Majors and concentrations

At Colorado State, there are two primary methods you can explore your passions: majors and concentrations. A major is the degree you will earn at graduation, while a concentration focuses on a specific field of study related to a major. Not every major has a concentration and students can also broaden their studies by adding a minor.

Students can also enter CSU as an Undeclared-Exploring student, meaning you’ll be able to explore your interests without declaring a major.

Academic interest areas

	Arts, Humanities and Design
	Environmental and Natural Resources
	Global and Social Sciences
	Health, Life and Food Sciences
	Land, Plant and Animal Sciences
	Organization, Management and Enterprise
	Physical Sciences and Engineering

Agricultural Business     

The Agricultural Business major teaches students the operating techniques and business skills used in the modern food and fiber industry. This program builds student knowledge and skills needed to manage small and medium sized business in agriculture and allied industries. This is true whether the business is directly involved in production, value-adds to raw agricultural products, or provides support services including the distribution, processing, packaging, and marketing of agricultural products.

Agricultural Economics Concentration

The Agricultural Economics concentration focuses on the theoretical and analytic tools of applied economics.

Farm and Ranch Management Concentration

The Farm and Ranch Management concentration builds skills in applied decision making that is required in production agriculture.

Agricultural Education     

Agricultural Education is defined as a systematic program of instruction for students desiring to learn and teach/educate the science, business, and technology of agriculture, food and environmental/natural resource systems. Agricultural education prepares students for successful careers and a lifetime of informed choices regarding agriculture. Agricultural Education is a major in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. CSU focuses on two delivery concentrations in Agricultural Education: Teacher Development for school-based agricultural education, and Agricultural Literacy. The program also offers a minor in Agricultural Literacy.

Teacher Development Concentration

Teacher development in school-based agricultural education is delivered in a three-part model: classroom, experiential learning, and leadership development.

Agricultural Literacy Concentration

Agricultural literacy is the synthesis, instruction, and communication of basic information about agriculture to the public.

Animal Science    

Students majoring in Animal Science (food animals) are provided with an industry-oriented, science-based education that prepares them for careers in animal agriculture or one of many industries associated with livestock production. The curriculum focuses on the study of food-producing animals and includes foundation courses in the sciences. Students also choose from specialized courses to enhance their technical, practical, and business skills in topics related to various aspects of production, marketing, and processing of livestock and their products.

Archaeology Concentration

The Archaeology concentration at CSU focuses on the Americas and includes prehistoric and historic archaeology.

Biological Anthropology

Biological anthropologists interact with both the physical and natural sciences, including biology, anatomy, genetics, chemistry, biometry, or endocrinology as well as the social sciences.

Cultural Anthropology Concentration

The Cultural Anthropology concentration focuses on contemporary experiences of culturally distinct communities encountering a rapidly globalizing political economy.

Apparel Design & Production Concentration

The Apparel Design and Production concentration focuses on the development of knowledge and skills necessary to engage in the design of textile and apparel goods. Students will complete coursework in aesthetics and design, illustration, pattern development, apparel construction techniques, and computer-aided design.

Merchandising Concentration

The Merchandising concentration prepares students for the assortment, planning, and sale of textile and apparel goods. Students will complete coursework in consumer behavior, merchandising processes, management, merchandise buying, retail store design, and the global industry.

Product Development Concentration

The Product Development concentration focuses on developing and innovating consumer products. Students will learn skills for product development, sourcing, market potential analysis, trend forecasting, line development, product line management, quality assurance, and supply chain management.

Art Education Concentration

The Art Education concentration embraces the artist-teacher concept, which allows students to develop a studio concentration while preparing to teach art at the K-12 level.

Art History Concentration

Art History provides a basic preparation in art history for graduate studies; careers in research and teaching at the college level; for positions in museums, libraries, or private collections; or for writing and criticism in the arts.

