Geneva College

Accounting

The accounting major prepares students for careers in managerial, governmental, or certified public accounting positions. Both public (150 total credit hours) and private (120 credit hours) tracks offer students instruction from CPA faculty and potential for internships. The public track is designed to meet the requirements of the State Board of Accountancy to sit for the CPA examination.

Actuarial Mathematics

The major in Actuarial Mathematics prepares students to begin taking the preliminary actuarial examinations and obtain actuarial positions in companies throughout the United States and the world. In addition, this program provides the necessary background to pursue advanced degrees in mathematical finance.

Applied Mathematics

The department offers training in the tools of mathematics for students in science and engineering, as well as studies of the properties of mathematics for those who will pursue teaching or graduate school. Students must complete an applied mathematics focus area.

Aviation Business Administration

In cooperation with the Community College of Beaver County, Geneva College has developed a dual degree program by which a student may earn the Associate in Applied Science degree (AAS) in Aerospace Management, Air Traffic Control, or Professional Pilot from the community college and the Bachelor of Science in Aviation Business Administration degree (BS) from Geneva.

Biblical Studies

Biblical studies are designed to develop the basis for Christian perspectives in the study of the liberal arts, to encourage the formulation of a scripturally informed conception of life and of the world, to equip for ministry, and to provide a foundation for advanced study and professional specialization.

Biochemistry

Approved by the ACS-CPT. The Biochemistry major is an excellent preparation for graduate or medical school, combining 37 credit hours of chemistry requirements with supporting coursework in biology, mathematics, and physics.

Biology

The Biology Department's program is intended to give each student an understanding of the living world as God's creation, provide an appreciation for the use and limitations of the scientific method of inquiry, and prepare the student majoring in biology for a life of service. Some areas in which the biologist serves are healthcare, education, and research.

Biology with Secondary Education

Prepares students majoring in biology for Pennsylvania secondary teaching certification, combining the biology content major with the professional education requirements of the Education Department.

Biopsychology

This area of study explores the relationship between physiological and psychological systems. A major objective for this discipline is to provide a deeper understanding of how the physiology of the body functions in behavior, and also how defects in such function affect behavior.

Business

Geneva's business major requires a 54-credit hour core that provides the broad foundation necessary to comprehend the variety of functions and activities in business. The business major builds upon the core with the choice of a 12-credit hour concentration of upper division courses in a specialized area.

Business Administration

The mission of the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program is to prepare men and women for leadership by providing learning experiences which consider business principles within our faith context. Courses are offered in five 9-week terms each calendar year on weekday evenings, allowing working adults to complete the 36-hour program in approximately two and one-half years. The program is nationally accredited by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs.

Business Administration

What is the relationships between profit and service? How do you meet the needs of clients and the marketplace while maintaining integrity and a commitment to Christ? Geneva’s Business Administration program prepares students for excellence in starting and managing businesses and for integrity in the world of work.

Business Administration (Associate of Arts)

Offered through the Center for Urban Biblical Ministry (CUBM), which offers biblically based education to urban church leaders and active laypersons. Classes are offered in the evening and students can take from one to three classes per semester.

Business Administration (Associate of Science)

The Business, Accounting, and Sport Management Department offers an Associate of Science in Business Administration. All these courses may be applied toward a bachelor's degree if desired.

Chemistry

The Chemistry program has been approved by the American Chemical Society's Committee on Professional Training (ACS-CPT) continuously since 1958. Within the Chemistry major, there are options for a professional curriculum track, or a more basic track that allows room for more electives.

Chemistry with Secondary Education

Combines the chemistry content major with all required courses and requirements for Pennsylvania secondary education certification. A passing grade on a chemistry comprehensive exam is required.

Child and Family Services

The B.P.S. in Child and Family Services (CFS) prepares students for the issues faced by human services professionals working with families and children. Students examine current social systems and policies that impact families, as well as various forms of family dysfunction, and develop an understanding of child growth and development.

Christian Ministry

Offered through the Center for Urban Biblical Ministry (CUBM), which provides biblically based education to urban church leaders and active laypersons who have had little or no previous college experience. The program combines 33 credit hours of core requirements with 24 credit hours of major requirements in Bible, ministry, and philosophy.

Communication Design

The communication design program situates design thinking soundly within a well-established communication curriculum. Students study human communication alongside art practices including illustration, graphics, sculpture, speech, and events.

