University of Northern Colorado

Accounting

Acting

A Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting prepares students for professional performance careers in the theatre, television and film industries through the study of acting, voice/speech, and movement.

Africana Studies

Graduates gain a liberal arts education and skills for working in multicultural environments, and understand the struggles and accomplishments of people of African descent.

American Sign Language

American Sign Language English Interpretation

The ASL-English interpretation (ASLEI) baccalaureate program prepares majors to provide competent interpreting services between individuals who are deaf and use ASL and individuals who do not know ASL.

Analytical Chemistry

Exposes students to the fundamental principles of chemical methods of analysis and competency in various aspects of chemical analysis, including proficiency in instrumental methods such as spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and chromatography.

Anthropology

Focuses on the integrated, multidisciplinary nature of anthropological theory and methods to analyze and interpret human cultural and biological variation in historic, prehistoric and global context.

Applied Leadership

A series of courses designed to educate, motivate, and equip students to confront the challenges of leadership in a complex, connected, and diverse world, complementing any degree program or standing alone.

Applied Statistics & Research Methods

Applied Statistics & Research Methods

Art and Design

Offers concentrations in graphic design, studio art, and visual art licensure (K-12), integrating practice, theory, and critical thinking across print and digital media.

Art & Design

Arts Entrepreneurship

Prepares students for success in the professional performing and visual arts, combining common entrepreneurship coursework with study in the student's primary artistic discipline (Art and Design, Music, or Theatre Arts & Dance).

Asian Studies

Prepares individuals with a broad understanding of Asia as a region and in-depth understanding of a particular region through study of the languages, history, literatures, arts, and cultures of Asia.

Athletic Training Master

Biological Education

Biological Sciences

Biological Sciences

Emphasizes the biological principles underlying all living systems, with concentrations including cell and molecular biology, ecology and evolutionary biology, liberal arts, pre-health and biomedical sciences, and secondary science licensure.

Biomedical Science

Botany

Prepares students for careers in resource management fields that require basic botanical knowledge, providing an understanding of plant identification, plant taxonomy, and the role of plants in ecological communities.

Brewing Laboratory Science

Prepares students for laboratory work in the beer brewing industry, providing both a theoretical background in brewing and laboratory analysis of malt, wort, and beer components.

Brewing Laboratory Science

Business Administration

Prepares students for careers in business with concentrations including accounting, computer information systems, entrepreneurship, finance, general business, hospitality and event management, human resource management, institutions and risk management, management, marketing, and wealth and asset management.

Business Administration

Business Analytics

Chemical Education

Chemistry

Chemistry

Provides a broad background in chemistry with concentrations including biochemistry (ACS certified), chemistry (ACS certified), forensic science, industrial chemistry, pre-health, and secondary science licensure.

Climate Science

A multidisciplinary major preparing individuals for careers involving climate monitoring and management as well as climate change adaptation and mitigation; includes a meteorology concentration.

Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Communication Sciences and Disorders

A pre-professional bachelor's degree in audiology and speech-language sciences, exploring how communication disorders are evaluated and treated.

Communication Studies

Examines the many ways message exchange is the foundation of human societies and cultures, focusing on theoretical, analytic and practical aspects of human interaction.

Computer Programming

Provides students an opportunity to develop skills in computer programming as a stackable certificate toward a BS in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or as a supplement to another degree.

Computer Science

Focuses on the design of computers, computational processes for problem-solving, and information transfer and transformation, emphasizing software and system quality, security, performance, and usability.

Counseling Psychology

Counselor Education & Supervision

Criminology and Criminal Justice

Criminology and Criminal Justice

Relies on an interdisciplinary approach to the study of crime, the criminal justice system, and society, grounded in the liberal arts tradition.

Dance Education

Data Analytics

Supports undergraduate students to develop skills in data analytics as a stackable certificate toward a BS in Statistics, or as a supplement to another degree, focusing on hands-on analytical methods and tools.

Data Science and Statistics

Provides instruction in the techniques, applications, and theories of statistics and data science, including the design and analysis of statistical models and data sets across a wide variety of settings.

Diagnostic Assessment and Skills Training Series

Uses an in-depth pre-diagnostic assessment and report to identify strengths and weaknesses in interpreting work, with a set of three courses designed to help analyze and improve interpreting skills.

Didactic Dietetics Education

An existing bachelor's degree is required to enroll. Successful completion permits a student to earn a Verification Statement to become eligible to pursue supervised practice toward becoming a registered dietitian nutritionist.

Dietetics

Prepares graduates for dietetic internships, graduate school, and entry-level practice in foods and nutrition; accredited as a Didactic Program in Dietetics.

Dietetics

Dietetics with Internship

Digital Marketing

A four-course certificate for students interested in acquiring knowledge, skills, and tools in areas of digital marketing such as e-commerce, user experience, design, web development, advertising, and content creation.

