Linfield University

Accounting

The Post-Baccalaureate Accounting certificate meets the needs of professionals seeking to augment their existing bachelor's degree with specialized knowledge in the field of accounting, and prepares students to qualify for positions in non-profit and government accounting, public accounting, and corporate accounting. Prerequisites for this program include a bachelor's degree from an institutionally accredited college (in any major).

Accounting Major

This major is available as a bachelor of arts or bachelor of science degree. Business requires that 15 credits in the major in courses numbered 341 and above be taken at Linfield.

Anthropology Major

The Anthropology major requires 40 credits in Sociology/Anthropology (SOAN), including a senior sequence of research/thesis and an internship/applied capstone seminar. Majors develop the ability to access, organize, critically analyze, and produce knowledge about humans as social and cultural beings.

Applied Physics Major

The applied physics major is for students who wish to continue in more applied fields, usually mechanical engineering, materials science, or employment in data science and technology related industry. The major requires 40-42 credits from within the department plus an additional 17 credits from outside the department.

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Major

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, as the intersection of the disciplines of Chemistry and Biology, applies the understanding of energy, atoms, molecules, and molecular interactions to the intricate processes which occur within a living cell. The degree requires a sequence of courses which provide a background for research in biomolecular sciences, for employment at the bachelors level, or for graduate training in related areas.

Biology Major

The Biology major requires 38 credits from within the department, plus an additional 16 CHEM credits. Majors develop an advanced level of competence in four areas of biology: hereditary biology, cell biology, ecology, and evolutionary biology.

Business

The Master of Science (M.S.) graduate program in the School of Business is a multi-model interdisciplinary program where business and non-business majors build expertise across key competencies for exceptional performance: innovation, human-centered design, high performing teams, critical thinking, solution finding, creativity, emotional and cultural intelligence. The M.S. offered through Linfield's School of Business is full-time, designed to be completed within twelve months.

Chemistry Major

The department's curriculum is approved by the Committee on Professional Training of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Students take courses in at least four of the sub-disciplines of chemistry, and then meet the major requirements with an elective that more closely reflects their particular interests.

Communication Arts Major

Students in communication arts learn to create and deliver articulate, reasoned, and ethical messages, and gain an understanding of the general theory and practice of communication across public, relational, intercultural, political, and mediated contexts.

Computer Science Major

The Computer Science major is designed to meet the growing demand for broadly-educated individuals with fundamental computer-related problem-solving skills, preparing students for either graduate study or immediate employment. The major builds a solid foundation in programming, software engineering, data science, networks and communications, systems administration, and computer security.

Creative Writing Major

The Creative Writing major consists of 31 credits in creative writing and 16 in literature. Students compose, revise, edit and share original work in several genres, seeking a distinct style and distinctive personal material.

Data Science Major

The Data Science program is designed to provide students with the mathematical, statistical, and computer programming tools necessary to ethically interpret an increasingly data-driven world. Students develop organizational, analytical, and visualization skills to present actionable information from data, including team-based consulting projects with real clients.

Design and Innovation

A graduate certificate in Design & Innovation requiring 12 credits selected from the School of Business graduate common core and Design and Innovation course offerings. Courses in which a student has earned a grade less than C- may not be applied toward the certificate.

Digital Art Major

The Digital Art major combines studio art, computer science, and mass communication coursework. Students demonstrate competency in one digitally-based medium and produce a coherent, cohesive body of work accompanied by an artist statement.

Economics Major

The Economics major requires 36 credits including principles, intermediate microeconomics and macroeconomics, econometrics, and a senior seminar. Students learn to display a command of existing economic knowledge, utilize economic knowledge to explain economic issues, and create new economic knowledge.

Elementary Education Major

The Elementary Education major prepares students to apply research from multiple learning theories in the development of praxis, including classroom community and culturally responsive teaching. This version of the major does not include the licensure coursework.