Integrated Visual Studies

Integrated Visual Studies provides an opportunity for students to integrate their knowledge from previous visual arts coursework, their study in another discipline, reflect on their experiences, and integrate their learning through an inter- or transdisciplinary lens. By participating across disciplines and thus identifying their roles in the larger professional and scholastic communities, students completing this B.A. concentration will be better prepared for their transition into careers or further study.

Drawing Concentration

The program builds on a foundation of basic skills toward advanced drawing as high art form. Students refine their abilities while exploring personal expression and ideas.

Electronic Art Concentration

Electronic Art uses digital mediums to create art. CSU’s program focuses on experimental video and animation techniques, net art, and using software as a medium for creative output.

Fibers Concentration

Our students become adept at creating and transforming fabrics and fiber structures. Coursework provides a foundation in weaving, surface design, and related textile techniques.

Graphic Design Concentration

Students learn through graphic design theory, history and professional practices to create artistic expressions in print and digital media, experimenting with treatments of typography and illustration.

Metalsmithing Concentration

Students explore traditional metalsmithing techniques, while developing their own artistic practice. Projects introduce and strengthen technical skills and explore historical and contemporary practice within the field.

Painting Concentration

Students gain an understanding of the visual language and technical aspects of painting. As proficiency in oils advances, they work with alternative tools, methods and surfaces.

Photo Image Making Concentration

Students learn the fundamentals of photographic practice, gain an understanding of its connections to the contemporary art world, and explore personal applications of the medium.

Pottery Concentration

The comprehensive curriculum exposes students to the range of contemporary ceramic art processes and concepts. Students develop critical, technical, and manual skills.

Printmaking Concentration

Students develop a technical background in a variety of media needed to cultivate a studio practice. Courses are taught workshop-style allowing artists to share diverse creative inquiry.

Sculpture Concentration

Students are encouraged to experiment and innovate while exploring content in the areas of object-making, installation, site-based work, performance, time-based art, and digital processes.

General Biochemistry Concentration

This concentration is designed to provide a broad education in biochemistry and can be tailored to meet the individual needs of specific students.

Health & Medical Sciences Concentration

This concentration augments the major with additional coursework in anatomy and physiology, the biochemistry of disease, and a medical internship.

Pre-Pharmacy Concentration

This concentration adds to the major with additional study in physiology, microbiology, immunology, and public speaking.

Biological Science Concentration

The curriculum for a Biological Science Concentration includes a two-semester introductory biology sequence, cell biology, developmental biology, ecology, evolution, and genetics.

Botany Concentration

The Botany concentration focuses on plants and plant-like organisms from microscopic algae to giant redwoods, and from fungi to flowers.

Accounting Concentration

Students gain an understanding of the theory and practice of financial accounting and reporting, managerial accounting, taxation, accounting information systems, and auditing.

Finance Concentration

Finance students study asset valuation, investments, and global finance, and select from three options for more in-depth study: corporate finance, investment analysis, or real estate finance.

Financial Planning Concentration

Students study retirement planning, employee benefits, income tax, estate planning, and risk management and are eligible to sit for the CFP® Exam upon graduation.

Human Resource Management Concentration

Students gain a comprehensive knowledge of human resource management including critical thinking, confidentiality, change management, communication, negotiation and conflict management, business acumen, interpersonal and organizational skills.

Information Systems

Students learn computer fundamentals and programming, systems analysis and design, networking, database design and implementation, project management, Web applications, and systems integration to solve business problems.

Marketing Concentration

Students gain a comprehensive knowledge of marketing activities such as conducting market research, developing new products, establishing pricing approaches, designing communications, and building customer relationships.

Organization and Innovation Management Concentration

This program prepares students to be effective managers of projects, budgets, teams, and processes in diverse, global, and highly competitive business environments.

Real Estate Concentration

Real estate professionals help find, provide, and manage physical spaces and coordinate across industries including architecture, construction, law, finance, marketing, property management, and urban development.

Supply Chain Management Concentration

Students learn practices such as product development, forecasting demand, managing production and operations, purchasing materials, order fulfillment, distribution, returns management, trade compliance, and customer service.

