Anna Maria College

Addiction Studies

The Addiction Studies Program offers a contemporary and comprehensive study of addiction through the primary lens of Psychology. Students will explore both theoretical and evidence-based concepts, practices, and policies of Addiction and Recovery.

Advanced Graduate Study in Business

Advanced Graduate Study in Criminal Justice

Advanced Graduate Study in Education

AI (Artificial Intelligence) for Business

The major in AI (Artificial Intelligence) for business is a four-year learning experience leading to a Bachelor of Science in AI for Business. The AI for Business program emphasizes practical applications of AI for business and is designed to offer hands-on, project-based learning opportunities.

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Business Administration

The Master of Business Administration (MBA) Program is designed to prepare individuals for professional careers in management and to provide educational enrichment for experienced professionals seeking a broader management perspective. The MBA Program is an accelerated program offered in a variety of formats.

Business Administration

The major in business administration is a four-year learning experience leading to a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA). All students take eleven core business courses designed to give them a solid foundation in business concepts and practices, as well as critical thinking skills and ethical reasoning for making business decisions.

Business Data Analytics

The major in Business Analytics is a four-year learning experience leading to a Bachelor of Science in Business Data Analytics. This major is designed to prepare students with the information and skills needed to excel in the rapidly expanding field of data analytics and to enter the data analytics field upon graduation.

Catholic Studies

Catholic Studies

The Catholic Studies degree provides a setting where students and faculty can explore the faith heritage of the Catholic Church found in ecclesial, liturgical, theological, philosophical, cultural, historical, and educational expressions. The Catholic Studies Major prepares students for graduate study or a profession or calling in a pastorally related field.

Communications

The discipline of communications is an examination of the various processes of human communications and their application to human behavior. The major in Communications Studies requires all students to take a comprehensive introductory course designed to give students a general survey of the discipline by integrating social and cultural diversity.

Counseling Psychology

This program offers a diverse array of courses intended to prepare the student to function in a variety of mental health settings. It is a two-tiered program that allows students to graduate with either a 12 course (36 credits) Master's Degree or a 20 course (60 credit) Master's Degree that completes the educational requirements for licensure.

Criminal Justice

The Master of Science in Criminal Justice program is an accelerated online program designed to prepare students for professions in criminal justice while enhancing the academic and professional knowledge of those who are already employed in the field.

Criminal Justice

The criminal justice major provides students with an interdisciplinary perspective on criminal justice that balances both theoretical knowledge and practical application. It prepares them for the criminal justice/human service professions and provides a solid foundation for graduate or professional studies.

Criminal Justice Leadership and Administration

Cybersecurity

The major in Cybersecurity is a four-year learning experience leading to a Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity (BSCS). This major is designed to prepare students for the evolving and dynamic field of cybersecurity, to safeguard organizations on the Internet, and to enter the cybersecurity field upon graduation.

Digital Marketing

This major is an interdisciplinary program - business, marketing, social media, video, graphic design, web design, mobile apps. The digital marketing major provides the theoretical foundations as well as the creative, analytical skills needed to persuade and communicate in the digital world.

Domestic and International Terrorism

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Emergency Management

The field of emergency management is expanding. Students participating in the emergency management program will be prepared to build community resilience and sustainability and engage in planning and response that overcomes challenges.

Emergency Services Leadership

The ESL degree is designed for the working emergency responders, currently certified or licensed paramedics, EMTs, Fire and Police with a convenient pathway to degree completion. This program focuses on evidence-based leadership and management skills for point of service care delivery within the emerging field of pre-hospital healthcare.

English

The program in English prepares students for a wide range of careers and graduate study, focusing on the study of literature in English and the development of critical reading and writing skills. The English major is designed to give students a solid foundation in the roots of literature in English.

Fire Science

The Fire Science program at Anna Maria College is designed for students who are interested in pursuing careers within fields related to fire prevention, fire protection, and fire-based emergency medical leadership. This program integrates liberal arts education and strong career preparation.

Forensic Criminology

Forensic Criminology

The major in Forensic Criminology will provide students with a specialized examination of the criminal justice system from both sociological and scientific perspectives. Through a focus on evidence and process, students are challenged to assess systemic and societal responses to various criminal populations and case studies.

Forensic Science

The Forensic Science program offers a broad foundation in science and mathematics which prepares students to work in a variety of forensic roles. Forensic Science students gain the scientific knowledge and experience required to perform all aspects of criminalistics.