Communication Disorders

The Communication Disorders program is committed to studying typical and disordered human communication from a biblical perspective. It is the goal to prepare well-qualified students for entrance into graduate programs and later into the field of communication disorders.

Communication Media & Rhetoric

The Communication Media & Rhetoric major specifically addresses contemporary concerns and trends in human communication from a historical perspective. This includes the study of communication theory and foundational methods of inquiry and interpretation, and coursework includes practical training in audio, video, print, and digital media production.

Community Development

The Community Development major is designed to give students a foundation in social theory that is demonstrated in everyday social life. While the program is theory based, students are regularly in the community seeing the implications of theory in neighborhood design, marginalized groups, and the functioning of institutions.

Community Leadership

The B.P.S. in Community Leadership equips graduates with knowledge and skills they can then invest in their families, churches, and communities, as well as improve their prospects for employment and income. The curriculum has a Bible and ministry focus, yet emphasizes the engagement of concrete application of theories and concepts that can be modeled through experiential learning.

Computer Information Systems

The curriculum is a blend of business and computer science courses designed to prepare students for the challenges of today's ever-changing Information System needs. Students learn to speak the language of business and technology and to translate them into results.

Computer Science

The program provides a foundational survey of Computer Science topics through a set of courses required by all majors, and then gives depth in a particular area of application tailored to each student's interests and career goals through a choice of minors.

Counseling

The mission of the Master of Arts (MA) in Counseling Programs is to educate, supervise, and mentor students to develop the knowledge, skills, and personal awareness necessary for them to function as professional counselors. The program promotes excellence in professional preparation by providing a comprehensive education that integrates an understanding of Christian faith with professional counseling standards.

Criminal Justice

The interdisciplinary major in Criminal Justice is intended to help students develop the knowledge and background necessary to understand the origins of criminal behavior, the consequences of crime for society, and how societies seek to respond to crime. During the senior year, students will complete a semester-long field experience.

Curriculum & Instruction

The program in Curriculum & Instruction (MEd) is designed for individuals who intend to teach elementary, middle, or high school-level pupils. The residential program on the Beaver Falls campus provides students with a full-time immersion experience in Western pedagogy and may be completed over two or three full-time semesters.

Cybersecurity

Students entering this field will have the opportunity to experience techniques, practices, and procedures that will aid in securing the systems, databases, websites, and other organizational assets that are increasingly targeted by malicious actors. Students will learn both offensive and defensive procedures for attacking and defending networks and will be prepared to assist organizations in discovering and correcting system vulnerabilities and in recovering from man-made and natural disasters.

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity coursework combines the computer science core with courses in networks and security, intrusion detection and prevention, governance, risk and compliance, disaster recovery and business continuity planning, computer forensics, and faithful hacking.

Early Childhood Education (PK-4)

The Education Department offers the Bachelor of Science in Education with a major in PK-4 Early Childhood. The Bachelor of Science in Education is designed to prepare students for professional teaching careers at various levels, with practical experiences culminating in the senior year with two semesters of field-based training.

Engineering

The college offers one four-year degree program in engineering. This general engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET under the general criteria for basic level programs. Within this program, students may choose to concentrate in biomedical, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, environmental, mechanical engineering, or an interdisciplinary field.

Engineering

The college offers a two-year program leading to the Associate of Science in Engineering degree (ASE). All the courses in this program carry full college credit and may be used towards the four-year degree.

English

Students may earn the BA in English by completing both a common core curriculum and a specialized concentration. A major in English is excellent preparation for professions such as law, teaching, business, and other ministry-related vocations, including those requiring graduate work.

English with Secondary Education

In addition to the required 24 credits in the English Major Core Curriculum, a student majoring in English Education must complete 24 credit hours in English Education major courses and 35 credit hours of pre-professional courses from the Education department, qualifying the student for certification to teach English on the secondary level.

Environmental Science

The environmental science major is an interdisciplinary curriculum that focuses on the functioning of the natural world, environmental problems and solutions, and management of natural resources. Students gain a strong foundation in the natural sciences along with an understanding of ethics and public policy as they relate to environmental decision-making.

Finance

The finance major combines the business core with a 21-credit hour finance core covering taxation, investments, personal finance, financial statement analysis, risk management, intermediate finance, and money, credit and banking.

Game Development

Building on the foundations of the Computer Science program, the Game Development Major provides students with the skills they need to successfully work in the games industry as a programmer, designer, or producer. The major deliberately focuses on providing students with a broad base of experience.