Elementary Education Major with Licensure

The Elementary Education Major with Licensure combines the elementary education major coursework with licensure requirements, including clinical practice and seminars, leading to an Oregon Preliminary Teaching License. Linfield's Teacher Education Program is accredited by the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission of Oregon (TSPC).

Elementary Education Major with Licensure (OCE)

Offered through Online and Continuing Education, this program is designed for those seeking an initial teaching license and/or a bachelor's degree in education, K-12 staff such as paraprofessionals or instructional assistants, career changers, and those currently in an education program at an Oregon community college. Students who currently hold a bachelor's degree in a major outside of education or an AAOT degree with pre-education coursework can complete the program in two years.

Elementary Education Teaching

This post-baccalaureate certificate provides the Linfield licensure coursework and clinical practice required for an Oregon Preliminary Teaching License at the elementary level. Clinical practice consists of 600 hours of classroom experiences taken concurrently with a seminar for clinical experience.

Environmental Studies Major

Environmental Studies is an interdisciplinary program that focuses on the relationships between humans and the natural world. Students in the major choose from one of three focus areas: environmental science, environmental policy, or environmental humanities, and all participate in a yearlong community-based capstone sequence.

Exercise Science Major

The Exercise Science major requires 48 credits from within the department plus an additional 19-20 credits from outside the department. Students demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of the human body and its response to nutritional needs, physical activity and exercise, and utilize evidence-based assessment procedures in health and fitness settings.

Finance Major

This major is available as a bachelor of arts or bachelor of science degree. Students demonstrate competency in financial analysis and appreciate ethical, legal, and global aspects of business.

French

Language Proficiency Certificates (LPCs) require 16 credits and are designed to help students increase proficiency in a language and culture and introduce them to some specialized vocabulary. Students complete a final project connecting an aspect of the French language or Francophone cultures to a career and must achieve Intermediate Mid or higher on the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines.

History Major

The History major requires 41 credits including professional development, methods of historical research, a senior seminar, and at least one course in each of four world areas. Students critically analyze and assess historical causation and change and develop excellent research skills and evidence-based reasoning.

Human Resource Management

The Human Resource Management certificate equips individuals with practical knowledge and skills pertinent to the human resource management function, including strategic human resource planning, employee and labor relations, compensation, training and organization development, and performance management. Not open to students who are pursuing or have completed management majors or management minors.

Intercultural Communication Major

The Intercultural Communication major offers students an interdisciplinary B.A. degree program that includes a core of communication arts courses. Students engage the theories and models for understanding the dynamics of human communication across a variety of cultural contexts, investigating issues of privilege, marginalization, opportunity, and social justice.

International Business Major

The interdepartmental major in International Business is designed for the student who wants to understand the field of business in its international dimensions and ramifications. The program includes both core and internationally focused courses in business and economics, course work in another field with an international subject matter, foreign language study and a study-abroad experience.

International Relations Major

International Relations (IR) majors draw from their interdisciplinary knowledge to ask and analyze questions about power, economics, nationalism, culture, ethics, and identity. They speak different languages, study abroad, and analyze complex global issues like wealth or gender inequality, forced migration, climate change, and nuclear weapons proliferation.

Journalism and Media Studies Major

The Journalism and Media Studies major prepares students to create media content that is informative, entertaining, and/or persuasive, and to analyze and evaluate the legal, ethical, organizational, and cultural contexts in which media content is produced and circulated. The major is offered in a traditional program plus Digital Storytelling & Content Creation and Public Relations & Advertising focuses.

Law, Rights, and Justice Major

The Law, Rights, and Justice major encourages students interested in law to connect legal theory with legal practice, to explore law through the lenses provided by multiple disciplines, and to think critically about the relationship between law, rights, and competing conceptions of justice.

Literature Major

The Literature major develops a clearer understanding of the ways literature at once articulates and reflects social, political, cultural and global contexts. Students gain familiarity with the methods, theories, and issues of literary criticism and complete a senior thesis.

