The College of Integrative Sciences and Arts: Academic Degrees

Why be integrative ?

Find a degree you love as an

Exploratory Student

Exploratory tracks

At ASU you’ll be exposed to exciting fields of inquiry you may never have considered (or even heard of!) before.

How to choose the best major (and possibly minors and certificates) for you?

As an Exploratory student you can investigate majors across ASU while you complete your General Studies requirements, taking a range of specialty courses within a broad area.

Choose one of four Exploratory tracks that align with many different majors and potential career paths.

Engineering, Math, Technology and Physical Sciences 2. Fine Arts, Humanities and Design 3. Health and Life Sciences 4. Social and Behavioral Sciences 1.

Guidance from professional staff As you complete your General Studies courses, ASU professional staff in Major and Career Exploration help you think deeply about your interests, values and personality and discover how they translate to academic programs that will be satisfying and exciting to you!

It’s an active, thoughtful process designed to help you explore and select your academic path with confidence, combining:

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One-credit career exploration courses Online tools Individual career coaching sessions

Consider the Exploratory Leadership Program for first-year students: Experience monthly leadership seminars, service projects, high school outreach, represent the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at community events — and earn a $250 bookstore stipend each semester.

Did you know?

ASU Exploratory students not only change majors less frequently than their peers, they also graduate at a higher rate! Having invested the time to make a thoughtful decision about a major and career path, they actually save time (and money!).

Take the Me3 career quiz: Download the ASU Me3 app and use this interactive, visual assessment to begin to see how some of the things you’re already passionate about transfer to different majors and careers.

Take the quiz here: yourfuture.asu.edu/me3

Humanities Undergraduate Degrees • English, BA • History, BA • History of Science, Ideas and Innovation, BA • General Studies, BA • Liberal Studies, BA • Environmental Humanities, Certificate

Graduate Degrees • Narrative Studies, MS

Opportunities for applied experiences and mentorship in editing and publishing: Superstition Review The online literary magazine published in the fall and spring by ASU creative writing and web design students features art, fiction, interviews, nonfiction and poetry of established and emerging artists and authors from all over the world.

Founding editor: Patricia Colleen Murphy, awardwinning poet.

superstitionreview.asu.edu

Write On, Downtown The annual journal showcases the work of student and community writers and artists in a celebration of the intercultural, intergenerational, collegial and communal space of collaboration that is Phoenix.

Editor-in-chief: Rosemarie Dombrowski, City of Phoenix inaugural Poet Laureate.

cisa.asu.edu/write-on

A stepping stone to professional work related to: • Writing and editing

• Education and training

• Public history

• Public relations

• Museums, archives,

• General management

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• Marketing management

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curation Instructional design Regulatory affairs Project management Politics

• News reporting • Data warehousing

• Banking, financial

planning and real estate • Intelligence • Medical and health service coordination • Web administration

• Law

Build the skills and confidence to pursue your dreams with • A small-school feel with personal attention and support • Close interaction with faculty mentors and classmates • Out-of-the-box thinking and problemsolving relevant to many organizations

• Broad learning for a changing global marketplace with diverse cultures • Excellent foundation and rigor, to prepare you for what you want to pursue next!

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Communication and Technical Communication

Undergraduate degrees

Graduate degrees

• Communication, BA

• Technical Communication, MS

• Technical Communication, BS

• User Experience, MS

• Technical Communication (User Experience), BS

• Technical Communication,

• Applied Science (Technical Communication), BAS • Spanish for the Professions, Certificate

• Peace Corps Prep, Certificate

Certificate

Build the skills and confidence to pursue your dreams with: • A small-school feel with personal

attention and support • