University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

21st Century Skills

Accounting

Accounting at UW-Green Bay provides both in-depth knowledge and the broad business background necessary to understand the role of accounting in the business world. Graduates are qualified to take professional accounting examinations, including the CPA* (Certified Public Accountant), CMA (Certified Management Accountant), and CIA (Certified Internal Auditing) examinations.

AI Certificate for Professionals

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping industries, organizations, and everyday life by influencing the way real-world problems are approached and solved. This interdisciplinary certificate provides students with a foundational understanding of AI, enabling them to understand how AI works at a conceptual level, how it influences decision-making and effective information use, and how it can be managed strategically.

Analytics for Quantitative Learners

Artificial intelligence is transforming how individuals learn, how organizations operate, and how society makes decisions. As a business school embedded in a regional comprehensive institution and serving approximately 1,600 undergraduate and graduate learners, the CSB has both an opportunity and a responsibility to leverage AI to enhance learning, improve operational effectiveness, and support regional workforce development.

Applied Politics

Art

The visual arts provide multiple ways of articulating and understanding our human experience through processes of seeing, making, and thinking by combining studio art, art history, global cultures, professional practices and contemporary art courses. Students work closely in studio environments with their instructors and develop ongoing comradery and support from peers.

Associate of Arts and Sciences

Biology

Biology is one of UW-Green Bay's most popular academic programs. The curriculum explores living systems from subcellular organelles to ecosystems. Biology majors can customize their academic plans to emphasize cell and molecular biology, animal biology, or ecology and conservation science.

Business Administration

UW-Green Bay's major and minor in Business Administration offer the skills and broad business background needed for a lifetime of opportunity. More than 90 percent of graduates typically find employment in business, industry, government, and other fields, or enter graduate programs within six months of graduation. UW-Green Bay students are accepted into reputable graduate schools. Many alumni are successful business leaders.

Business Foundations

This program is available to students who have an earned Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree in HRM, BUS MGMT, MKTG, or SCM from the Wisconsin Technical College System and meet the admission requirements for UWGB.

Chemistry

Child Welfare

The Child Welfare Certificate Program, housed administratively in the Social Work Professional Program, is a campus-wide program open to students in any major. The certificate orients and prepares students for a career in child welfare and family services.

Civic and Community Engagement

The Civic and Community Engagement Certificate Program is a campus-wide program open to students in any major that combines Academic Affairs and Student Affairs areas of our campus.

Communication

to understand how communication happens; how messages are put into visual and verbal codes; how messages are filtered through various media; how messages are interpreted and affect different audiences in different ways and in different contexts; and how students construct those contexts. New information technologies tend to merge media. A major or minor in Communication provides the kind of integrative knowledge that is required for professional careers in the field.

Community Health Education

This 120-credit program, which aligns with the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing competencies, will create new career opportunities for students and partnerships with the community; opportunities and partnerships consistent with the University's Strategic Plan.

Computer Science

Students interested in Computer Science have several options, including an emphasis in Cybersecurity, a more traditional emphasis in Software Engineering, and a minor. The two Computer Science emphases offer an expanding array of theoretical and applied work that prepares students to enter the job market or pursue graduate studies.

Criminal Justice

Criminal justice provides students with the opportunity to explore and analyze important community issues that will help enhance their civic responsibility and their ability to improve the current criminal justice system. Additionally, the program will enhance students' critical analysis skills and include opportunities to explore issues such as diversity and inclusion.

Data Analytics

This certificate enables you to develop skills for exploring and analyzing large or complex data sets. The curriculum builds on the basic analytic concepts and techniques required of data science professionals. Students completing this certificate will be well positioned to advise organizations on major decisions that can be informed by massive intertwined data sets. Certificate Program

Democracy and Justice Studies

Democracy and Justice Studies explores diverse ideals and practices of democracy and justice in the United States and the world though interdisciplinary social and historical studies. Democracy and Justice Studies students look at how people past and present have sought in various ways to sustain and change political, economic, cultural, and social orders.

Digital Marketing and Sales Management

The Digital Marketing and Sales Management Certificate is a 15-credit certificate for professionals working in the marketing functional area who desire to update their skills and knowledge.