Drone Operations and Spatial Analytics

Provides a credential to students and individuals who have demonstrated competency in the planning and operation of small un-crewed aerial systems (sUAS) and analyzing the spatial data collected.

Early Childhood

Provides a broad background of knowledge in liberal arts and the skills needed for early childhood settings; concentrations include liberal arts and birth-to-age-eight teaching licensure.

Early Childhood Teacher Education (Birth - Grade 3)

Earth Sciences

Economics

Economics majors learn the traditional tools and concepts of economics and quantitative procedures, with concentrations including business economics, environmental policy, international economic policy, and liberal arts.

Education

Educational Interpreting

A 29-credit hour program of specialized coursework designed for K-12 Sign Language Interpreters, addressing essential interpreting skills and knowledge sets to interpret for students who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Educational Leadership

Educational Leadership

Educational Leadership

Educational Psychology

Educational Psychology

Educational Technology

Educational Technology

Educational Technology/Innovative Pedagogy

Elementary Ed

Elementary Education

Prepares students to become elementary education teachers through recommended liberal arts, professional teacher education, and content coursework. Offered with multiple concentrations (Education New Literacies, Mathematics, Performing and Visual Arts, Science, Social Studies, Special Education, and Nonlicensure Educational Studies).

Emergency Nurse Practitioner (ENP)

English

English

Prepares students for professions and graduate programs that stress language and critical thinking, including law, library science, communications, media, and business. Offered with Literature, Culture and Creativity and Writing, Editing and Publishing concentrations.

English Education

English Secondary Education

Prepares graduates to serve as secondary English/Language Arts teachers (grades 6-12). Offered with English Language and Literature, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education, and Special Education concentrations.

Entrepreneurship

The applied aspect and customization of coursework to fit the student's interests and career plans, developing entrepreneurial mindsets and knowledge of opportunity discovery, venture creation, and entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Environmental and Sustainability Studies

Built on the three pillars of sustainability—environment, economics, and equity—the program prepares students to develop environmental solutions integrating these concerns.

Environmental Earth Sciences

Prepares students for careers in environmental monitoring, regulation, or management and for graduate study in fields such as resource management and environmental policy. Offered with Geology and Licensure: Science concentrations.

Environmental Geosciences

Equity and Inclusion

A stand-alone, multidisciplinary credential for diversity awareness and action, independent of any major, allowing students to deepen critical inquiry and seek equity and inclusion grounded in social scientific evidence and theory.

European Languages and Cultures

Foreign Languages

Foreign Languages

Foundations of Professional Psychology

Geography

The study of the social, environmental, and locational processes that create diversity from place to place. Offered with Community Development, Field Studies, Geographic Information Science, and Regional Studies concentrations.

Gerontology

GIS and Cartography

Prepares students for careers that use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to generate maps, store map-related information, and analyze geographic data, complementing majors across the social and natural sciences.

Graduate Interdisciplinary

Health Sciences

Prepares graduates for careers in health-related organizations. Offered with Healthcare Administration and Public Health concentrations.

Higher Education & Student Affairs Leadership

History

History

Historical study forms the background for other areas of knowledge; graduates pursue careers in law, government, education, and business. Offered with Liberal Arts and Licensure: Social Studies (Grades 6-12) concentrations.

Human Rehabilitation

Human Resource Management

Prepares students interested in a human resource management career, offering a strong overview of HR and a deep understanding of recruiting, selection, training, performance management, compensation, and change management.

Human Services

Provides a comprehensive understanding of the techniques and theories in the helping professions, with fieldwork experiences integrated into course requirements.

Inclusive Early Childhood Education/Early Childhood Special Education

Interdisciplinary Studies: Student Designed

Enables students to pursue an interdisciplinary program of study designed in substitution for a traditional major, drawing on at least two disciplines with two faculty advisors.

International Affairs

Develops a broad understanding of international issues through an interdisciplinary combination of courses with a regional focus; foreign language study is required. Offered with Area Studies and International Political Economy concentrations.

Journalism

Provides critical skills and hands-on experience in reporting, writing, editing, and producing news for print, broadcast, and the web.

Leadership and Supervision

A four-course series of online, specialized coursework designed for individuals working in or aspiring to positions as lead interpreters, mentors, supervisors or leaders within an ASL-English interpreting system.

Legal Interpreter Training

A four-semester program of specialized coursework designed for ASL-English interpreters who wish to work in the legal system, including knowledge courses about the Legal System, Civil and Criminal Law, and a practicum.

Liberal Arts, Licensure Program

Literacy

Marriage, Couples, and Family Counseling/Therapy

Mathematics

Provides a foundation in the mathematical sciences with concentration options including Computer Science, Pure and Applied Mathematical Sciences, Statistics and Data Science, and licensure tracks for middle and secondary school mathematics.

Mathematics

Mathematics Education

Mexican American Studies

Provides knowledge and understanding of the historical development and cultural experience of Mexican Americans. Offered with Liberal Arts and Licensure: Social Studies (Grades 6-12) concentrations.

