Agricultural Biology 

Agricultural Biology can help you solve some of the most-critical problems in food and ecosystem sustainability facing the world today. You’ll gain hands-on experience in the lab and the field with plants, microbes, and insects that affect ecosystem health. You’ll learn how to put your love of science into action and will share this experience with a cohort of students who will become your teammates in strengthening the ecosystems that we all depend on for food, fiber, and ecosystem services.

Entomology Concentration

Learn in greater detail how insects affect and can be used to measure ecosystem health. Learn how to manage insects in the environment and about insect biotechnology.

Plant Pathology Concentration

Learn how microbes affect plant and ecosystem health, how they spread through the environment, and how to manage microbes on plants and in the soil with traditional methods and with biotechnology.

Weed Science Concentration

Learn how  weeds spread and are managed to help reduce losses, reduce fire danger in rangelands, and to conserve water resources. Learn how biotechnological discoveries are now used to manage weeds.

Agricultural Business     

You might be interested in the “boots on the ground” side of agriculture, but you also might be interested in policies that affect it. Maybe you want to work in the government to help support the businesses that grow/develop food. Maybe you’re adept at numbers and economics, ready to help ranchers and farmers stay on top of their operations. Whatever your passion, this major offers a wide variety of career paths along with the hands-on experiences you need to discover and achieve your dreams. This major is also available online.

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.

Food Systems Concentration

Explore food systems ranging from small-scale localized markets to traditional, commodity-based products to highly specialized, vertically coordinated supply chains. In this programs you’ll be prepared to contribute meaningfully to improving the value provided by our food systems.

Agricultural Education     

The Agricultural Education major is designed for students who want to learn and teach the science, business, and technology of agriculture, food, and environmental/natural resource systems. Students will develop and refine their communication skills, along with other attributes necessary to serve as educational leaders and managers. Agricultural Education prepares students for successful careers and a lifetime of informed choices within the field.

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    

You love knowing where your food comes from. You like to understand the science and business behind raising animals. This major focuses on the study of food-producing animals with foundation courses in the sciences. You’ll choose from specialized courses to enhance your technical, practical, and business skills, and have opportunities to participate in hands-on research and experience in the field with industry professionals and animals.

Archaeology Concentration

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

Biological Anthropology Concentration

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 and Production Concentration

Focuses on the development of knowledge and skills necessary to engage in the design of textile and apparel goods. In the program, you 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 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 interdisciplinary 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.

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.

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.

ASBMB 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. The ASBMB concentration is recommended for students considering teaching and/or research as a career. Students who graduate from this program can state on their resume that they graduated from an “ASBMB program.”

Data Science Concentration

This concentration is designed to provide a solid background in biochemistry, molecular genetics and cell biology, augmented with computer science, mathematics and statistics. The data science concentration is recommended for students interested in a career in life science data analysis. Students who graduate with this concentration obtain the skills necessary for organizing, analyzing and communicating the meaning of massive data sets.

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.

Anatomy and Physiology Concentration

Students will be prepared for a wide variety of careers that have a basis in cellular and molecular biology and human/animal anatomy and physiology. In addition to enrolling in required courses, students will have opportunities to engage in elective courses and laboratory research in specialty areas of endocrinology, pharmacology, pathophysiology, neurophysiology, reproductive physiology, and cardiopulmonary physiology.

Environmental Public Health Concentration

Students will be prepared for employment by public-sector environmental agencies, private industry, and academic institutions, as well as graduate study in medicine, veterinary medicine, and related biomedical and health fields.

Microbiology and Infectious Disease Concentration

Students will experience wide variety of opportunities that have a basis in cellular/molecular biology and infectious disease. Students will have opportunities to engage in elective courses and laboratory research in specialty areas of bacteriology, immunology, mycobacterial diseases, prion biology, vector borne infectious disease, and virology

Accounting Concentration

Students gain an understanding of the theory and practice of financial accounting and reporting, managerial accounting, taxation, accounting information systems, and auditing. This program includes an accelerated option for students to graduate on a faster schedule. This program also is available in a hybrid format (courses taken both online and on campus in Castle Rock, Colorado) for transfer students only; special requirements apply. This is also offered as an accelerated program.

Computer 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. This program includes an accelerated option for students to graduate on a faster schedule.

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. This program includes an accelerated option for students to graduate on a faster schedule..