Education

UW-Green Bay's teacher education program is approved by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. The program is designed to prepare entry- level teachers with relevant content, professional knowledge and skills to effectively meet the future learning needs of a changing school population. Students seeking an elementary to middle school license (Grades K through 9) will complete a major in Education. Graduates seeking this license will receive a bachelor's degree in Education.

Electrical Engineering

UW-Green Bay Engineering One of the fastest-growing regions in the state and the Midwest for engineering jobs, Northeast Wisconsin will see tremendous growth in the need for and recruitment of new engineers. This region has the most open positions for engineers in the state and has seen an 18% increase in demand for engineers since 2010. Engineering as a career focuses on theoretical aspects of mathematical, scientific and engineering principals.

Electrical Engineering Principles

Electrical Engineering Technology

Accreditation The Electrical Engineering Technology program is accredited by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission (ETAC) of ABET, www.abet.org. UW-Green Bay Engineering Technology Combine hands-on learning with academic coursework and get ready for high-demand jobs in the growing field of engineering technology. The University partners with regional leaders and technical colleges so that you will be prepared for an ever-changing industry.

Emergency Management

There is a nationwide effort within the Emergency Management industry today toward requiring bachelor's degrees for professionals working in the field. This translates into more jobs in the future requiring advanced knowledge, critical thinking skills, and academic preparation - in short, a college degree. A degree from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay with this added certificate will give you the edge you need to compete and succeed.

English

Courses in English develop students' understanding of important works of American, English, and world literatures, give them awareness of - and appreciation for - our literary heritage, provide them with historical and theoretical perspectives, and deepen their insight into their own experience. These courses also develop students' ability to express their ideas orally and in writing and to conduct research.

Entrepreneurship

A certificate in Entrepreneurship is available to students in all academic programs. It consists of a four-course structure. Entrepreneurship skills keep organizations viable through innovation, and are greatly valued in the workplace. Students learn about problem solving, resourcefulness, and entrepreneurial tools, as well as develop independent, creative and critical thinking skills.

Environmental Engineering Technology

Accreditation The Environmental Engineering Technology program is accredited by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission (ETAC) of ABET, www.abet.org. UW-Green Bay Engineering Technology Combine hands-on learning with academic coursework and get ready for high-demand jobs in the growing field of engineering technology. The University partners with regional leaders and technical colleges so that you will be prepared for an ever-changing industry.

Environmental Science

The Environmental Science major prepares students to analyze, understand, and solve environmental problems. While many universities are just beginning to recognize the need for environmental science programs, UW-Green Bay has over 50 years of teaching and research experience in the field. This Environmental Science program was one of the first in the nation and the interdisciplinary focus allows students to have a diverse education.

Finance

The Finance major at UW-Green Bay is designed to provide future financial professionals with practical and theoretical knowledge of various financial components, such as investments, corporate finance, capital markets, banking, risk management, international financial management, and personal financial planning.

First Nations Studies

First Nations Studies reflects the holistic worldview of the indigenous people of Turtle Island (North America). First Nations Studies is committed to the study of First Nations culture, philosophy, history, language, and the social, economic, and political status of indigenous people and their communities. The program is designed to preserve and promote the identity and sovereign status of indigenous people through the study and practice of decolonization.

Foundations of Education

The Accelerated Degree program has been designed with built-in flexibility and personalized advising, specially developed to expedite professional growth, while making it possible to manage a job, family and home. The Accelerated Degree allows for the option of completing an emphasis in Foundations of Education. Foundations of Education anticipates the demand for teachers and instructors inside and outside the classroom at the elementary, high school, postsecondary and professional levels.

French Language

This certificate will allow a professional credential in the French language by completing three-years of university level French. Students may complete any of the first four semesters via credit for prior learning, but they must complete French 320 and 325 at the college level. At the completion of French 325, they may choose to take the Global Seal of Biliteracy Exam in order ascertain their level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Geographic Information Systems

Geoscience

Geoscience is the study of Earth materials (e.g., rocks, minerals, soil, water, and air), the processes that shape and alter those components, and the interplay between the biosphere and the Earth. The program strongly emphasizes the fundamentals of geoscience, but also places special emphasis on groundwater management, soils, and other earth system processes.

German

The German program provides students with the opportunity to develop communication skills in both written and spoken German along with an understanding of and appreciation for German literature and culture.