General Studies

The Associate Degree in General Studies provides graduates with a foundation of professional skills and knowledge on which to build a career. Students will be advised by a professor who serves undeclared students or a professor in a field in which they would like to pursue a bachelor's degree or work after graduation.

Higher Education

The mission of the Master of Arts in Higher Education (MAHE) program is to cultivate a vision for higher education that is rooted in a Christian view of life, characterized by a consideration of foundational issues, and committed to the preparation of perceptive and principled leaders for colleges and universities. The program can be pursued through a cohort model, institutes model, or self-directed studies model.

Higher Education & Student Development

The purpose of the Certificate in Higher Education and Student Development at Geneva College is to cultivate a vision for higher education that is rooted in a Christian view of life in a graduate program that examines the contexts of its theological, philosophical, historical, and sociological foundations. Course work helps aspiring higher education professionals and student affairs educators develop and sustain faithful professional practice.

History

The history major seeks to help students understand and evaluate the past through the collection, organization, and interpretation of evidence, taking into consideration the dynamics of historical events, cause-and-effect relationships, and the interpretation of historical periods and civilizations.

Human Resources

Curriculum in the Human Resources (HRS) major is focused on the challenges faced in management, supervision, and organizational behavior. Topics include human resources administration, group dynamics, styles of leadership, business and research writing, problems of supervision, decision-making, organizational behavior, problem solving, effective interpersonal relationships, faith and worldview analysis, and ethics.

Human Services

Offered through the Center for Urban Biblical Ministry (CUBM). The program combines 33 credit hours of core requirements with 24 credit hours of major requirements in helping skills, child abuse and family violence, addiction, case management, crisis intervention, and psychology.

International Business

The International Business major (and minor) exist to provide students with the intercultural skills and knowledge necessary to engage the world as professionals in this current global environment of which they are a part.

Leadership

Offered through the Center for Urban Biblical Ministry (CUBM). The program combines 33 credit hours of core requirements with 24 credit hours of major requirements in leadership communication, urban leadership history, leadership ethics, nonprofit organizations, and urban theology.

Management (B.P.S.)

The B.P.S. in Management (MGT) is a distinctive bachelor's completion program in business designed for adult students. With a fully online format, students develop functional business skills and knowledge through practical curriculum grounded in best business practice.

Management (BS)

Management consists of the interconnecting functions of creating organizational policy and organizing, planning, controlling, and directing an organization's resources in order to achieve the objectives of that policy. The BS in Management program offers a comprehensive overview of the field that will develop in students a multifaceted managerial skillset and prepare them to operate more effectively as managers in organizations as well as within cross-functional teams.

Marketing

The marketing degree exposes students to all of the core aspects of integrated marketing communications. The BS in Marketing program offers a comprehensive overview of the field that will allow students to engage in the many exciting areas in marketing, from the creative side of marketing to the more technical and/or skilled side of marketing.

Mathematics with Secondary Education

Combines the mathematics content major with the required courses and requirements for Pennsylvania secondary education certification.

Medical Technology

A three-year sequence at Geneva totaling at least 94 semester credit hours can be combined with a year of training in an approved school of medical technology to earn a Bachelor of Science degree from Geneva. The year of training at an approved school of medical technology is accepted as equivalent to the senior year in fulfilling Geneva's degree requirements.

Middle Level Education (4-8)

Middle Level Education 4-8 is offered with concentrations in English Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies. The program combines Geneva core requirements with education coursework and student teaching leading to Pennsylvania certification.

Missions

This track helps to equip a student for cross-cultural ministry, ordinarily for service under the supervision of a mission agency.

Missions/Aviation

In cooperation with the Community College of Beaver County, Geneva College has developed a dual degree program by which a student may earn the Associate in Applied Science degree (AAS) in Professional Pilot from the community college and the Bachelor of Arts in Missions degree from Geneva College. The program enhances the graduate's career potential by blending specific vocational training in aviation with the broader education experience involved in earning a baccalaureate degree.

Music

A liberal arts major for students with wide interests and a desire for flexibility. With the addition of further options, it is suitable as preparation for graduate study. Students complete an approved minor or a second major.

Music Business

Preparation for work in the music industry, including management, studio work, retail, etc. The major combines music theory, history, ensembles, and applied lessons with business, accounting, economics, public relations, and music business courses. Total credit hours 119.

Music Education

Preparation to teach vocal and instrumental music in elementary and secondary schools. The program requires the presentation of a senior recital and passing piano proficiency at level II. Total credit hours: 133-136.

