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Sep 12, 2024
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2024 - 2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Bachelor of Professional Studies
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The bachelors of professional studies is designed to prepare graduate to further their careers in the workplace. Returning students with college coursework take general education courses, foundational courses for the major, and satisfy a minor, certificate, and cognate requirements of 18 credit hours. This body of coursework gives them a grounding in both the liberal arts and knowledge and skills related to the professional sphere as well as a more focused area of study with the minor, certificate, and cognate requirement.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Effectively communicate ideas in a professional setting in both speech and writing.
- Employ leadership and project management principles in a professional setting to enhance their role in teams.
- Apply personnel management principles in a professional setting to enhance teams and offices.
- Make complex, strategic decisions informed by data and research in a professional setting.
- Demonstrate knowledge of a liberal arts education and understand how to apply this knowledge in a professional setting.
- Enact principles of diversity at work to make workplaces more equitable.
To be eligible for entry into the Professional Studies degree, a student must satisfy one of the following requirements: be 25 years of age, hold an associate degree, or have 45 previous college credits.
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Degree Requirements (120 credits)
General Education Requirements (30 credits)
Students who earn a bachelor’s degree are expected to demonstrate a breadth of knowledge and skills appropriate to an undergraduate degree. The general education requirements ensure this breadth of knowledge. Students must complete the following: - ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 or equivalents.
- One math or stats course at the 132 level or higher. Discipline-specific statistics classes are also acceptable.
- One science class with a lab experience.
- Two courses from two different disciplines from the following: anthropology, geography, political science,psychology, or sociology.
- Two courses from two different disciplines from the following: art history, art studio, English, history, language, music, philosophy, theater, or visual arts.
- Additional courses from the above lists totaling 30 credits.
Acceptable courses from other disciplines will be considered and approved on a case-by-case basis.5
5 Assessment for the general education requirement will take place in the BPS capstone course
(PRST 454).
Graduation Requirements
Minimum grade of C is required. Choose one from the following:
Professional Studies Foundation Courses (18 credits)
Complete the following courses:
Leadership for Professional Organizations course (choose one course from the following):
Communication for Professional Organizations course (choose one course from the following):
Major Requirements (18-36 credits)
This requirement is designed to encourage students to focus on an area or areas of study that will complement their Professional Studies foundation courses and general education courses. Students must complete at least 18 credit hours in a minor,
cognate, or certificate. Combinations of minors, cognates or certificates can be paired to satisfy the 18-credit hour requirement. Students may earn up to 36 hours in a combination of minors, cognates, and certificates. Minors and certificates are established in the CCU Catalog and have existing credit-hour requirements. Cognates, which require at least 12 credit hours for this degree, will be established for individual students in consultation with the Office of the Dean of Graduate and Continuing Studies.
Electives (33-51 credits)
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