New Mexico Highlands University

Accounting

Accounting

Addictions Counseling

The Addictions Counseling Certificate is available to individuals with a Clinical Master's Degree (i.e. Counseling, Social Work, or Marriage and Family Therapy). The certificate fulfills the educational requirements for both entry-level New Mexico Licensed Substance Abuse Associate (LSAA) and the New Mexico Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor credentials.

Advanced Placement

Alternative Teacher Certification Program - Elementary Education

The Alternative Teacher Certification Program (ATCP) is designed for individuals who have earned a bachelor's master's, or doctoral degree and are interested in pursuing a teaching license. Candidates will be encouraged to obtain an alternative teaching license and secure a teaching position so that they are immersed from day one as a teacher of record in a classroom. All candidates will participate in an internship seminar throughout the duration of the program.

Alternative Teacher Certification Program - Secondary Education

The Alternative Teacher Certification Program (ATCP) is designed for individuals who have earned a bachelor's master's, or doctoral degree and are interested in pursuing a teaching license. Candidates will be encouraged to obtain an alternative teaching license and secure a teaching position so that they are immersed from day one as a teacher of record in a classroom. All candidates will participate in an internship seminar throughout the duration of the program.

Alternative Teacher Certification Program - Special Education

The Alternative Teacher Certification Program (ATCP) is designed for individuals who have earned a bachelor's master's, or doctoral degree and are interested in pursuing a teaching license. Candidates will be encouraged to obtain an alternative teaching license and secure a teaching position so that they are immersed from day one as a teacher of record in a classroom. All candidates will participate in an internship seminar throughout the duration of the program.

Applied Chemistry

Bilingual Education

Post baccalaureate students seeking a certificate leading to a bilingual education endorsement must complete a minimum of 12 credits hours of coursework at the graduate level. All endorsements are awarded by the New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED) and are subject to NMPED guidelines and requirements. These include completion of a bachelor's degree in education and a New Mexico teaching license.

Biology (B.A.)

Biology (B.S.)

Business Administration

Business Administration

The Master of Business Administration is a 36-credit hour program for students with a background in business. The program prepares students for leadership positions in business, state and federal government, or non-profit institutions. Building on a foundation of management, accounting, finance, economics, and marketing, the program emphasizes administrative ability, managerial potential, financial decision making, and long-range planning skills.

Business Management and Entrepreneurship

Chemistry (B.A.)

Chemistry (B.S.)

Computer Science (B.A.)

Computer Science (B.S.)

Conservation Management

Counseling

The core of the counseling program is the same for all four concentrations then, each concentration has a set of courses that prepare you to work within different settings. The program is structured around two components: core curriculum, which includes research and methodology, and concentration specific coursework. The different concentrations qualify students to apply for licensure or certification by various state and national agencies.

Criminal Justice Studies

A bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice Studies provides an excellent foundation for students interested in working within the fields of law, corrections, security, probation, and parole among others. In addition, it offers thorough preparation for those interested in pursuing a graduate degree in Sociology, Criminology/Criminal Justice, Law, Social Work, Public Administration, Public Policy, or a closely related field.

Criminology

The Criminology Core curriculum emphasizes criminological theory, criminal behavior, and other aspects of crime. The focus of this core is primarily theoretical, incorporating critical aspects of social inequality and social justice. However, there are also opportunities to explore the 3 C's of criminal justice: cops/police, courts/law, and corrections/prisons.

Cultural Resource Management

The main objective of the MA in Cultural Resource Management (CRM) is to prepare students who already work in CRM, or plan to work in CRM, for full professional CRM anthropological work in tribal, states, and federal agencies, as well as in the private sector. Accordingly, students will be trained in the new developments, techniques, and in the technical literature of anthropology and related professional fields of work.

Curriculum and Instruction

The Master of Arts in curriculum and instruction offers graduate work in a variety of academic content fields with the aim of preparing licensed educators for evolving into reflective practitioners and creative scholars. This program is structured around three components: required core, emphasis area, and research methodology.

Digital Marketing

Digital Marketing

Early Childhood Multicultural Education

The Early Childhood Multicultural Education Associate of Arts degree prepares classroom teachers and other professionals to work with young children (Birth to Age 8). Coursework in the Early Childhood Development Certificate can be applied toward the Associate of Arts Degree in Early Childhood Multicultural Education.

Early Childhood Multicultural Education

The Early Childhood Multicultural Education program is a four-year Bachelor of Arts degree. The program prepares classroom teachers and other professionals to work with young children. The program fulfills the NMPED competency requirements which include child growth, development, and learning; developmentally appropriate content; learning environments and curriculum implementation; and health, safety and nutrition assessment and professionalism.