German Engineering

In a global economy, graduates often work with international companies. In the Green Bay/NEW region, there are several companies; such as EMT International and its German partner company, Rotocontrol International; Fabio-Perini and its German parent company, the Korber group; and Millipore Sigma and its parent company, Merck HGaA. UW-Green Bay has an educational partnership with universities in the Hessian region that allows for study abroad experiences in both directions.

Graphic Design

The Graphic Design major emphasis is the study of the theory and practice of contemporary graphic design. The graphic design curriculum includes a series of core courses in the history, applications, and influences of print and web /interactive communications. The major emphasis emphasizes the design process as a creative decision-making tool.

Health Information Management

The Post-Baccalaureate HIMT certificate program is a fully online, asynchronous certificate program comprised of existing BS-HIMT courses that are part of the collaborative online BS-HIMT program. The HIMT curriculum complies with the Commission on Accreditation for Health Information and Informatics Management (CAHIIM) Education standards.

Health Information Management and Technology

Health Information Management and Technology (HIMT) The Health Information Management and Technology program prepares students to excel in one of the fastest-growing areas of healthcare-the management and use of health information. HIMT professionals work at the intersection of healthcare, information systems, data management, and regulatory compliance, ensuring that patient information is accurate, secure, and accessible.

History

History is an essential guide not only to the past, but to the present and the future. We cannot understand ourselves or our world without understanding the past. History also leads us to a greater awareness of the richness and complexity of our heritage.

Human Biology

Human Biology focuses on the study of the biological, physiological, nutritional, developmental, and evolutionary aspects of humans. The major has an extensive range of offerings with core courses emphasizing human function, genetics, nutrition, and evolution. Students who major in Human Biology gain extensive skills within the laboratory environment, including physiological, cellular, molecular, and statistical analyses.

Humanities

The Humanities is designed to help students develop a greater understanding of what it means to be human through the study of history, literature, philosophy, religion, languages, world cultures and civilizations. The Humanities program explores some of the central questions in life, such as the meaning of beauty, justice, and the "good life," as well as the importance of language, culture and artistic expression.

Human Resource Management

The Human Resource Management major at UW-Green Bay's Cofrin School of Business offers both the General Emphasis and the SHRM-CP Professional Certification Emphasis. 1. General Emphasis: - This emphasis provides a comprehensive understanding of human resource management principles and practices.

Hydrogeochemistry

The Certificate in Hydrogeochemistry prepares students for employment in the vital field of understanding principles and impacts of water chemistry in the environment.

Individual Major

An Individual Major is a self-designed program for students who find that their educational objectives cannot adequately be met by any of the University's existing majors. The Individual Major allows students to incorporate courses from several academic areas into a unique program of study intended to prepare them for employment or graduate study in a specific field of interest.

Information Technology and Data Science

The Information Technology & Data Science (ITADS) program introduces students to complex information problems topics faced in the knowledge economy. Students will learn essential qualitative and quantitative skills demanded by employers in a digital media environment. Beyond these essential practical skills, students are taught the interpersonal and managerial skills needed to collaborate and coordinate among external stakeholders to achieve a common goal.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Studies Certificate Program, housed administratively in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS), is a campus-wide program open to students in any major. Consistent with UWGB's problem-focused, interdisciplinary traditions, course work is available across a broad range of fields, including, but not limited to WGSS, Art, History, English, and Sociology.

Management

The Management major at UW-Green Bay provides students with in-depth knowledge in management through a rigorous curriculum with courses covering critical management topics such as leadership, organizational behavior, data science and decision-making, leading and functioning in teams, diversity, international business and globalization, change management and organizational culture.

Management in Health Systems

This 15 credit certificate is for professionals working, or desiring to work, in the healthcare field. This is designed to serve professionals without any post-secondary education and/or experience in healthcare management. It will provide an overview of the various aspects of healthcare management including: operational management skills and knowledge, budgeting and finance, healthcare economics and population management.

Marketing

The Marketing major in UW-Green Bay's Cofrin School of Business provides students with in-depth knowledge in marketing through a rigorous curriculum with courses covering a wide range of topics, such as digital marketing, international marketing, sales, consumer behavior, social media marketing, advertising, and marketing strategy.

Marketing Analytics

UW-Green Bay marketing analytics certificate program is designed to provide individuals with the skills and knowledge necessary to analyze marketing data and make informed decisions. The program covers topics such as data science techniques, statistical methods, marketing research, social media and digital marketing analytics.