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. This program includes an accelerated option for students to graduate on a faster schedule.

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.

International Business Concentration

International Business is offered only as a second concentration – in addition to your primary Business Administration concentration – and will prepare you for a meaningful career with organizations that operate beyond national borders.

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. This program includes an accelerated option for students to graduate on a faster schedule.

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. This program includes an accelerated option for students to graduate on a faster schedule.

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. This program includes an accelerated option for students to graduate on a faster schedule.

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.

Environmental Chemistry

This concentration focuses on teaching the interconnected chemical processes — both naturally occurring and human caused —that shape the environment. You’ll develop and apply analytical skills to measure environmental chemical species and quantify their role in environmental chemistry and learn to communicate the results in policy decisions for questions involving the air, food, soil, and water.

Forensic Chemistry

This concentration focuses on the design of chemical experiments to comprehensively investigate forensic samples.

Health Sciences

This concentration will teach you how to identify the anatomical features of humans or domestic animals and define their physiological roles, along with articulating the role chemistry plays in disease and its treatment.

Sustainable Chemistry

In sustainable chemistry, you’ll explore the unintended consequences associated with the synthesis of compounds ranging from life-enhancing medicines to the materials of modern society. You’ll learn to articulate the thought process used to develop safer, more energy- and material-efficient processes, including the recovery and conversion of waste to raw material.

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.

Aerospace Systems Concentration

In aerospace, you’ll focus on key computer engineering principles in the areas of computer systems, programming, deep-space communications, robotics, flight avionics, and more, enabling you to solve complex engineering problems, such as improved safety-critical hardware design, real-time software programming, satellite communications, and remote sensing methods. Computer engineering students concentrating in aerospace will experience, first hand, the necessity of their major in supporing humanity’s ascent to the stars.

Embedded and IoT Systems

This concentration takes a bird’s-eye view of computer engineering to help students understand how electronic devices, software, and networks function together to enable end-to-end solutions. Coursework focuses on applications of key computer engineering principles in the areas of computer architecture, embedded systems, internet-of-things (IoT), machine learning, computer security, software algorithms, and more.

Networks and Data Concentration

Combining topics from electrical engineering, computer science, and mathematics, this concentration will teach you how to optimize and bolster network systems that process the ever-growing volume of data we produce through our high-tech gadgets and applications. You will work on complex engineering problems, such as emerging 5G/6G networks, deep-space communication, Internet of Things, and social networks.

VLSI and Integrated Circuits Concentration

Very large-scale integration, or VLSI, is the process used to design and create computer chips that enable everything from smart watches to virtual reality applications. This concentration offers students a foundation in computer engineering with specialized training in the VLSI and microelectronics disciplines. VLSI focuses on developing advanced electronic circuits and systems to compute massive amounts of data and turn it into meaningful information.

Computer Science  

In this major, you’ll do more than program. You’ll learn about the algorithms, logic, and math behind software systems and then build your own. You’ll learn to develop software solutions for real-world problems using the latest techniques. Then you’ll learn how to enable software and computers to learn and adapt on their own. You’ll leave with a well-rounded tech background that can take you into almost any field. This major is also available online.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Concentration

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are about creating intelligent systems – systems that perceive and respond to the world around them. AI and ML systems are everywhere, in our cars and smartphones, and businesses of all sizes are investing in these areas. This concentration combines a rigorous computer science degree with coursework in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data.

General Computer Science Concentration

This is a broad computer science program that prepares students for any position in the field. It is the most flexible of the concentrations, allowing you to take with a minor of your choice and/or choose a research area to focus on that topic in your upper-level classes.

Computer Science Education

This concentration will allow you to gain proficiency in software design and development, computing systems, and algorithmic analysis. You’ll work effectively in groups to develop computational solutions to complex problems, and learn to communicate ideas effectively, both generally and specifically, with regard to technology and computing. You’ll learn strong pedagogical practices related to education and computational thinking, and develop lesson plans related to computer science with artifact generation and statistical analysis of artifacts and student performance.

Software Engineering Concentration

Software engineering involves designing, implementing, and maintaining computer programs. Developing modern software systems requires more than programming skills and core computer science concepts. It requires software engineering skills, which are in high demand. The Software Engineering concentration focuses on the concepts, techniques, and tools necessary for software analysis, design, testing, maintenance, and teamwork.