Multilingual Education

Music

Music

Musical Theatre

Prepares students for professional performance careers in the musical theatre industry through the study of music, voice, acting, dance, and movement skills.

Music (BA)

A flexible, student-centered liberal arts music degree offering a broad overview of the music field. Offered with Culture and Expression, Latinx Music, and Music Business and Recording Arts concentrations.

Music (BM)

The Bachelor of Music develops skills, concepts, and sensitivity essential to a professional musician and prepares students for graduate study. Offered with Composition, Instrumental Performance, Jazz Studies, Piano, and Vocal Performance concentrations.

Music Education

Prepares students to become broadly based school music educators with licensure to teach music K-12.

Nursing

Nursing

A nine-semester program leading to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, with a pre-clinical phase followed by a clinical course sequence, preparing professional nurses.

Nursing Education

Nursing Practice

Nursing (RN-BSN)

The RN-BSN program is a five semester program leading to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree for registered nurses. Nursing is an independent professional discipline requiring critical inquiry and discriminating judgment to assist individuals, families and communities to attain and maintain health.

Nursing (RN to BSN)

A five-semester program leading to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing for registered nurses seeking to complete their bachelor's degree.

Nutrition

The Nutrition degree is intended for students who want to focus on the sciences and the scientific basis for nutrition. This is a major for those who are not pursuing dietetic registration.

Philosophy

The major in philosophy is designed to provide both a solid undergraduate education in philosophy and a foundation for the further study of philosophy at the graduate level, including pre-professional students such as those intending to study law.

Physical Education

Physics

This major focuses on the main laws and principles of physics through a basic core of physics and support courses, with electives at the junior/senior level to tailor the program toward future goals.

Political Science

This program emphasizes the development of the analytical, research, and writing skills necessary to think critically and reflect upon political values and public policy.

Professional Selling and Customer Relationship Management

Focused on developing strong sales skills and deep product knowledge within a core business discipline, preparing students to enter technical sales fields.

Psychology

Students learn the research methods and core theories employed by psychologists, with a curriculum emphasizing diversity, equity, and inclusion to apply psychological education in diverse communities.

Public Health

Recording Arts

A six-course certificate designed for music students who want to pursue a career in the music industry involving music technology, developing a foundation in contemporary technologies for recording, producing, and marketing music.

Recreation, Tourism and Hospitality

Rehabilitation Counseling

Safety Science

Prepares students for field site and laboratory work around industrial hazardous materials, providing both a theoretical background in science and practical training in environmental settings with appropriate protective equipment.

School Counseling

School Library Education

School Psychology

School Psychology

Science Education

Secondary Pedagogy

Social Science

Sociology

Sociology

Sociology offers broad scope and relevance for research, theory and the application of knowledge to address social problems in virtually any work environment, preparing students with marketable skills for public and private job sectors.

Software Engineering

A collaborative degree that prepares students to apply a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development of software employing technology independent standard processes, covering software requirements, design, project planning, metrics, and testing.

Spanish

Students develop a functional proficiency in the four language skills and an appreciation and understanding of the civilization and culture of the Hispanic world.

Spanish for the Professions

Equips students preparing for careers in business, criminal justice, or health care to communicate effectively with native Spanish-speaking stakeholders.

Special Education

The curriculum prepares special education teachers with courses in professional teacher preparation and special education theory, practice, and pedagogy, allowing K-12 special education teachers to assess and identify students with disabilities and provide individualized instruction.

Special Education

Special Education

Speech-Language Pathology

Sport Administration

Sports Administration is an applied field that enables students to combine sport specific content and administrative practices in preparation for the continually changing world of sport administration.

Sport and Exercise Science

The program provides academic and professional preparation in the scientific study of exercise science and human movement, offering a theoretical foundation and clinical applications to prepare graduates for health-related professional programs and careers.

Sport and Exercise Science

Sports and Exercise Science

Sports Coaching

Teaching American Sign Language

Teaching Diverse Learners

Theatre Arts

A major in Theatre Arts provides pre-professional training for students who have professional theatre employment as their career goal and cultivates an appreciation and understanding of theatre as part of American society and culture.

Theatre Design and Technology

Provides students with foundational knowledge in theatrical design and technology while offering the opportunity for advanced study in specific disciplines through chosen certificate electives.

Theatre Design/Technology

A Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Design/Technology prepares students for professional careers in lighting, costume, sound, and scenic design, technical direction, scene painting, properties design and technology, or stage management.

Theatre Education

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Wildlife

Prepares students for careers in resource management fields that require basic wildlife knowledge, providing an understanding of wildlife diversity and distribution, management and conservation of wildlife species, and their ecological role.

Zoology

Prepares students for careers in resource management fields that require basic animal knowledge, providing an understanding of animal identification, animal taxonomy, and the role of animals in ecological communities.