Westminster University

Accountancy

The Master of Accountancy is designed for students pursuing a professional career in accounting and prepares them to sit for the CPA exam. It requires 30 credits, or 26 hours for Early Entrants to the MACC Program.

Accounting (BA)

Bachelor of Arts in Accounting combining the accounting major with a declared academic minor or world-language coursework, covering financial, cost, tax, and audit accounting.

Accounting (BS)

Bachelor of Science in Accounting covering financial, cost, tax, and audit accounting. Students who wish to sit for the CPA examination complete additional graduate hours in business and accounting.

Adventure Therapy

Adventure Therapy is a post-baccalaureate certificate program offered at Westminster University.

Applied Psychology

Applied Psychology is a master's degree program offered at Westminster University.

Art

The Art Program offers an academic major leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree. The program is designed to give students the skills and confidence in their abilities needed to produce works of art, schooling them in a variety of techniques including drawing, painting, photography, and ceramics.

Arts Administration

The Arts Administration Program offers a major in Arts Administration leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree. The curriculum is designed to prepare a student for a productive career as a leader of an arts organization. Students are required to have an accompanying minor in Art, Dance, Film Studies, Graphic Design, Music, or Theatre.

Arts and Social Justice

The Arts and Social Justice Certificate is an undergraduate certificate that gives students a grounding in a particular skill set to supplement their major. It culminates in an Applied Experience, an internship or service-learning course applying learning outside the classroom.

Biology

The Biology program offers a Bachelor of Science degree with a breadth of coursework and a focus on laboratory learning ranging from molecular to organismal topics. Undergraduate research is prominent in the program, and integrated lab/lecture blocks emphasize active project-based learning.

Business Administration

The MBA program prepares students to be executive leaders in organizations, offering flexibility in completing core and elective coursework. Requirements total 32-37 credit hours depending on whether foundational Fundamentals courses are required.

Business Administration

A competency-based, faculty-coached degree-completion program designed for working professionals who already hold an associate's degree. Students complete five sequenced project sequences to demonstrate mastery of business competencies.

Business Administration (Project-Based)

The Project-Based MBA is a competency-based, low-residency program built around five project sequences using real-world business application projects instead of traditional courses. The program totals 39 credit hours and can be completed in approximately five semesters.

Business Administration (Technology Commercialization)

The MBATC program is designed for professionals with science and engineering backgrounds preparing for executive roles in technology-driven business environments. It combines MBA Core coursework with an MBATC Core focused on commercialization of innovative products, totaling 32-37 credit hours.

Business Computer Information Systems

Business Computer Information Systems (BCIS) is an interdepartmental program between the Department of Computer Science and the Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business, combining technical computer science coursework with several business courses. It emphasizes the acquisition, deployment, and management of information technology and data architecture.

Business Economics

Bachelor of Science in Business Economics emphasizing the close relationship between economics and business, integrated with a strong foundation in business fundamentals through the Undergraduate Business Core.

Business Management

The Graduate Certificate in Business Management requires 8 graduate semester hours covering communication, strategy, leadership, and marketing.

Chemistry

The Chemistry program offers an academic major leading to a Bachelor of Science degree. The program provides preparation for a professional career or graduate study in chemistry, an understanding of basic chemistry concepts and laboratory operations, and pre-professional study for careers in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and nursing.

Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Educates students in the fundamentals of counseling theory and practice within an experiential and interpersonal learning environment. Completion satisfies academic requirements for licensure in Utah as an associate clinical mental health counselor.

Coding

The Coding Certificate is an undergraduate certificate that gives students a grounding in a particular skill set to supplement their major. It culminates in an Applied Experience applying learning outside the classroom.

Communication

The Communication program offers an academic major leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree. It teaches students theoretical principles and practical skills in the context of humanistic inquiry, preparing them for careers in corporate and government communication, nonprofit organizations, public affairs, advertising, public relations, technical writing, and journalism.

Community and Organizational Leadership

Prepares graduates for leadership positions across nonprofit, business, government, and community settings. Students may pursue a Comprehensive Track or specialized emphases including Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion or Trauma and Wellness, culminating in a capstone research project.

Community & Organizational Leadership

Community & Organizational Leadership is a post-baccalaureate certificate program offered at Westminster University.

