Programs of Study
What is the Accounting Minor?
This minor provides foundational accounting skills for careers requiring bookkeeping and knowledge of organizational processes in the field. The program prepares graduates to help organizations manage budgets, utilize accounting information systems, and gain knowledge in taxation.
Why study Accounting at UNH College of Professional Studies?
This minor provides basic understanding of principles and practices in the accounting field. This is especially relevant with understanding financial statements, financial ratios, and and bookkeeping practices.
What is Addictions Studies?
This minor introduces students to the issues associated with supporting people involved with addictive behaviors. Students will study the foundational principles of providing counseling services to individuals with addiction issues as well as the disease model and characteristic needs of this population.
Why study Addictions Studies at UNH College of Professional Studies?
If seeking careers in the addiction field, this minor can lead to a role in human services. A minor in addictions studies can also expand on healthcare roles that would include working with this…
What is Adult Learning and Development?
This minor provides knowledge to maximize adult learning in training, consulting, or instructional environments. Students will develop an understanding of the unique qualities, motivations, and capabilities of the adult student.
Why study Adult Learning and Development at UNH College of Professional Studies?
This program provides a foundation for serving as a coach, instructor, or trainer in various industries. Courses focus on adult learning theory and the various motivations of adult learners.
What is Applied Psychology?
This minor is designed to provide the student with the foundational education in applied psychology, including the scientific nature of psychological knowledge and how enhanced knowledge of psychological principles can be applied in various real-world settings.
Why study Applied Psychology at UNH College of Professional Studies?
The Minor in Applied Psychology can serve as a supplemental course of study to your major, providing you with a solid foundation in understanding human behavior and how that knowledge can be applied to your life and your career.
What is Business and Strategic Communication?
The minor in Business and Strategic Communication focuses specifically on communication that is external to businesses and organizations. Extensive consideration is given to an organization’s image: how to define it, promote it, enhance it, and manage it in times of crisis. However, because a solid external image is predicated upon sound internal structure and communication, the "business communication" component of this minor encompasses topics such as: managerial communication, presentations, and leadership.
Why study Business and…
What is the Computer Information Technology Minor?
This minor enables managers at any level to understand and use information technology as a resource to improve an organization’s efficiency.
Why study Computer Information Technology at UNH College of Professional Studies?
Students in this minor will have the opportunity to apply technological skills to advance efficiencies and ask critical questions about information and research within the field of information technology.
What is Counseling Foundations?
This minor enables students to focus on issues and methods associated with providing counseling to individuals in distress. Students will study the personal and situational factors that can cause individuals to seek counseling. Students will also gain knowledge of the methods associated with communicating with individuals in distress to help them to solve problems.
Why study Counseling Foundations at UNH College of Professional Studies?
The Minor in Counseling Foundations can serve as a supplemental course of study to your major, providing you with a solid…
What is Court Advocacy?
This minor explores the issues associated with supporting crime victims as they navigate the criminal justice system. Students will study criminal behavior, the criminal justice system, and the issues of both child and adult victims of crime.
Why study Court Advocacy at UNH College of Professional Studies?
The Minor in Court Advocacy can serve as a supplemental course of study to your major, providing you with a solid foundation in understanding how to support crime victims within the criminal justice system.
What is Criminal Justice?
This minor explores the roles of law enforcement, corrections, and criminals within the US criminal justice system. Students will gain a foundational understanding of the theories and practices of individuals in each aspect of the criminal justice system.
Why study Criminal Justice at UNH College of Professional Studies?
The Minor in Criminal Justice can serve as a supplemental course of study to your major, providing you with a solid foundation in understanding criminology, the criminal justice system, and law enforcement.
What is the Data Analytics Minor?
The minor in data analytics addresses the knowledge, skills, and ability to answer data-driven questions within a student's discipline or industry.
Why study Data Analytics At UNH College of Professional Studies?
Students will have the opportunity to prepare data for analysis, draw conclusions based on data, and present the results of data analysis.
What is the Digital Marketing Minor?
The focus of marketing revolves around the consumer and a minor in digital marketing will allow the student to identify consumers, evaluate consumer interest, and meet consumer needs and wants through marketing research, consumer behaviors, and customer relations on a local, national, and global level.
Why study Digital Marketing at UNH College of Professional Studies?
Students with a minor in marketing can complement their major areas of study with essential skills that provide students with insight into the modern external functional area of business.
What is Early Childhood Education?
The Early Childhood Education minor is designed for individuals seeking to supplement non-education degrees with courses that may be applied towards DHHS credentialing in early childhood. Courses in this minor model curriculum standards set forth by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
Why study Early Childhood Education at UNH COllege of Professional Studies?
This program provides a foundation for working with young children in childcare or early school experiences.
What is the Economic Science Minor?
