Learning Disabilities Major leads to a Michigan endorsement in learning disabilities and, for secondary education candidates, must be paired with the Secondary Education Program and a content endorsement area.

Special Education: Mild to Moderate Disabilities

The Mild to Moderate Disabilities program provides a pathway to special education teacher licensure with Michigan endorsements in Learning Disabilities, Cognitive Impairment, and Emotional Impairment.

Theatre

The Theatre major requires core theatre courses, senior capstone courses, theatre electives, and a required dance cognate.