Health Administration

This major has an interdisciplinary focus on business and health informatics, the analysis of health systems information and metrics. The health administration degree is an applied business degree that makes students employable in health care organizations but has a broader scope, looking at pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and medical device companies.

Health Emergency Management

The Master of Science in Health Emergency Management program offers a hybrid cohort model curriculum. The hybrid curriculum prepares the graduate to take a leadership role reflective of their specialty through rigorous course work and hands-on simulation lab exercises.

Health Science

Students who major in health science combine broad science literacy, including emphasis on biology and chemistry, with knowledge of particular threats to human health from environmental, occupational, and life-style factors.

History

The study of history provides students not only with a basis of knowledge about the past, it also builds in students a range of skills in research, critical thinking and writing. As part of a broad based liberal arts curriculum, it prepares students for a range of careers in teaching, business, politics, museums or archives.

Human Services

The Bachelor of Arts in Human Services provides students with a broad and interdisciplinary education focused on preparing individuals for careers in a wide variety of professional settings, including fields such as education, human services, and social services.

Industrial Organizational Psychology

Industrial Organizational Psychology

The Master of Science in Industrial/Organizational Psychology (I/O Psychology) blends coursework from the fields of counseling psychology and business. The degree offers practical and research-based learning that prepares students to apply the principles of psychology to organizational and leadership challenges.

Integrated Media Arts

The Master of Arts in Integrated Media Arts provides an opportunity for advanced work in visual media arts. The program is mentorship based, emphasizing a close learning and working relationship between faculty and students. Its interdisciplinary approach combines image, object, and communication, integrating traditional and emerging practices grounded in new media.

Law, Justice, and Society

The Law, Justice, and Society (LJS) Program offers an interdisciplinary study of law that incorporates several disciplines in the social sciences, including criminal justice, history, philosophy, political science, psychology and sociology.

Liberal Studies

Anna Maria College offers a major in Liberal Studies that enables students to develop an appreciation for and an ability to work with multiple perspectives and methodologies. It accommodates students who seek to develop a broad appreciation of liberal studies across disciplines without the specific structure imposed by other majors.

Nursing (RN to BSN Completion)

The RN to BSN program is an asynchronous, online program offered in an accelerated 8-week term format, for individuals who have completed an Associate of Science in Nursing or a nationally accredited nursing diploma program and are seeking to further their nursing education.

Nursing (Traditional BSN)

The undergraduate Bachelor of Science in nursing program is a traditional four-year program with eight academic semesters. The full-time program of study incorporates the exploration courses of Anna Maria College with nursing curriculum, totaling 121 credits.

Paramedic

The Paramedic Certificate-Only Option allows students to take the necessary coursework alongside the Baccalaureate program students in order to meet the sustained growing demand for Nationally-Registered Paramedics (NRP).

Paramedic Science

Pastoral Ministry

The graduate degree in pastoral ministry and its concentrations in religious education or youth ministry is designed to prepare men and women for service to the Catholic Church and its parish and school communities, providing the theological and spiritual backgrounds foundational to pastoral ministry.

Psychology

The psychology program has as its primary goal the preparation of students for graduate programs and work in the human services field. The curriculum includes introductions to the basic concepts utilized in psychology, the evolution of the field, theories of normal and abnormal psychological development, experimental psychology, and an internship in a community setting.

Public Administration

Social Work

The Master of Social Work program intends to build on the rich history of Anna Maria College to prepare advanced level social work practitioners who have the knowledge and clinical skills for working with individuals, families, groups, communities and organizations based on a firm generalist practice foundation.

Social Work

The Council on Social Work Education has accredited Anna Maria College's Bachelor of Social Work program. The program prepares bachelor's-level students for generalist practice by utilizing a holistic approach that adopts a person-in-environment framework, considering the individual, family, groups, community, organizations, and larger social systems.

Sport Management

This major is a four-year learning experience leading to a Bachelor of Science in Sport Management. As a student of sport management you will explore the business side of sport - marketing, law, economics, finance, event management, sales, fundraising and more. The program is designed to prepare students to enter the sports industry upon graduation.

Theology

Theology

Theology invites students to grapple with some of the fundamental questions of humanity, and to learn to draw upon the sources of a particular faith tradition, namely, Catholic Christianity. The study of theology builds on thousands of years of discourse and reflection, and on the foundational elements of both faith and reason.

Victim Studies