The minor in economic science provides a foundation in microeconomics and macroeconomics from a variety of lenses. Courses assess the ways in which economics are affected by technology, social, environmental and institutional capital, globalization and psychology.
Why study Economic Science at UNH College of Professional Studies?
The minor in economics is valuable across many fields. Those who study economics may find career opportunities in business and government such as management consulting, business analysis, market research, and others.
What is Education Advocacy?
This minor introduces students to the issues associated with supporting individuals who have specific instructional needs. Students will investigate laws, mechanisms of communication, and specific accommodations associated with education of individuals with needs.
Why study Education Advocacy at UNH College of Professional Studies?
The Minor in Education Advocacy can serve as a supplemental course of study to your major, providing you with a solid foundation in understanding and supporting individuals with specific instructional needs within the educational system…
What is Emergency Management Strategy and Planning?
This minor enables students to develop knowledge and skills related to emergency management strategy and policy development. It is a comprehensive study of the disaster management cycle, including emergency preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery. The world is becoming a crowded place with a dense population and increasingly frequent natural and human-made hazards. Thus, there is a high demand for risk reduction and educated, prepared public leadership. Students who complete a minor in emergency management strategy and planning…
What is the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Minor?
The minor in entrepreneurship and innovation is designed to provide the student the opportunity to develop entrepreneurship knowledge, skills, and ability applicable to a wide range of organizational settings, including startup business, new ventures, and social ventures including not- for-profit organizations.
Why study Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UNH College of Professional Studies?
The minor in entrepreneurship is suitable for those who might want to have their own business or work in an entrepreneurial environment.
What is Family Studies?
This minor explores evolving family structures in contemporary American society.
Why study Family Studies at UNH College of Professional Studies?
The Minor in Family Studies can serve as a supplemental course of study to your major, providing you with a solid foundation in understanding complex family structures in today's society.
What is the Finance Minor?
This minor provides foundational skills for careers related to finance. It can also prepare the student to be a member of the financial management team in small or mid-sized enterprises or for self- employment.
Why study Finance at UNH College of Professional Studies?
Students in this minor will have the opportunity to demonstrate working knowledge of essentials in the field of finance as well as ask critical questions about information and research within the field of study.
What is the Global Business Minor?
The minor in Global Business is designed to provide the student with a broad exposure to the global areas of business and the interesting challenges and opportunities it provides. These areas include at a minimum culture, financial forces, international monetary, economics, socioeconomic forces, management, marketing internationally, political forces, and global innovation.
Why study Global Business at UNH College of Professional Studies?
The minor in global business is suitable for those who might want to have their own business, conduct business in a…
What is Graphic Design?
The minor in Graphic Design enables students to develop and enhance creative and critical thinking in the field of graphic design. Students apply technical skills to transform ideas into a variety of media and utilize visual communication to meet specific needs. The Graphic Design minor complements a variety of disciplines, as it pairs well with professional communication, marketing, and digital media.
Why study Graphic Design at UNH College of Professional Studies?
The Graphic Design minor is well-suited to students who have a passion for skills in artistry, design,…
What is Health Care Management?
This minor explores significant areas of the dynamic and complex health care industry.
Why study Health Care Management at UNH College of Professional Studies?
This minor provides a solid foundation for health care managers and staff, human resource professionals, and others whose work responsibilities intersect with this growing industry.
What is Historical Studies?
The minor in historical studies is designed to provide an overview of world history, including the study of U.S. history in greater depth. The courses provide students with a foundation in historical research, evaluation of sources, the diversity of human experience, and the opportunity to explore modern society from the context of the past.
Why study Historical Studies at UNH College of Professional Studies?
A minor in historical studies can complement your major, providing you the opportunity to think creatively about the past and better understand the present.…
What is the Hotel, Restaurant, and Travel Minor?
Students in the Hotel, Restaurant, and Travel minor will explore the theories, principles, and trends of successful hospitality operations in a constantly changing environment. Courses are designed to employ experiential and immersive teaching techniques to assist students in learning how to diagnose and address the diverse range of issues associated with the hospitality industry.
Why study Hotel, Restaurant, and Travel at UNH College of Professional Studies?
This minor focuses on helping students to learn how to develop practical leadership…
What is Human Resources Management?
This minor develops skills for the varied and significant roles that the human resources professional fills in an organization. The minor focuses on developing leadership and managerial skills for the HR professional as an agent of organizational change in the workplace.
Why study Human Resources management at UNH College of Professional Studies?
A minor in human resource management can supplement any relevant field in gaining an understanding in leading people, employment laws, and aligning people with organizational strategies.
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What is Human Services?
This minor enables a student to examine the organization and delivery of a wide range of human services and professions. Focus areas include ethical practice, intervention approaches, and skill development and theory that students can apply in support roles in a variety of social service and health care agencies.
Why study Human Services at UNH College of Professional Studies?