American Chemical Society (ACS) Certified Concentration

Students in this concentration will earn a B.S. that is certified by the American Chemical Society, which ensures a rigorous, broad study for students interested in a career in the sciences.

Non-ACS Certified Concentration

The Non-ACS Certified Concentration allows students to gain a strong foundation in chemistry while being able to focus upper-level courses in a particular area of interest.

Speech Teacher Licensure Concentration

Students interested in pursuing a teaching license through CSU may refer to the Center for Educator Preparation (CEP) and the College of Health and Human Sciences for general information.

Computer Science  

With Computer Science, you’ll do more than program. You’ll learn about the algorithms, logic, and math that are behind software systems and then build your own. You’ll join a collaborative community of passionate and talented problem solvers. You can take what you learn in class and develop software solutions for real-world problems using the latest techniques. Those skills are important no matter what you plan to do with your Computer Science degree. If you’re interested in pushing yourself academically and creatively to solve complex problems, Computer Science might be right for you.

Computer Science Concentration

The Computer Science Concentration is geared toward students who want a deep and foundational education in the field. Work dives into upper-level mathematics and sophisticated programming, preparing students for the many jobs in the industry or continued study in graduate school.

Human-Centered Computing Concentration

Human-Centered Computing Concentration is an interdisciplinary program in the department, which melds cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence, applying them to human-computer interaction, including interface design.

Computer Science Concentration

The computer science concentration in the data science major allows students to dive more deeply into the programming behind big data work.

Economics Concentration

The economics concentration in the data science major provides students with the technical and theoretical foundations in data science while also allowing for a focus on economics.

Mathematics Concentration

Data science runs on math. The mathematics concentration in the data science major offers additional upper-level coursework to give students deeper insights into the dynamic world of big data.

Statistics Concentration

The statistics concentration in the data science major provides a strong foundation of applied and theoretical statistical knowledge to empower successful data wranglers.

Electrical Engineering Concentration

The Electrical Engineering concentration covers a broad range of electrical engineering subdiscplines and allows a student to focus on their particular area of interest using technical electives.

Lasers & Optical Engineering Concentration

Lasers and Optical Engineering focuses on optics and waves, optical electronics, optical information processing, and communications.

Engineering Physics Concentration

Engineering Physics prepares students to work in high technology areas in which solid engineering training, combined with a broader background in physics is valuable.

Space Engineering Concentration

The Space Engineering concentration provides students with a broad background in aerospace and space engineering.

Teacher Education Concentration

The Engineering Science Teacher Education concentration prepares students to teach engineering design principles and concepts in junior and senior high school classrooms and laboratories.

Creative Writing Concentration

The Creative Writing concentration gives students the opportunity to strengthen their creative writing and reading skills and their imaginations.

English Education Concentration

The English Education concentration provides students with preparation for teaching in secondary schools.

Language Concentration

The Language concentration focuses on linguistics and TESL/TEFL.

Literature Concentration

The English Department offers a curriculum featuring critical study of literature, ancient through contemporary, in poetry, prose, and drama.

Rhetoric & Literacy Concentration

The Writing, Rhetoric and Literacy Concentration builds on departmental strengths in composition and nonfiction writing, as well as in technology-based writing and writing instruction.

Environmental & Natural Resource Economics    

The Environmental and Natural Resource Economics major prepares students to apply economic tools to evaluate the allocation and utilization of natural resources and the management of the natural environment. Economic analysis provides a strong basis to guide societal choices that directly and indirectly affect our environment. Economic theory provides a framework for understanding both environmental and natural resource issues, predicting the likely effects of government policies and regulations, and devising solutions to pressing economic and environmental problems.

Environmental Engineering   

Environmental engineers design solutions that prevent future pollution as well as correct existing pollution problems. The undergraduate curriculum in Environmental Engineering is based on a strong foundation in physical and biological sciences, mathematics, and engineering fundamentals. The All-University Core Curriculum provides a broad background in communication, liberal arts, humanities, and social sciences. Upper-division courses address engineering applications for prevention and control of air, water, and land pollution. Required courses that are specific to the Environmental Engineering major come from several engineering and science disciplines, including organic and environmental chemistry, microbiology, hydrology, statistics, environmental toxicology, and water treatment.