Community Organizing and Social Activism

An interdisciplinary, 16-month graduate program requiring significant hands-on service-learning and international study at Westminster instructional sites in Europe, Africa, SE Asia, and Latin America. It prepares leaders for careers in government, nonprofit, educational, and community development organizations.

Computer Science

The Computer Science Program offers an academic major leading to the Bachelor of Science degree. The curriculum is designed to meet the needs of students whose ultimate objective is to pursue a career in the field or to go on to postgraduate study.

Dance (BA)

The Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Dance is a generalist degree that allows students to explore a broad foundation of studies in dance theories, techniques, and practices, choosing dance elective courses based on their interests. It is well suited to students who plan to double major.

Dance (BFA)

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Dance is a pre-professional degree that builds upon the core foundations of dance theory, technique, and practice with expanded coursework and in-depth training. Completing this track signifies readiness for entry-level professional work in dance after graduation.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Certificate is an undergraduate certificate that gives students a grounding in a particular skill set to supplement their major. It culminates in an Applied Experience, an internship or service-learning course applying learning outside the classroom.

Economics

Bachelor of Arts in Economics with a Liberal Arts Concentration, incorporating a significant liberal arts component alongside economics; students in this option do not complete the Undergraduate Business Core.

Education

A flexible degree enabling educators to develop expertise in an area of interest through action research or qualitative research projects. Students can pursue endorsements and emphases such as Adult and Higher Education, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), and Trauma and Wellness.

Educational Studies

An academic major leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree in Educational Studies, preparing graduates to educate in non-formal settings such as educational policy centers, corporate training, higher education, libraries, and nonprofit organizations. This major does not meet requirements for K-12 teacher licensure.

Elementary Education

A Bachelor of Arts major preparing students for Grades K-6 teaching licensure through the School of Education's Educator Preparation Program, aligned with the Utah Effective Teaching Standards. Elementary Education majors must also complete an approved academic or teaching minor.

Environmental Studies (BA)

Environmental Studies is an interdisciplinary program combining the perspectives of the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. The Bachelor of Arts degree includes a Society and Culture Concentration and emphasizes experiential learning through internships, research, and off-campus study experiences.

Environmental Studies (BS)

Environmental Studies is an interdisciplinary program combining the perspectives of the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. The Bachelor of Science degree includes a Science and the Environment Concentration and emphasizes experiential learning through internships, research, and off-campus study experiences.

Executive Financial Management

The Graduate Certificate in Executive Financial Management requires 8 graduate semester hours covering managerial accounting, executive financial decision making, and investment strategy.

Executive Leadership

The Graduate Certificate in Executive Leadership requires 8 graduate semester hours covering ethics and governance, high performance organization, global management, and a leadership elective.

Finance (BA)

Bachelor of Arts in Finance combining the finance major with world-language coursework or a declared academic minor, preparing students for careers in corporate finance, investments, and banking.

Finance (BS)

Bachelor of Science in Finance preparing students for careers in corporate finance, international finance, investments, banking, consulting, or business financial planning.

Geology

The Geology program offers a Bachelor of Science degree for students interested in understanding the earth. The degree incorporates a diversity of perspectives and methods, with lecture, lab, and fieldwork to study the planet's physical, chemical, and biological history.

History

The History major emphasizes traditional, digital, and community-based methods of primary historical research and the communication of historical knowledge across written, oral, and digital forms. Note: the catalog does not print a BA/BS designation for History; BA is inferred as it is a liberal-arts humanities major with a world-language requirement.

International Business

Bachelor of Arts in International Business emphasizing specialized skills for the global environment, combining general and international business coursework with intensive language and cultural studies. Offered only as a Bachelor of Arts.

International Development and Service

An interdisciplinary, 16-month graduate program combining rigorous graduate-level study with hands-on volunteer service abroad. Drawing from international development, nonprofit leadership, global health, and human rights, it prepares leaders for professional careers in the governmental, nonprofit, and community organization sectors.

Justice Studies

The catalog states the program 'offers a Bachelor of Science in Justice Studies as an academic major.' It treats justice as a broad category of social and ethical problems relating to crime, economic and social justice, community rights, environmental justice, and global justice, requiring independent research and experiential learning.