A minor in human services can support many different fields that include working with people in a helping capacity.
What is Interpersonal and Organizational Communication?
The minor in Interpersonal and Organizational Communication focuses specifically on communication that is internal to organizations. You will explore theories of organizational communication, as well as key internal responsibilities and challenges that all organizations face, including: team dynamics, diversity, conflict, privacy, identifying and inspiring talent, and defining and achieving goals, among others. This minor is interdisciplinary in that the topics covered traverse many areas of study.
Why study Interpersonal and…
What is the Leadership, Change, and Social Responsibility Minor?
Leadership is the process of motivating people to achieve project goals. Leadership varies from management, and not all leaders are managers. Courses within this minor allow students to define leadership, explore the leadership qualities within one’s self and others, investigate the role of leadership in organizations, and assess leadership theories.
Why study Leadership, Change, and Social Responsibility at UNH College of Professional Studies?
Within the minor, students will survey and discuss multiple methodologies used to…
What is Management?
This minor provides a foundation in management theory and practice for those interested in public or private sector management. Students may choose electives that complement their career interests and primary area of study.
Why study Management at UNH College of Professional Studies?
A minor in management will provide an overview of management theory and practices. Student will gain insights on the role of managers and the skills needed to lead teams and organizations. A minor in management can supplement any management or leadership role in any industry.
What is the Nonprofit Management Minor?
The minor in nonprofit management provides a comprehensive view of not-for-profit organizations.
Why study Nonprofit Management at UNH College of Professional Studies?
The topics discussed in the minor include revenue streams, development, and fundraising.
What is the Operations, Supply Chain, and Logistics Minor?
This minor explores how the fast and efficient flow of products in from suppliers and out to customers ensures growth in revenue that would otherwise be unobtainable.
Why study Operations, Supply Chain, and Logistics at UNH College of Professional Studies?
This minor will provide an overview of operations management, supply chain, logistics, production, quality, project management, transportation, and technology.
What is the Organization and Business Administration Minor?
The minor in organization and business administration is designed to provide the student with content and additional in-depth education in marketing, management, accounting, information systems, legal, and ethical issues in business.
Why study Organization and Business Administration At UNH College of Professional Studies?
The minor in business administration is designed to provide the student with content and additional in-depth education in marketing, management, accounting, information systems, legal, and ethical issues in…
What is Organizational Psychology?
This minor explores the crossover of psychology and business by studying the principles of individual, group, and organizational behavior and applying this knowledge to the solutions for problems at work. Principles include organizational culture, stress and conflict in the workplace, and maintaining psychological health within the context of work and organizations.
Why study Organizational Psychology at UNH College of Professional Studies?
The Minor in Organizational Psychology can serve as a supplemental course of study to your major, providing you with a…
What is the Professional Sales Minor?
This minor provides foundational skills for careers related to professional sales. Sales is a fundamental skill for individuals, products and businesses. It can also prepare students to be a member of a management team in small, medium or large enterprises or for self-employment.
Why study Professional Sales at UNH College of Professional Studies?
This minor can also prepare students to be a member of a management team in small, medium or large enterprises or for self-employment.
What is Public Administration and Policy?
The minor in Public Administration and Policy offers students the appropriate depth and breadth of public administration, leadership, and public policy curriculum.
Why study Public Administration and Policy at UNH College of Professional Studies?
A minor in Public Administration can complement your major field of study by providing you with a solid foundation in the principles and practices of public governance. Whether you're majoring in a social science, business, law, or any other field, a minor in Public Administration can enhance your…
What is Visual Communication and Social Media?
The minor in Visual Communication and Social Media enables students to refine their skills in creating, analyzing, and deploying visual communication. You will be challenged to think critically about the capacity for visual communication to transcend written and verbal communication, while carefully considering how to effectively align the mode of communication with message and audience. Particular emphasis is given to the intersection of visual communication with the fields of marketing and advertising.
Why study Visual Communication and…
What is Wellness and Prevention?
This minor provides students with key concepts that impact mental and physical well-being. Students will study foundations for health and explore practices to prevent illness and disease. Obstacles and opportunities for health behavior change are addressed.
Why study Wellness and Prevention at UNH College of Professional Studies?
The Minor in Wellness and Prevention can serve as a supplemental course of study to your major, providing you with a solid foundation in understanding factors that impact mental and physical well-being, as well as practices to…
What is Writing for Visual Media?
The minor in Writing for Visual Media is designed to establish specialized skills in writing for the web and various forms of media. Courses explore how to organize writing tasks, solve problems, and think critically and creatively to engage, inform, and persuade an audience using media. Students will have the opportunity to produce works tailored to a specific demographic and to hone their ability to write with clarity, precision, and purpose.
Why study Writing for Visual Media at UNH College of Professional Studies?
The minor in Writing for Visual Media is…