Environmental Horticulture     

Environmental horticulturists provide solutions necessary to achieve aesthetically pleasing, functional, and environmentally sound outdoor spaces. They also design and manage private and public landscapes, such as golf courses, botanical gardens, and parks. In addition, they may develop the entrepreneurial skills necessary to successfully operate a nursery, garden center, tree care, landscape design, and build or landscape management firm. Four concentrations are offered in the Environmental Horticulture major—Landscape Business, Landscape Design and Contracting, Nursery and Landscape Management, and Turf Management.

Landscape Business Concentration

Students develop skills in estimating project costs, plant selection and care, and business management techniques. Completing this concentration also earns a minor in Business Administration.

Landscape Design & Contracting Concentration

The Landscape Design and Contracting concentration prepares students for careers in the design-build profession for residential, commercial, and public properties.

Nursery & Landscape Management Concentration

Students gain training in landscape plant culture and use plus skills needed to start and manage a nursery, garden center, arboriculture, or landscape management firm.

Turf Management Concentration

Turf Management trains students for management opportunities ranging from sod production to the establishment and maintenance of private and public grounds.

Equine Science    

The Equine Science major prepares students to serve the many needs of a growing industry and focuses on providing students with an in-depth scientific knowledge of the varied functions of the horse and how to relate those scientific principles to the industry. Equine Science majors have the opportunity to develop a broad understanding of the horse as it relates to business, recreational, and production aspects of the industry. Currently, CSU has the most comprehensive equine program in the United States with major efforts in research, teaching, and public service.

Social Studies Teacher Licensure Concentration

The Social Studies Teacher Licensure concentration trains students to teach social studies at middle-school and high-school levels. Students in this program will have an added focus on understanding the histories and experiences of historically marginalized populations. The inclusion of ethnic studies and gender/sexuality studies courses significantly broadens the knowledge base of future social studies teachers.

Family & Consumer Sciences  

Family and Consumer Sciences prepares professionals to enhance the well-being of individuals and families and the communities in which they live. Because the program is interdepartmental and interdisciplinary, FCS students take a broad range of courses which provide them with the breadth of content they will utilize in their future careers. Our students are qualified to take on any FCS position with a base of knowledge in multiple content areas.

Family & Consumer Sciences Concentration

The Family and Consumer Sciences concentration provides students with a focus on consumer and family well-being, growth and development of family members, and the relationship of households to their environment. Students pursue careers in consumer program development, cooperative extension, product design, consumer information, entrepreneurship, government, community, and non-profit work, among others.

Family & Consumer Sciences Education Concentration

This certification program is for students who plan to teach Family and Consumer Sciences at the middle school, junior high, high school, or postsecondary levels. Students in this concentration will have a desire to teach and help people, the ability to communicate effectively, an understanding of the emotional and educational needs of students, and will enjoy being a role model.

Conservation Biology Concentration

The Conservation Biology concentration focuses on understanding the ecological processes necessary to conserve biological diversity with an emphasis on fish and wildlife species and their habitats.

Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences Concentration

Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences allow students to focus on a strong background in basic fishery ecology, management, and conservation, which includes an understanding of the linkages between land and water.

Wildlife Biology Concentration

Wildlife Biology focuses primarily on terrestrial vertebrates and their habitats, and builds a strong foundation in basic wildlife ecology, management, and conservation.

Forest Biology Concentration

Students who concentrate in Forest Biology will focus on the ecology of forests, the biology and interactions of the elements in forests, as well as economics and policy surrounding forested areas. Courses include physical sciences, rangeland ecogeography, and tree health management, along with writing and communications courses to aid students in the scientific examination and communication of forest biology. This concentration includes hands-on field courses in the summer at the CSU Mountain Campus.