Computing Systems Concentration

Computing systems are integrated devices that input, output, process, and store data and information. They can range from simple sensors and hardware components to phones, laptops, desktops, and entire data centers. Students in this concentration will learn how to design and assess computer systems from a holistic perspective that encompasses big data, algorithms, networking, design, and artificial intelligence/machine learning.

Networks and Security Concentration

Networks connect computers and other devices so they can share information. The Networks and Security concentration involves designing, building, and maintaining networks and protecting them from cyber attacks. This concentration teaches computer networking, systems security (including the latest trends and technologies in cyber-security), ethical hacking, operating systems, databases, and software. Students will also have coursework in networking, systems security (including the latest in cyber security), ethical hacking, operating systems, databases, and software engineering.

Human-Centered Computing Concentration

Human-centered computing focuses on developing tools that improve the relationship between people and technology so people can concentrate on the problem rather than the technology. This concentration will teach you techniques for human-computer interaction using gestures, mobile devices, large surfaces, and virtual environments. Classes span multiple disciplines, including computer vision, machine learning, design, and psychology.

Computer Science Concentration

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

Economics Concentration

The economics concentration 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 offers additional upper-level coursework to give students deeper insights into the dynamic world of big data.

Neuroscience Concentration

The neuroscience concentration provides students with the ability to synthesize anatomical, biochemical, physiological, and psychological information that is contained within large data sets to develop hypotheses of nervous system development, structure, function, and regulation.

Statistics Concentration

The statistics concentration 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 subdisciplines 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.

Aerospace Concentration

This concentration offers specialized training in the aerospace discipline, focusing on applications of key electrical engineering principles in the areas of deep-space communications, robotics, embedded systems, flight avionics, and more. These courses will enable and encourage students to solve complex engineering problems in aerospace such as improved satellite communications, electric propulsion technologies, and remote-sensing methods.

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.

Linguistics Concentration

The Linguistics 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 and Natural Resource Economics    

This major prepares you to apply economic tools to evaluate natural resources and the management of our environment. By studying economic theory, you’ll gain an understanding of environmental issues and learn how to predict effects of government policies. You’ll work to explore solutions to pressing economic and environmental problems. In contrast to other natural resource courses, this major focuses on weighing the private and public implications of choices that we make on local and global scales. This major is also available online.

Environmental Engineering   

Environmental engineers design solutions that prevent future pollution as well as correct existing pollution problems. In the major, you’ll gain a foundation in natural sciences, mathematics, biological sciences, and engineering fundamentals, and progress to engineering applications in air, water, land pollution, and environmental toxicology. Opportunities to focus in areas such as agricultural and environmental measurements, rate-controlled separations, basic hydrology, environmental law, and environmental ethics mean you’ll be even more prepared to enter the workforce after graduation.

Environmental Horticulture     

When you major in Environmental Horticulture, you’ll be moved by the earth’s rhythms and seasons much more than the 9-5. Environmental horticulturists create aesthetically pleasing, functional, and environmentally sound outdoor spaces. They design landscapes like golf courses, botanical gardens, and parks, and manage landscape design firms. In this major, you’ll round out your passion for plants with science- and business-based courses, and choose a concentration to focus on.

Landscape Business Concentration

This concentration prepares individuals for careers in business management, production, operations, account management, entrepreneurship, landscape management and project management opportunities in the green industry.

Landscape Design and Contracting Concentration

This concentration prepares students for careers in the design-build profession for residential, commercial, and public properties.

Nursery and 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    

Equine Science majors have the opportunity to develop a broad understanding of horses in the business, recreational, and production aspects of the horse industry. Currently, CSU has the most-comprehensive equine program in the United States with major efforts in research, teaching, and public service. In the major, you’ll take foundation courses in the areas of equine reproduction, genetics, and nutrition and disease management, as well as over 20 hands-on courses that cover all aspects of the industry.

Community Organizing and Institutional Change

In this program, you’ll learn the history and methods diverse communities have used to seek civil rights. With a focus on recognizing, listening, respectfully engaging, and effectively organizing community efforts to create a more-equitable society, students will be able to help guide organizations and institutions. Through courses focused on policy, organizing, and institutional change, students will recognize and respond to contemporary issues.

Global Race, Power, and Resistance

This program focuses on transnationalism, diaspora, and migration processes highlighting the impacts of colonialism, racial and ethnic ideologies, and imperialism on a global scale. You’ll be prepared for positions in federal, state, and local government, working in public policy, NGOs (Non-Government Organizations) and international organizations like the United Nations, immigration reform and policy.