Leadership

An undergraduate certificate grounding students in leadership skills through required leadership courses, an elective, and an applied experience (internship or service-learning). Aligns with NACE career-readiness competencies and is designed for undergraduates enrolled in a degree program.

Literature, Media, and Writing

Formerly English. Students analyze literature and media across periods, cultures, and genres and develop evidence-supported written and spoken arguments, with emphases in Literary Studies (62 hrs) or Creative Writing (63 hrs). Note: the catalog does not print a BA/BS designation; BA is inferred. Credit hours left blank because the major has no single stated total (differs by emphasis).

Management (BA)

Bachelor of Arts in Management combining the management major with a declared academic minor or world-language coursework, preparing students to lead and manage in business organizations.

Management (BS)

Bachelor of Science in Management preparing students to manage effectively across a wide variety of business organizations by mastering fundamental management principles and tools.

Marketing (BA)

Bachelor of Arts in Marketing combining the marketing major with a declared academic minor or world-language coursework, covering fundamental marketing principles and tools.

Marketing (BS)

Bachelor of Science in Marketing preparing students to deliver marketing results across a variety of organizations by mastering fundamental marketing principles and tools.

Mathematics

The Mathematics Program offers an academic major with core lower- and upper-division mathematics, required physics and a computational requirement. Note: the catalog does not print a BA/BS designation for Mathematics and it is genuinely ambiguous (heavy science/proof content); credential left blank for the orchestrator to resolve.

Media Literacy

An undergraduate certificate providing grounding in media literacy through required communication courses, an elective, and an applied experience (internship or service-learning). Aligns with NACE career-readiness competencies and is designed for undergraduates enrolled in a degree program.

Music

The Florence J. Gilmor School of Music offers a Bachelor of Arts in music with a Performance Emphasis (piano, 74 hrs; or vocal, 73 hrs). Credit hours left blank because the major has no single stated total (differs by performance emphasis). Distinguished from the separate Music Studies major per the catalog's double-dipping list.

Music Studies

A Bachelor of Arts music major (Music Studies track) combining performance-based coursework, academic music theory/history, electives, and a senior project. Listed by the catalog as a distinct major separate from the Music (performance) major.

Neuroscience

The catalog states 'The Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience offers a Bachelor of Science degree.' It provides a breadth of coursework across Psychology and the natural sciences for the scientific study of the development, structure, and function of the nervous system.

Nursing

The undergraduate nursing program prepares professional nurse generalists through a major leading to a Bachelor of Science degree; graduates are eligible to take the national licensing examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN). The program is fully accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.

Nursing (Family Nurse Practitioner)

Builds on a baccalaureate nursing degree to prepare advanced practice nurses in primary health care. Graduates are eligible to take ANCC or AANP certification exams and apply for Utah licensure as Advanced Practice Registered Nurses with prescriptive authority; the program requires 720 clinical practice hours.

Nursing Practice

A post-graduate program preparing advanced practice nurses with skills in leadership, clinical experience, and the business of health. Delivered in a hybrid executive format over three full-time semesters and requiring a doctoral-level scholarly project. Requires entry with an APRN master's degree; 1000 clinical hours are required for the degree.

Nursing Practice (Nurse Anesthesia)

Provides an academic environment for experienced graduate-level nurses to master the intellectual and technical skills required for the safe administration of anesthesia. Graduates are prepared to sit for the National Board of Certification and Recertification of Nurse Anesthetists (NBCRNA) examination.

Organizational Leadership

Organizational Leadership is a post-baccalaureate certificate program offered at Westminster University.

Outdoor Education and Leadership

A Bachelor of Arts major that develops leadership, technical, and critical thinking skills through field-based, experiential, and integrated learning, preparing graduates for careers in the outdoor education and recreation profession.

Philosophy (BA)

The Philosophy Program offers an academic major leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree, developing critical and philosophical thinking skills to examine human systems of value, knowledge, and belief. The BA requires a world-language (history) requirement in lieu of the BS laboratory-science requirement.

Philosophy (BS)

The Philosophy Program offers an academic major leading to a Bachelor of Science degree, with the same requirements as the BA except that students take eight credit hours of a laboratory science in lieu of the history/world-language requirement.