Forest Fire Science Concentration

This concentration focuses on forest management from a fire-science perspective. Students will learn about the balance between fire as a natural ecological process and as a forest management tool. Courses include weather and climate ecology, soil science, tree health and timber harvesting, as well as several writing, policy, and speaking courses. This concentration includes hands-on field courses in the summer at the CSU Mountain Campus.

Forest Management Concentration

This concentration is for students interested in managing forestlands through careers with state and federal land-management agencies, private forestland owners, and conservation organizations. Courses include a mix of forest biology, integrated forest management, and the physical sciences. Students learn about forest productivity, economics, policy, conservation, and the latest in computer-based management tools. This concentration includes hands-on field courses in the summer at the CSU Mountain Campus.

Rangeland Conservation and Management Concentration

Rangeland Conservation and Management is similar to Rangeland and Forest Management, but with an emphasis on conservation of large, wide-open spaces–the world’s largest land-cover type. Students in this concentration will learn new conservation techniques to oversee rangelands that have multiple economic and social uses. Courses range from physical sciences to communications to policy to prepare students for the complex jobs in this field. This concentration includes hands-on field courses in the summer at the CSU Mountain Campus.

Rangeland and Forest Management Concentration

In Rangeland and Forest Management, students prepare for natural resource management careers in both the public and private sectors. With courses in the physical sciences, natural resource ecology and history, as well as writing, communications and policy courses, students will gain the versatility to work in land management and beyond. This concentration includes hands-on field courses in the summer at the CSU Mountain Campus.

Environmental Geology Concentration

Students develop expertise in surface and shallow-subsurface processes that shape the Earth and provide important soil and water resources for human and natural use.

Geology Concentration

A practical and field-oriented approach prepares students for employment opportunities as geologists in the energy and mining industries, government agencies, and consulting firms.

Geophysics Concentration

The Geophysics concentration combines a strong foundation in geology with additional depth in geophysics, physics, and mathematics, and in associated quantitative and computer skills.

Hydrogeology Concentration

The Hydrogeology concentration provides training in water resources and allied disciplines, while ensuring that students are well prepared for a variety of geological fields.

Health Promotion Concentration

Health promotion is the science and art of helping people evaluate their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health. The Health Promotion concentration prepares students for numerous careers in corporate wellness, health clubs, and hospital, university, military, and insurance health promotion settings.

Sports Medicine Concentration

The Sports Medicine concentration is a pre-professional program focusing on human movement in study of health and exercise science. The concentration is for students interested in careers in physical therapy, medical professions, or planning on graduate study in exercise physiology.

General History Concentration

The General History concentration is an excellent choice for students planning careers in history, government service, and other professional occupations requiring broad intellectual and practical skills.

Language Concentration

The Language concentration is an appropriate choice for students who plan to pursue graduate study or work in national security, diplomacy, or international business.

Social & Behavioral Sciences Concentration

The Social and Behavioral Sciences concentration is intended to facilitate the timely graduation of History majors who decide to transition from the Social Studies Teaching concentration to another concentration in their third or fourth year of study at CSU.

Social Studies Teaching Concentration

The Social Studies Teaching concentration is for students who plan to teach in middle school, junior high, or high school.

Horticulture    

Horticulture is the application of scientific principles in the growing, marketing, processing, and utilizing of fruits, vegetables, flower and foliage plants, trees, shrubs, and turf grasses. The major requires a strong grounding in botany, chemistry, and horticulture. There are six concentrations in the horticulture major: Floriculture, Horticultural Business Management, Horticultural Food Crops, Horticultural Science, Horticultural Therapy, and Viticulture and Enology.

Floriculture Concentration

Floriculture emphasizes greenhouse-grown flower crops. Students study propagation, production, utilization, and improvement of plants, and are prepared to grow quality greenhouse products.

Horticultural Business Management Concentration

The curriculum consists of a core of business, computer, and economics courses. In horticulture, students choose a special emphasis, or take an array of courses that may lead to greater job opportunities.