Management Major

This major is available as a bachelor of arts or bachelor of science degree. Students apply knowledge of the management and strategy of organizations and appreciate ethical, legal, and global aspects of business.

Marketing

The Marketing certificate equips students with the knowledge and skills related to business marketing in such areas as sales, promotions management, consumer behavior, and international marketing. Not open to students who are pursuing or have completed general business or marketing majors.

Marketing Major

This major is available as a bachelor of arts or bachelor of science degree. Students understand the role of marketing, demonstrate literacy in accounting, and appreciate ethical, legal, and global aspects of business.

Mathematics Major

The Mathematics major develops a solid understanding of the core fundamentals of undergraduate mathematics along with the ability to communicate mathematical ideas with precision, clarity, and organization. Students planning on graduate study in mathematics should plan their programs with their advisors to include more than the minimum indicated.

Music Major

The Music major covers musicianship, music history and culture, and performance, culminating in a senior capstone. Only Music courses with a grade C or better will count towards the major.

Nonprofit Fiscal Management

This certificate covers social entrepreneurship and enterprises, fiscal management and accounting for nonprofit organizations, fundraising and resource development, and grant writing. This program is only offered on the accelerated calendar.

Nonprofit Management Fundamentals

This certificate covers managing nonprofit organizations, nonprofit law and governance, nonprofit marketing and social media, and nonprofit strategy and strategic planning. This program is only offered on the accelerated calendar.

Nonprofit Management Major

The major in Nonprofit Management provides students practical business and managerial knowledge specific to the nonprofit sector, grounding them in nonprofit management fundamentals, strategy, social entrepreneurship, nonprofit law and governance, fiscal management, marketing and social media, fundraising, resource development, and grant writing. This program is offered only through Online and Continuing Education (OCE) on the accelerated calendar.

Nursing

The pre-licensure Bachelor of Science in Nursing program integrates knowledge from liberal arts, sciences and nursing science as a basis for professional practice. Students must attain a nursing major GPA of 2.000 and a grade of C or better in all required nursing courses in order to graduate.

Nursing (Accelerated)

The accelerated Pre-Licensure program is designed for students who have completed a bachelor's degree and is offered over the span of 12 calendar months in accelerated 10-week semesters (Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring, and a two-week intensive). This program confers a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.S.N.) upon completion.

Nursing (Master's Entry into Professional Nursing)

The Master's Entry into Professional Nursing (MEPN) is designed for students who have completed a bachelor's degree and is offered over the span of 15 calendar months in accelerated 10-week semesters (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter). This program confers a Master of Science in Nursing (M.S.N.) upon completion.

Philosophy Major

The Philosophy major requires 40 credits including research/thesis, logic or critical reasoning, courses in the history of philosophy, and topical courses. Students develop competence in principles of correct reasoning and in understanding major motifs in both Western and non-Western philosophy.

Physics Major

The physics major trains students generally in physics; graduates often continue to graduate programs in physics, medical physics, applied math, or mechanical engineering, to teaching, to the data science industry, or to medical school. The major requires 42-43 credits from within the department plus an additional 17 credits from outside the department.

Political Science Major

The Political Science major requires 42 credits including American politics, international politics, great political thinkers, research methodology, an internship, and a year-long senior sequence. Students think critically, systematically, and creatively about political issues by employing a variety of theoretical and methodological tools.

Psychology Major

The Psychology major develops a basic understanding of major areas of psychology such as development, personality, social, cognition, biopsychology, and abnormal psychology, including knowledge of psychology as an evidence-based, scientific discipline. Students design, carry-out, and evaluate research in psychology.

Public Health: Health Promotion Major

The Public Health: Health Promotion major requires 49-54 required credits plus another 10 prerequisite credits. Students must hold current Adult CPR/AED certification by graduation, and complete a senior capstone applying public health theory in a real world setting.