Educational Leadership

Candidates seeking to complete the certificate program leading to licensure for the purpose of attaining education administration licensure must hold an MA or MS and a New Mexico level III teacher licensure. Candidates for the certificate program are expected to complete 18 credit hours of coursework from the educational leadership core course sequence. Additionally, candidates are required to complete six credit hours of university-supervised administrative internship (over two semesters).

Educational Leadership

This program is structured around three components: required core, emphasis area, and research methodology. Two options are available for master's degree candidates in educational leadership.

Elementary Education

Elementary Education

Elementary education is offered as an academic major field. Education students may select a major in education or a dual major in elementary and special education. The major program meets requirements for special education licensure set by the NMPED.

English

English

Environmental Geology

Family Nurse Practitioner

The MSN-FNP program focuses on rural and specialty population health. The program meets the NTF criteria as an advanced practice specialty. The 49-credit program is delivered in a two-year (full time) or three-year (part time) sequence and includes all core and FNP specialty courses. Approximately 750 practice hours in direct patient care are required.

Finance

Finance

Fine Art (B.A.)

Fine Art (B.F.A.)

The Bachelor of Fine Arts degree prepares students for a career in visual art and prepares them to advance academically. A focus on critical thinking and commitment in coursework enables students to become visually literate, technically competent, historically informed, and conceptually relevant.

Fine Arts

This curriculum provides the rigorous studio practice and conceptual/art historical framework necessary to develop a portfolio for application to graduate programs in fine arts or to prepare the candidate for a self-directed career in fine art. It is a critique-driven program that requires the student enroll in portfolio development, and exhibition courses, as well as directed study courses.

Forest and Watershed Restoration

Forestry

General Business

General Engineering

The Associate of Science in General Engineering degree provides the opportunity for students to develop a solid, general proficiency in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science by providing their beginning two-to-three years of General Engineering. Students who complete the two-to-three-year ASGE program will be prepared for transfer to an ABET-accredited four-year engineering school in order to obtain their Bachelor of Science degree in an engineering discipline.

General Science for Secondary Teachers

The purpose of the major is to provide science teachers in training with a fundamentally strong background in the basic sciences. Therefore, a greater pool of talent in the field of science education will be created from which surrounding middle schools and high schools can draw. The program has been designed to emphasize the fundamental understanding of both physical and life sciences. Courses will be selected from biology, geology, chemistry, computer science, and physics.

Geographic Information Systems

Geographic Information Systems

Health

Hemp Entrepreneurship and Production

History

Human Performance and Sport

Human Performance and Sport

This program continues the undergraduate program's emphasis on physical education, health, wellness, and sport. The program is flexible in offering a number of course options for school applications; social, legal, and ethical dimensions; advanced exercise physiology; health; and specialized topics such as sports psychology and special physical education.

Human Resources Management

Interactive Cultural Technology

Marketing

Marketing

Mathematics and Computer Science for Secondary School Teachers

Mathematics (B.A.)

The Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics comprises the same curriculum of Mathematics courses as for the Bachelor of Science degree. However, Bachelor of Arts candidates will select an academic minor in a field other than one of the sciences.

Mathematics (B.S.)

A major in Mathematics leading to a Bachelor of Science degree requires at least 47 hours consisting of 35 hours of required mathematics courses, at least six hours of mathematics electives, and six hours of computer science courses. In addition, the student is required to obtain a minor in one of the sciences, with a minor in physics being highly desirable.

Media Arts and Computer Science (M.A.)

The Department of Visual and Performing Arts and the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences jointly offer a program in Media Arts and Computer Science (MACS) that, depending on one's program of study and background, could lead to either a Master of Arts or Master of Science degree. Students can enter the program starting from either a media arts or computer science perspective and develop further skills in both areas. The key to the program is its interdisciplinary nature.

Media Arts and Computer Science (M.S.)

The Department of Visual and Performing Arts and the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences jointly offer a program in Media Arts and Computer Science (MACS) that, depending on one's program of study and background, could lead to either a Master of Arts or Master of Science degree. Students can enter the program starting from either a media arts or computer science perspective and develop further skills in both areas. The key to the program is its interdisciplinary nature.

Media Arts (B.A.)

Media Arts (B.F.A.)

Media Arts Cultural Technology

The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Media Arts Cultural Technology is a in person, 3-year terminal degree with 2 1/2 years of course work and one semester of thesis. The program positions graduates to work in the constantly evolving field at the intersection of culture and technology. The MFA faculty seek to cultivate multi-talented students capable of working in all areas of interpretive media.

Music

Music (B.A.)

Music (B.F.A.)

Natural Sciences

The mission of the master's program is to provide graduate students with a high-quality science education that includes experience with research and field projects. We offer a Thesis Track MS Program centered on an individual research project guided by a graduate faculty adviser and advisory committee and a Non-Thesis Track MS Program.