Horticultural Food Crops Concentration

Specific courses include fruit and vegetable production, irrigation practices, soil fertility, propagation, breeding, and related plant pest management courses. Students must choose either the Production or Seed Science option.

Horticultural Science Concentration

Horticultural Science graduates conduct research to discover new information about plant growth, development, and environmental response.

Horticultural Therapy Concentration

The Horticultural Therapy concentration combines horticulture courses with the study of therapy/human sciences, leading to careers in health care and human services.

Viticulture & Enology Concentration

The Viticulture and Enology concentration is designed to give students a background in food crop production with a focus on grapes and their processing into wine.

Early Childhood Professions Concentration

This concentration prepares students for careers in early childhood education as well as professional work with children in a variety of settings. It is an ideal choice for HDFS majors who plan to apply to the competitive Early Childhood Education Major during their sophomore year.

Human Development and Family Studies Concentration

This concentration is for students interested in the lifespan or more general focus in HDFS and are not seeking the specialized training offered in other concentrations. Students take courses in HDFS, psychology, and social work as well as selected courses from other disciplines for a well-rounded and robust education in human development and family studies.

Leadership and Entrepreneurial Professions Concentration

This concentration guides students preparing for leadership positions in organizations that promote the optimal development of individuals and families. This concentration includes coursework in finance, management, marketing, public policy, professional communication, and leadership.

Pre-Health Professions Concentration

The Pre-Health Professions Concentration prepares students for careers in healthcare and to obtain graduate training. Career opportunities include allied health practitioner, anesthesiologist assistant, child life specialist, chiropractor, doctor, music therapist, nurse, occupational therapist, optometrist, pharmacist, physical therapist, physician’s assistant, podiatrist, and speech and language pathologist.

Prevention and Intervention Sciences Concentration

This concentration is for students planning careers in the helping and human services professions such as counselors, educators, and social service providers. Students in this concentration will learn how to design and implement community-based prevention and intervention programs for youth, adults, and families.

Asian Studies Concentration

Students focus on Asian cultures and societies through a combination of history, religions, philosophy, literature, art, and political science, along with three years of language (Chinese, Japanese, or substitution with advisor approval) to help them interpret Asia’s present and past. Geographical study areas include China, Korea, Japan, the Indian Subcontinent, the Pacific Islands, and more.

European Studies Concentration

This interdisciplinary concentration combines European history, religion, philosophy, literature, art, and political science, along with three years of language (French, German, Russian, Spanish, or substitution with advisor approval) to give you the tools to understand and interpret the continent’s rich-and-intriguing past and present.

Latin American Studies Concentration

This concentration aims to trace the similarities and differences among the Latin American countries, recognizing the historical origins of current conditions. Courses in history, economics, literature, sociology, political science, anthropology, art, and three years of Spanish give students a powerful tool for understanding and interpreting Latin America’s past and present.

Middle East and North African Studies Concentration

This concentration emphasizes the interdisciplinary study of Middle East and North Africa cultures and societies. Courses include history, religion/philosophy, literature, art, and three years of Arabic language to give you the tools to understand and interpret this area’s past and present.

Landscape Architecture    

Studying Landscape Architecture at CSU is an adventure. Taking part in a challenging course of study, students prepare themselves for careers in a field whose enormous potential has only begun to be recognized. Landscape Architecture students study design as accomplished landscape architects see it: shaping spaces as well as planning and preserving them.

French Concentration

CSU French courses include language, linguistics, translation, and French and Francophone literatures and cultures. Opportunities to practice the language include French Club meetings and study abroad.

German Concentration

Students take courses in language, literature, linguistics, culture, and practical applications such as Business German or translation and host cultural events through the German Club.

Spanish Concentration

Courses include language, linguistics, translation, Latin American literatures and cultures, Peninsular literatures and cultures and Transatlantic studies. Students join the Spanish Club, El Centro, and study abroad.

Teaching Endorsement

Students in French, German or Spanish can obtain a teacher license through the School of Education in order to teach their language in Colorado public schools.