R.N. to B.S.N.

The R.N. to B.S.N. program allows registered nurses to complete a bachelor of science in nursing, including credit for prior learning courses earned after successful completion of RN-BSN Transition to Professional Practice. Students must pass each course in the nursing major with a grade of C or better and achieve a nursing major GPA of 2.000 minimum.

Secondary Education Major with Licensure (for Teaching Middle or High School)

The Secondary Education major is a second major only and leads to teacher licensure in a content area endorsement area. Requirements include admission to the teacher preparation program, completion of one of a list of approved Linfield content majors, education coursework, and clinical practice.

Secondary Education Teaching

This post-baccalaureate certificate provides the Linfield licensure coursework and clinical practice required for an Oregon Preliminary Teaching License at the middle or high school level. Clinical practice consists of 600 hours of classroom experiences taken concurrently with a seminar for clinical experience.

Sociology Major

The Sociology major requires 40 credits in Sociology/Anthropology (SOAN), including social research methods, social theory, and a senior sequence of research/thesis and an internship/applied capstone seminar. Students develop the ability to see how individual lives are connected with wider social and cultural processes and forces.

Spanish

Language Proficiency Certificates (LPCs) require 16 credits and are designed to help students increase proficiency in a language and culture and introduce them to some specialized vocabulary. Students complete a final project connecting an aspect of the Spanish language or Spanish speaking communities to a career and must achieve Intermediate Mid or higher on the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines.

Spanish Language and Culture Major

The Spanish Language and Culture major develops advanced language proficiency along with knowledge of the literatures and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. The major is offered in a Study Abroad Track and a Non-Study Abroad Track.

Sport Leadership

A graduate certificate in Sport Leadership comprising Sport Leadership, Sport Sales & Marketing, Sport Law, and Sport Analytics. Courses in which a student has earned a grade less than C- may not be applied toward the certificate.

Sport Management Major

The Sport Management major is an interdisciplinary program designed to allow students the opportunity to obtain theoretical knowledge in the fields of business, economics, journalism and media studies, philosophy, and health and human performance and apply it to the study of sport management. Due to overlap in content, students cannot earn a Sport Management major and also any other major housed in the School of Business.

Sports Economics Major

The Sports Economics major requires 36 credits including a 20-credit economics core, a sports economics core, an experiential learning course, and an elective. This major is available as a bachelor of arts or bachelor of science degree.

Sports Science and Analytics

The Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Sports Science and Analytics provides students with the additional training and preparation needed for this new, sought after profession. The degree is grounded in high amounts of practical, real-world experiences, both on-campus integrated with Linfield athletic teams, and with our robust off-campus internship with high-level organization (professional and collegiate).

Studio Art Major

The Studio Art major requires 48 credits including introduction to studio, design, visual studies, drawing, modern and contemporary art history, senior seminar, professional practices, and studio electives. Students demonstrate technical skills in at least one studio medium and produce a coherent, cohesive body of work accompanied by an artist statement.

Theatre Arts Major

The Theatre Arts major provides knowledge of a broad range of theatrical disciplines and experiences, including entertainment design methods, acting, production lab, play reading and dramaturgy, theatre management and marketing, and theatre histories. Majors must maintain a minimum overall GPA of 2.500 to enroll in practicum courses and participate in production activities.

Wine Business Leadership

A graduate certificate in Wine Business Leadership comprising Strategic Wine Production, Wine Sales, Wine Marketing and Hospitality, and Wine Business and Finance. Courses in which a student has earned a grade less than C- may not be applied toward the certificate.

Wine Studies Major

The Wine Studies major requires a minimum of 59 credits covering the geography of wine, viticulture, winemaking, sensory evaluation, wine accounting and finance, wine sales and marketing, hospitality and event management, an internship, and a senior capstone. Students demonstrate an interdisciplinary understanding of the wine industry and apply their understanding to the unique aspects of the wine industry in our state and region.