Mathematics and Statistics

The Mathematics discipline has programs of study in two emphasis areas: mathematics and statistics. Students choosing the emphasis in mathematics will focus their studies in a discipline which has been an important part of our intellectual heritage for centuries. Students select this area of emphasis if they are interested in mathematics for its own sake (pure mathematics) or as a tool for analyzing and solving real-world problems (applied mathematics).

Mechanical Engineering

UW-Green Bay Engineering One of the fastest-growing regions in the state and the Midwest for engineering jobs, Northeast Wisconsin will see tremendous growth in the need for and recruitment of new engineers. This region has the most open positions for engineers in the state and has seen an 18% increase in demand for engineers since 2010. Engineering as a career focuses on theoretical aspects of mathematical, scientific and engineering principals.

Mechanical Engineering Principles

Mechanical Engineering Technology

Accreditation The Mechanical Engineering Technology program is accredited by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission (ETAC) of ABET, www.abet.org. UW-Green Bay Engineering Technology Combine hands-on learning with academic coursework and get ready for high-demand jobs in the growing field of engineering technology. The University partners with regional leaders and technical colleges so that you will be prepared for an ever-changing industry.

Media Arts and Production

The Bachelor of Arts in Media Arts and Production is a forward-thinking degree prepares students to be skilled media professionals with both technical expertise and creative vision. Hands-On Learning, Cross-Disciplinary Training The Media Arts and Production (MAP) program blends hands-on experience with critical media analysis, offering courses in filmmaking, digital storytelling, video and audio editing, web-based media, acting and performance, media ethics, and audience engagement.

Multicultural U.S. History

The Multicultural U.S. History Certificate enables students to think informatively and critically about the multiple perspectives and diverse cultures that have comprised the indigenous, colonial, and modern land we now call the United States. The certificate is open to students in any major or minor who wish to learn more about the historical significance of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and other forms of diversity in shaping the American experience.

Music

UW-Green Bay Music students benefit from the University's beautiful Weidner Center for the Performing Arts, one of Wisconsin's premiere performance venues with an acoustically superb environment. Most Music Department concerts and recitals are held in one of the Weidner Center's three performance spaces. Students have multiple opportunities to attend master classes, performances, and lectures by renowned guest artists who visit our campus each year.

Nonprofit Management

many graduates will find themselves working in or directing nonprofit enterprises. Understanding principles of nonprofit management and developing tools for such management is critical to future success.

Nursing

Nursing (BSN) Programs at UW-Green Bay The baccalaureate degree program in nursing at the UW-Green Bay is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (https:// www.aacnnursing.org/ccne-accreditation/), 655 K Street NW, Suite 750, Washington, DC 20001, (202) 887-6791. Our mission is to transform communities by improving health and healthcare delivery.

Organizational Development

Organizational Leadership

Organizational leadership crosses disciplinary, organizational, community, and cultural boundaries and teaches students how to contribute as citizens in a complex, multi-cultural world. Program graduates are well-positioned to embark on new careers or further study in multiple fields, or to advance in their current careers.

Personal Training

Philosophy

The study of philosophy increases our appreciation and awareness of the deep intellectual, ethical, logical, and aesthetic structure of our world. The discipline of philosophy, like mathematics, economics and chemistry, embodies formal thought, structural relationships, abstract models, symbolic languages, and deductive methods.

Physical Education

The physical education unit does not offer a major or minor. However, physical education credits are included in a student's grade point average and may be applied toward a degree where approved by a program or as elective credits. Enrollment in physical education activity presumes a student's health status is appropriate for the course selected.

Political Science

Political Science is concerned with the systematic study of political behavior, governmental institutions and policy-making processes, public policies and their implementation, and political values in local, state, national, cross-national and international settings.

Pre-Professional Geology

Pre-Professional Geology Certificate prepares students for the ASBOG Fundamentals of Geology exam, an important part of the Professional Geologist (P.G.) licensure issued by 30 U.S. states (including Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota) and Puerto Rico.

Professional Ethics

Certificate in Professional Ethics is available to students in any academic program. It is designed for a broad range of professions, including business, engineering, politics, law, medicine, nursing, social work, counseling, and teaching. Topics covered include ethical theory, professional codes of conduct, moral reflection, and ethical argumentation and debate.