Actuarial Science Concentration

The Actuarial Science Concentration trains students to use mathematics, statistics, and economics to analyze and plan for uncertainties and risks. It qualifies students to take the first two credentialing actuarial examinations.

Applied Mathematics Concentration

The Applied Mathematics Concentration focuses on the application of mathematics in other disciplines. In particular, students receive training in numerical analysis, mathematical modeling, statistics, and computing.

Computational Mathematics Concentration

The Computational Mathematics Concentration emphasizes numerical methods, computational geometry, algebra, and symbolic processes and prepares students for graduate work in mathematics as well as for professional careers.

General Mathematics Concentration

This concentration is appropriate for students who want to combine mathematics with other academic areas, such as business, law, computer science, or statistics.

Mathematics Education Concentration

The Mathematics Education Concentration is designed to prepare students to teach mathematics through the high school level, including Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate courses.

Mathematics of Information Concentration

The Mathematics of Information Concentration prepares students for graduate study or an interdisciplinary career in information technology where mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering are interwoven.

Composition Concentration

The Composition concentration is designed to prepare the student to compose original music for a wide variety of venues including live concerts, music to accompany film, video, dance, and theatre.

Music Education Concentration

Music Education majors pursue an accredited curriculum that develops musical knowledge and skills, and prepares students to become accomplished music educators.

Music Therapy Concentration

The Music Therapy concentration is designed to prepare the student to work in a variety of health care settings, including hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation facilities, assisted living centers, and in special education settings.

Performance Concentration

The Bachelor of Music in Performance degree program features seven distinct options: jazz studies, orchestral instrument, organ, piano, piano pedagogy, string pedagogy, and voice.

Global Tourism Concentration

Course work focuses on business and tourism topics providing students with planning, management, marketing, financial, and entrepreneurship skills essential in the tourism industry.

Natural Resource Tourism Concentration

Through courses in tourism management, marketing and planning, natural resources, business, entrepreneurship, and social science, students develop skills for work in recreation and tourism enterprises.

Biology Education Concentration

Students complete science courses focused on biology, take professional classes in the School of Education, visit classrooms, and complete a semester of student teaching.

Chemistry Education Concentration

Students complete science courses focused on chemistry, take professional classes in the School of Education, visit classrooms, and complete a semester of student teaching.

Geology Education Concentration

Students complete science courses focused on geology, take professional classes in the School of Education, visit classrooms, and complete a semester of student teaching.

Physical Science Concentration

Students complete courses in calculus, chemistry, physics, and biological science and earn two minors selected from Biochemistry, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geology, Mathematics, Statistics, or Physics.

Physics Education Concentration

Students complete science courses focused on physics, take professional classes in the School of Education, visit classrooms, and complete a semester of student teaching.

Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience Concentration

The Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience concentration integrates an understanding of neuroanatomy with the mechanisms of sensation/perception and learning/memory, generally applied to human behavior.

Cell & Molecular Neuroscience Concentration

The Cell and Molecular Neuroscience Concentration integrates neuroanatomy with the cellular and molecular basis of nervous system function.

Dietetics & Nutrition Management Concentration

This concentration provides students with a broad background in clinical nutrition, health promotion, and food service management. The concentration is for students who would like to become practicing nutritionists or dietitians, and offers three options: dietetics, gerontology nutrition, and childhood nutrition.

Food Safety & Nutrition Concentration

This concentration blends a strong science base with courses in food science, food safety, food microbiology, and nutrition. The curriculum prepares students for the food industry or in government, such as quality assurance, product development, research, food inspection, food plant management, and consumer education.

Nutrition & Fitness Concentration

This concentration taps into the increasing interest of the public in nutrition, fitness, and wellness. Coursework provides a strong foundation in nutritional sciences and a broad array of exercise science and physical activity courses. The concentration prepares students for employment as nutrition and fitness counselors and personal lifestyle coaches.

Nutritional Sciences Concentration

Students gain a strong background in natural and biomedical sciences and nutrition, preparing them for graduate study, medical school, or a career in nutritional research. Supporting courses emphasize the physical and biological sciences and include the social sciences and humanities as well.