Music Performance

Music Performance BA is offered as an independent major for students majoring in music, developing competence in the individual and group performance of music.

Nursing

The Nursing Department, in cooperation with the Community College of Beaver County (CCBC), offers a BSN. This program will enable students to earn the Associate in Nursing Degree (ADN) from CCBC along with the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from Geneva, and enables students to sit for the national licensure exam (NCLEX-RN).

Organizational Leadership

The B.P.S. in Organizational Leadership (LDP) equips students to ascend to administrative and leadership positions in their organizations. Building upon the adult student's existing work experience, this major provides concepts and tools that help students mobilize and motivate employees, understand complex organizational challenges, and provide an ethical decision-making framework.

Philosophy

The Philosophy Program offers courses in Philosophical Orientation, Philosophical Tradition, and Christian Philosophical Formation. The program maintains a commitment to a caliber of undergraduate training that is required for successful admittance into graduate programs in philosophy.

Physics

The major provides a basis for entering industrial laboratories as a professional physicist or in a field related to physics, for working toward an advanced degree, or for obtaining certification to teach.

Physics with Secondary Education

Combines the physics content major with the general and professional education courses and requirements needed for Pennsylvania secondary teaching certification.

Political Science

The political science major seeks to help students understand and assess the discipline of political science, theories of politics, political systems and governmental structures, and the tools used in social science research, equipping them for service in fields including government, law, politics, teaching, policy analysis, and private sector management.

Pre-Seminary

This track leads to seminary studies and is intended for the student aiming towards ordination to the Christian ministry.

Psychology

The Bachelor of Science in psychology incorporates the broad study of psychology and methods of inquiry within the context of a Christian worldview. Students develop a general knowledge base that includes human development, social psychology, statistics, research methods, abnormal psychology, personality, biological bases, and learning and social cognition psychology.

Public Health

Public Health is a rapidly growing field that focuses on preventing disease and improving human health. It covers a wide range of political, sociological, scientific, and mathematical approaches to policy choices. A major in this field will prepare students to work in careers such as Community Health Specialist, Data Analyst, Public Health Education, and Quality Improvement Coordinator.

School Counseling

Geneva College's Master of Education with School Counseling Certificate offers academic training for current educators to pursue school counseling certification in the state of Pennsylvania. It is offered in both online and on campus delivery methods and is designed for educators planning to remain in schools as well as non-educators seeking a school counseling certificate only. The accelerated, non-CACREP program can be completed in as few as 21 months and requires a 410-hour internship.

Social Services

The social services field uses an interdisciplinary knowledge base, which includes psychology, sociology, anthropology to remediate and to assist individuals, families, groups, and communities to function as effectively as possible. During the senior year, students complete semester-long internships in public, private, church, and government social services agencies.

Social Studies Education

Combines 41 credit hours of education courses with 25 credit hours of social studies courses and a second major of History or Political Science, leading to Pennsylvania certification to teach social studies.

Sociology

The sociology major is designed to give students a foundation in social theory that is demonstrated in everyday social life. While the program is theory based, students are regularly in the community seeing the implications of theory in neighborhood design, marginalized groups, and the functioning of institutions.

Special Education (PK-12)

The Education Department offers the Bachelor of Science in Education with a major in PK-12 Special Education. Programs lead to certification in Pennsylvania through the Pennsylvania Department of Education, and through inter-state certification agreements, certification is readily achieved in many other states.

Sport Management/Business

The Sport Management major prepares students for positions in the athletic world including athletic administration, sport/recreational facility management, coaching, and event management. As a joint venture of the Department of Business and the Department of Physical Education, the goal is to prepare students to become a valuable part of the workforce in a variety of venues within the sport culture.

Student Ministry

This major prepares a student for ministry within the church, parachurch, or a variety of other organizations that work with students - children through college age. The major allows a student to concentrate on the area within their understood sense of personal calling, including church and parachurch ministry, urban ministry, children's ministry, adventure education, and campus ministry.

User Experience Design (UX Design)

The User Experience (UX Design) major will produce graduates with the opportunity to become effective Interface Designers and to demonstrate that skill through a heavy emphasis on project-based learning. The program prepares students for a job as a User Interface/User Experience Developer.

Writing

In addition to the required 24 credits in the English Major Core Curriculum, a student majoring in Writing must complete 22 credit hours in Writing courses. The writing major is designed to develop general writing skills while emphasizing creative writing.