Physics

The catalog states 'The Physics Program offers an academic major leading to the Bachelor of Science degree.' It prepares students for graduate work in physics/engineering, professional science and engineering careers, secondary teaching, or broadening knowledge of the natural world.

Political Science

Political Science offers an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts academic major with political science as its core focus, drawing relevant courses from a number of disciplines to enhance understanding of the global and domestic contexts of politics.

Professional Accounting

The Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting requires 12 graduate semester hours taken at Westminster University. It provides specialization in accounting and may be completed in conjunction with the MBA or MBATC degree.

Psychology

Psychology offers an academic major leading to a Bachelor of Science degree (with an optional Emphasis in Cognitive Science, collapsed here), providing academic and experiential background for graduate study or employment in social service, research, and related settings.

Public Health

Provides formal education for those currently working in or interested in the public health arena. Students may continue their education by applying certificate credits toward Westminster's MPH degree with approval from the MPH director; the program runs from August to December.

Public Health

Prepares future public health leaders to address population health challenges through teaching, scholarly activities, service, and community-based projects. The 10-month hybrid program is designed for working professionals and can be completed in as little as three semesters.

Public Health

The Bachelor of Science in Public Health addresses the health of communities and populations through instruction, service, and research, emphasizing the role of the humanities and social sciences alongside scientific and quantitative approaches to public health problems.

Quantitative Business Skills

The Graduate Certificate in Quantitative Business Skills requires 8 graduate semester hours covering data, economics, operations, and an analytics elective.

Sociology

The catalog states 'Sociology offers an academic major and minor leading to a Bachelor of Science degree.' Sociology is the study of social life including social interactions, relationships, groups, organizations, and institutions, with optional concentrations in Gender and Sexuality or Social Work and Social Welfare.

Spanish-Latin American Studies

An interdisciplinary academic major combining Spanish language and Hispanic/Latin American literature, culture, history, and social science, including a study-abroad or internship requirement. Offered jointly by the Language Program and the Spanish program (listed once as a single major). Note: the catalog does not print a BA/BS designation; BA is inferred for this humanities/language major.

Sports Management (BA)

Bachelor of Arts in Sports Management combining the sports management major with liberal arts, world-language, or a declared academic minor, preparing students for leadership in sports-related organizations.

Sports Management (BS)

Bachelor of Science in Sports Management preparing students to analyze the competitive environment of the sports industry and apply leadership, management, and administrative practices specific to sports organizations.

Teaching

An integrated degree program leading to K-12 teaching licensure for students who already hold a bachelor's degree. It combines classroom instruction with extensive experience in diverse classrooms, offering licensure areas in Elementary Education (K-6) and Secondary Education (6-12).

Teaching Adult and Higher Education

A graduate certificate embedded in the Master of Education (M.Ed.) section requiring 9 credit hours. Required courses include MED 613 Theories of Adult Learning and MED 634 Teaching Adults.

Teaching English to Multilingual Learners

A graduate certificate embedded in the Master of Education (M.Ed.) section requiring 15 credit hours of required courses in multilingual learner education (MED 620-625).

Technology Commercialization

The Graduate Certificate in Technology Commercialization requires 8 graduate semester hours covering organization/technology/society, intellectual property strategy, marketing innovative products, and new product development.

Theatre (BA)

The Bachelor of Arts in Theatre is a generalist degree exploring performance, production, and design, allowing students to incorporate knowledge and skills across all theatre studies. The BA has no emphases.

Theatre (BFA)

The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre is a professional/conservatory-track degree completed in addition to the BA Theatre requirements, with emphases in Acting (79-91 hrs) or Production and Design (81-93 hrs). Credit hours left blank because the BFA has no single stated total (differs by emphasis).

Trauma-Responsive Education

A graduate certificate embedded in the Master of Education (M.Ed.) section requiring 9 graduate semester hours: MED 637 Foundations of Holistic Wellness, MED 639 Neuroscience of Trauma, and MED 640 Trauma-informed Schools.

Trauma-Responsive Leadership

Trauma-Responsive Leadership is a post-baccalaureate certificate program offered at Westminster University.

Visual Art

The Art Program offers an academic major leading to the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Students apply for acceptance into the BFA program by submitting a portfolio during the spring semester of the sophomore year. The program is designed to give students the skills and confidence needed to produce works of art through general knowledge of art and art history and a variety of techniques.