Nursing

Nursing Practice

The goal of the DNP Program is to prepare advanced practice nurses with a practice doctorate that enables them to apply scientific knowledge, leadership theories, and practice expertise to assure quality patient outcomes across diverse patient populations within health care organizations and systems. The DNP is the terminal practice degree which will prepare graduates for leadership positions in nursing and other professional organizations.

Organizational Leadership

Organizational Leadership in Public Safety

Political Science

The major in Political Science is offered with two emphases: Liberal Arts and Law. Students in Political Science may seek careers in government, NGOs (non-governmental organizations), teaching, and private industry. The Political Science major provides excellent preparation for law school and other graduate and professional degree programs, as well as pre-professional training for governmental positions involving policymaking or administration.

Professional Counseling

The Certificate Program in Professional Counseling qualifies a person to apply for Licensure through the New Mexico Counseling and Therapy Practice Board.

Psychology

Psychology (B.A.)

Psychology (B.S.)

Public Affairs

The Master of Arts in Public Affairs combines studies in Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology, and History with an interdisciplinary emphasis. The program gives a comprehensive understanding of the social and cultural environment of the public and private spheres through a core curriculum taken by all students that includes political theory, social theory, historiography, and human culture.

Public Safety

Reading

Post baccalaureate students seeking a certificate leading to reading endorsement must complete a minimum of 12 credits hours of reading courses at the graduate level. Additional credits in reading may be required depending on the student's prior coursework in reading, and prior licensure and endorsement history.

Rehabilitation Counseling

The Certificate Program in Rehabilitation Counseling qualifies a person to apply for National Rehabilitation Certification.

School Counseling

The Certificate Program in School Counseling qualifies a person to sit for the School Counseling exam through the New Mexico Public Education Department.

Secondary Education

Secondary Education Leading to Licensure

Prospective teachers holding a bachelor's degree may complete the secondary certificate program in order to obtain a secondary license in New Mexico. In addition to completing coursework listed on the framework, candidates must have 24 credits, including 12 upper divisions, in a content area taught in the public schools.

Social and Behavioral Sciences

The associate of arts degree in Social and Behavioral Sciences includes courses in general education and in Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Psychology, Sociology or Women's Studies, constituting a total two-year curriculum. The intent of this program is to provide a foundation that allows for the completion of a Bachelor of Arts degree in approximately two years. Completion of the General Education core is required to earn the associate of arts degree in Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Social Work

The Bachelor of Social Work prepares generalist social work practitioners with the knowledge, skills, values, and ethical principles necessary to practice with Hispanic, American Indian, and other diverse populations of New Mexico and the Southwest. The curriculum builds upon a liberal arts perspective and prepares students at a generalist level to understand and evaluate the role of the social work practitioner in the delivery of human services.

Social Work

During the first year of the program, full-time students are required to take a total of 31 credit units of generalist social work practice courses. The first-year curriculum and courses provide students with an overview of the social work profession's historical evolution, including an introduction to the body of social work knowledge, values, and ethical principles.

Social Work and Business Administration Dual Degree

New Mexico Highlands University allows students to complete master's degrees in Social Work (MSW) and Business Administration (MBA) with minimal overlap.

Sociology and Anthropology (B.A.)

Sociology and Anthropology (B.S.)

Software Systems Design

Software Systems Design

Upon completing the program, Software Systems Design graduate students will have developed proficiency in a variety of programming languages and hardware solutions used by professionals in the fields of software development, web development, mobile development, game development, physical computing, and microcontrollers. Students synthesize their knowledge in a final field project or thesis.

Southwest Studies

The Master of Arts in Southwest Studies marshals interdisciplinary resources in the study of Anthropology, History, and Political Science. Students complete a core of courses in Southwestern prehistory and history; social, political, and cultural dynamics.

Spanish

Special Education

Education students may select a major in special education or a dual major in elementary and special education. The major program meets requirements for special education licensure set by the New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED). Special education students receive instruction in using evidence-based teaching approaches for students with exceptionalities. Field-Base experiences are integrated into the instructional program.

Special Education Leading to Licensure

Special Education (With License)

Substance Abuse Assessment and Treatment

Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management

Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL)

Post baccalaureate students seeking a certificate leading to an endorsement in Teaching English to speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) must complete a minimum of 12 hours of coursework at the graduate level. All endorsements are awarded by the New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED) and are subject to NMPED guidelines and requirements.

University Studies

The Bachelor of University Studies Program is designed for students who choose to complete a course of study without having declared a specific major or minor. Students can design programs of study in alignment with career skills, areas of personal interest, or creative compositions of content knowledge.

Wildlife Biology and Conservation