General Philosophy Concentration

Students take courses in ethics, logic, ancient Greek philosophy, world philosophies, metaphysics, Islam, feminist philosophies, Asian philosophy, philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.

Global Philosophies & Religions Concentration

Course work in this concentration includes ancient Greek philosophy, contemporary western and eastern religious thought, Islam, philosophies of East Asia, mysticism, and meaning and truth in religion.

Philosophy, Science & Technology Concentration

Course work specific to this concentration includes scientific thought, behavioral science philosophy, environmental ethics, and philosophical issues in professions such as business, engineering, animal science, and health care.

Applied Physics Concentration

The Applied Physics Concentration combines fundamental course work in physics with a selection of courses in a related discipline, such as optics, computers, chemistry, or medical physics.

Physics Concentration

The Physics Concentration provides a broad background in physics that serves as a base for later specialization, either in graduate school or on the job.

Addictions Counseling Concentration

The Addictions Counseling Concentration provides students with an undergraduate degree in psychology, while completing the required courses for becoming a certified addictions counselor (Level 1) in the state of Colorado.

Clinical/Counseling Psychology Concentration

The Clinical/Counseling Psychology Concentration prepares students to pursue graduate education and careers in clinical and counseling psychology.

General Psychology Concentration

Students who prefer a broad view of the field often choose the General Psychology Concentration.

Industrial/Organizational Concentration

The Industrial/Organizational Concentration prepares students to move into the workforce with a bachelor’s degree or to pursue graduate education in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.

Mind, Brain & Behavior Concentration

The Mind, Brain, and Behavior Concentration prepares students to be more competitive candidates for graduate programs in cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, and sensation and perception.

Criminology & Criminal Justice

The Criminology and Criminal Justice concentration supplements general sociological training with course work focused on the social aspects of crime and criminal justice.

Environmental Sociology Concentration

The Environmental Sociology concentration takes sociology’s long established disciplinary orientation to the world and applies it to the study of nature-society relations.

General Sociology Concentration

The General Sociology concentration is designed to provide students with a broad liberal arts education and a greater understanding and insight into the social systems and processes that bear upon everyday lives.

Soil & Crop Sciences    

Soil and Crop Sciences, the studies of field crops and soils, are the foundation sciences underlying the production and management of food, feed, fiber, and energy crops to meet human needs and to protect the environment. Students are taught the importance of learning soil and crop science principles in alleviating concerns of rapidly increasing world populations, the demand on land for food supplies, and the demand for environmental quality to enhance human comfort and wellbeing.

Agronomic Production Management Concentration

Agronomic Production Management focuses on methods to improve the nutritional value of crops and the quality of seed, as well as increase productivity.

Applied Information Technology Concentration

Students learn to make better decisions in crop, soil, and environmental management systems using technology.  Courses include computer science, data management, and business.

International Soil & Crop Sciences Concentration

Students interested in developing nations learn technical soil and crop science skills and knowledge about the political, social, and cultural aspects of those countries.

Plant Biotechnology, Genetics & Breeding Concentration

The Plant Biotechnology, Genetics, and Breeding concentration provides expertise in the fundamentals of plant molecular biology and their application to crop improvement.

Soil Ecology Concentration

This concentration emphasizes the study of soil organisms and their interactions with each other as well as the physical and chemical environment of soil.

Soil Restoration & Conservation Concentration

Soil Restoration and Conservation graduates provide technical assistance to farmers, ranchers, governments, and others concerned with the conservation of soil, water, and related natural resources.

Design & Technology Concentration

Students explore scenic design and stage management in class and work as technicians and assistants in live productions, advancing to leadership roles as designers or stage managers.

General Theatre Concentration

Through courses from each concentration and production experiences, students learn to think on their feet, adapting to a rapid-paced, high-energy career in the performing arts.

Performance Concentration

Student actors gain core physical and vocal training and a variety of approaches to the acting process in a program that values ensemble and collaboration.