Psychology

Psychology is the systematic and scientific study of behavior and mental processes (e.g., memory, emotion). It seeks to explain how physiological, personal, cultural, social, developmental, and environmental conditions influence thought and action. Research aims to understand, predict, and influence behavior. In the past century, psychology has moved from being a branch of philosophy to being both an experimental science and an active helping profession.

Public Administration

As a broad-based, interdisciplinary, social science major, Public Administration prepares students for challenging careers in public and nonprofit organizations and, if desired, further study in graduate programs. Students develop proficiency in organizational management and leadership, nonprofit management, fundraising, public policy analysis, human resources, program evaluation, policy development and implementation and budgeting.

Rising Leadership

To complement the Org Lead core classes, the Rising Leadership Certificate offers options for all students (not just women) to expand their understanding of issues of gender in organizations and to equip individuals with leadership aspirations with the ability to develop an inclusive workplace with special focus on gender equity.

Social Work

Social work is an exciting and dynamic profession. The major in Social Work, leading to the Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) degree, prepares a graduate for a career as a social worker interacting with a broad range of individuals, families, organizations, and communities.

Sociology and Anthropology

Sociology is the systematic study of social organization and social life. Sociologists use scientific and humanistic approaches to explain and understand social behavior and social systems. Topics include collective behavior and social movements; deviant behavior, crime and punishment; gender and human sexuality; race and ethnicity, community and urban society; and social class and status. Anthropology is the comparative study of human diversity through time and across the world.

Software Engineering

Spanish and Latin American Studies

The Spanish and Latin American Studies program provides students with communication skills in both written and spoken Spanish and gives them an understanding of and appreciation for the peoples, literatures, and cultures of Spain and Latin America. Stronger ties with the Spanish-speaking world and the growing number of Spanish-speakers in the United States have significantly increased the need for teachers and speakers of Spanish.

Spanish/English Translation and Interpretation

This undergraduate Certificate in Spanish/English Translation and Interpretation provides UW-Green Bay students with a broad exposure to the theory and practice of the growing field of translation studies. Students can complement any major or minor with this Certificate. The Certificate does not substitute for or counts as a major or minor. However, Spanish courses completed towards the Certificate can also count towards a major or minor in Spanish.

SPARK

SPARK Certificate for Professional Success The CAHSS SPARK (Self-Powered Adaptive and Resilient Knowledge) Certificate for Professional Success is an interdisciplinary certificate designed to equip students with the essential skills needed to thrive in today's dynamic and ever-changing professional landscape.

Supply Chain Management

Certificate in Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a 15 credit certificate for professionals working or desiring to work in the supply chain management function. This is designed to serve professionals with or without formal education and/or experience in SCM. It will provide an overview of the various aspects of SCM, improve the understanding of various principles and its applications in global supply chain management.

Teaching English as a Second Language

The certificate of completion in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) is offered under the auspices of the Humanities program as an 18- credit program of study. It is designed for students who want to teach in situations that do not require Wisconsin public school teacher licensure, such as teaching English overseas or in adult literacy programs or tutorial programs sponsored by community service organizations or private companies.

Texts and Technology

Despite initial uncertainty surrounding the public consumption of generative artificial intelligence, writers and authors are maintaining steady growth nationwide . According to a recent Forbes survey, the list of most in-demand skills includes the effective use of GAI, communication, project management, and intrapersonal networking: all of these skills are the core found in technical and professional writers. Writing and technology have, from the clay tablet on, been close bedfellows.

Transforming Systems of Support

Social work's core ethical responsibilities include taking action to promote social change in service of vulnerable and oppressed populations. Many of these individuals and communities have been impacted by trauma as well as systems unresponsive to the unique needs of the population group. This course of study provides a framework for considering the impact of trauma and oppression when working across systems.

Water Science

The UW-Green Bay Water Science program is an integrated program designed to provide students with the tools necessary to solve the water related challenges of today and tomorrow. Students may complete program requirements in four years. The curriculum is interdisciplinary, with a core set of courses drawn from geoscience, chemistry, environmental science, biology, physics, math, and statistics.

Workforce Solutions

Writing and Applied Arts

To meet industry demand for exceptional writing skills infused with creativity, UW-Green Bay offers the first and only degree of its kind in the UW- System: The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Writing and Applied Arts. Craft-Focused Workshops, Community-Facing Opportunities The B.F.A.