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 and Consumer Sciences  

This major prepares professionals to enhance the well-being of people and the communities they live in. Because the program is interdepartmental and interdisciplinary, you’ll take a broad range of courses to provide you with the breadth of content you’ll use in your future career. Through coursework and field experience, you’ll gain skills in observation, needs assessment, program development and implementation, and social policy information as these relate to diverse populations.

Family and Consumer Sciences Interdisciplinary Concentration

This 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 nonprofit work, among others.

Family and 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.

Digital and Public History Concentration

Discover and use emerging digital research tools and learn how historians inform and engage the public in museums, documentaries, podcasts, and more. This concentration requires an internship.

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    

You know there’s something miraculous about plants, growing, and being a part of it all. The Horticulture major nourishes that insight, and helps you transform your passion into a thriving career. You’ll use scientific principles in the growing, marketing and utilizing of fruits, vegetables, flowers, trees, and grasses. You’ll gain a strong grounding in botany and chemistry, and come out with skills to surround your life with all things green. This major is also available online.

Controlled-Environment Horticulture Concentration

Controlled-environment agriculture is a technology-based approach to crop production that focuses on optimizing an environment within a protected structure to facilitate desired plant growth and development. In this concentration, you will gain hands-on experience with the management of controlled-environment systems for the production and improvement of both floriculture and food crops.

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.

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 Advocacy Concentration

Students in this concentration are prepared to work with diverse populations across a spectrum of human services positions in healthcare, education, mental health, government, business; as well as for a career pathway as directors, managers, or owners within these fields. This concentration includes coursework in advocacy and social justice as well as opportunities to study finance, management, marketing, public policy, professional communication, and leadership.

Pre-Health Professions Concentration

This concentration prepares students for careers in healthcare and to obtain graduate training. Career opportunities include 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.

Global Studies Concentration

This concentration familiarizes students with diverse cultures and peoples and with a broad, connective approach to contemporary global issues. It includes a choice of courses across a wide range of disciplines, emphasizing international and global history, politics, language and cultures, economics, and environmental studies.

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 is an adventure. Taking part in a challenging course of study, you’ll prepare 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. Throughout the program you’ll explore the relationship between design, nature, and society, as well as the impact of humans on the environment, and come out ready for a career with an office under the open skies.

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.

Spanish for the Professions

This concentration provides students with a foundation in Spanish for professional contexts, such as animal care, business, health care, and translation and interpreting. This concentration includes an accelerated option for students to graduate on a faster schedule.

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.

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.

Advanced Manufacturing

Advanced Manufacturing explores manufacturing techniques, automation, simulation, and processing of materials.

Aerospace Engineering Concentration

Study the design, manufacturing, and operating techniques of machines capable of air flight. Our government research laboratory and faculty experienced the aerospace industry guide students through the subjects of fluid mechanics, chemical propulsion, stability and control, and structures for aircraft and rockets that fly within and above Earth’s atmosphere.

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 and 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 and Molecular Neuroscience Concentration

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

Dietetics and 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 and 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.

Food Systems Concentration

This concentration provides students with the background necessary for understanding the complex challenges associated with global food systems and the broad range of impacts on public health and the environment.

Nutrition and 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 and Religions Concentration

Coursework 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, and Technology Concentration

Coursework 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.

General Physics Concentration

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

Environmental Politics and Policy

This concentration is designed to help students develop the knowledge and skills to analyze the connections between politics and the natural world, and pursue careers in environmental politics and policy making. Students will learn about how political forces contribute to environmental degradation, the process for developing environmental policies, strategies to assess the strengths and weaknesses of different policy approaches, and how political forces can be harnessed to develop effective responses to problems such as climate change, water and air pollution, food security, and energy provision.

Global Politics and Policy

Students will develop the knowledge and skills to analyze political relationships between and within countries and to pursue careers in international affairs. They’ll learn about different systems of government, state-and-society relations in various parts of the world, the ways that public and private actors interact, as well as the causes of and responses to domestic and international conflict.

U.S. Government, Law, and Policy

This concentration is designed to prepare students to become future leaders in the public sector. Coursework will educate students about the political processes and the legal environment of all levels of American government, as well as the processes of policy making and the administrative apparatus used to implement public policy.

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 and Behavior Concentration

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

Criminology and 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 and Crop Sciences    

In this major, you’ll focus on field crops and soils, learning the foundation sciences underlying the production and management of food, feed, and energy crops to meet human needs and protect the environment. Special emphasis is placed on production efficiency and the conservation of soil, energy, plants, and water. You’ll get broad-based coverage of natural and social sciences, communication skills, and opportunities to explore interests and leadership potential.

Plant Biotechnology Concentration

Crop improvement, whether through breeding or genetic engineering, is one of the most-important drivers of agricultural innovation. Students in this concentration gain a firm foundation in fundamental principles of genetics and crop breeding and explore new, rapidly evolving technologies that enable us to develop crop varieties that are more-nutritious, resilient to climate change, and disease resistant.

Soil Science and Environmental Solutions

This concentration applies fundamental principles and techniques in soil science to solving complex, real-world environmental sustainability challenges. Students learn how the interactions of plants, the microbiome, and the soil food web with the soil’s physical and chemical environment support life on earth, improve water quality, and impact our climate.

Sustainable Agricultural Management

Students gain a solid foundation of agronomic principles and practices to achieve economic and environmental sustainability while helping design and development the agroecosystems of tomorrow. Students build practical knowledge of farming systems and utilize advanced technologies to drive decision making in cropping system management, while maintaining or improving soil health.

Costume Design and Technology Concentration

This concentration helps student develop their unique artistic visions as costume, makeup, and hair designers and technicians. It offers students practice in the research, technical, and conceptual skills necessary to design and build costumes for the stage, dance, or film, including vocabulary and best practices, the universal language of clothes, primary research, and diverse aesthetic styles to build characters.

Lighting Design and Technology Concentration

Students take Drawing for Theatre, Computer-Assisted Drafting for Theatre, two levels of lighting design courses, Projection Design, Design Portfolio and Professional Prep, and are required to explore other fields of design (such as projection design, sound design, costume design, or set design) to better understand the collaborative effort of creating a world onstage.

Musical Theatre Concentration

Students practice singing, dancing, and acting, along with learning musical-theatre history, theory, and repertoire. Students train to analyze and perform contemporary and classical scripts as actors, to effectively deliver highly physical staging or dance, and to practice healthy habits that support a lifetime of vocal production for the stage, screen, and/or recording.

Performance Concentration

This concentration offers extensive opportunity in both the study and practice of theatrical performance. The concentration features foundational to advanced courses in multiple acting styles, approaches to acting, and entry points for the experience and vocabulary of performance.

Projection Design and Technology Concentration

Students take Drawing for Theatre, Computer Assisted Drafting for Theatre, two levels of projection design courses, Projection Design, Design Portfolio and Professional Prep, and are required to explore other fields of design (such as sound design, lighting design, costume design, or set design) to better understand the collaborative effort of creating a world onstage.

Set Design Concentration

Students explore creative concepts of set design for theatre, musicals, opera, dance, and industry, as well as production design and art direction for film and television while reinforcing their training through practical application in main-stage productions of music, theatre, and dance.

Sound Design and Technology Concentration

Students take Drawing for Theatre, Computer-Assisted Drafting for Theatre, two levels of Sound Design courses, Projection Design, Design Portfolio & Professional Prep, and are required to explore other fields of design (such as Projection Design, Lighting Design, Costume Design or Set Design) to better understand the collaborative effort of creating a world onstage.

Watershed Data Concentration

This concentration focuses on fusing data science skills and techniques with deep knowledge of the physical, chemical, social, and biological factors that affect the quantity and quality of water as it moves through ecosystems. Students will engage in field, laboratory, and classroom research in both watershed and data science courses, and graduate with a Minor in Applied Data Science in addition to their major.

Watershed Science Concentration

This concentration focuses on the physical, chemical, social, and biological factors that affect the quantity, quality, and flux of water through engagement in the field, laboratory, and classroom. Students begin their program with core courses that build a strong foundation in the physical and natural sciences in preparation for upper-division coursework in land use and snow hydrology, land use and water quality, and watershed problem analysis.

Watershed Sustainability Concentration

Students will focus on how human systems interact with the physical, chemical, and biological processes in watersheds. They will combine foundational science courses with background in sociology and economics, in preparation for upper division courses on water resources, water economics, and sustainability.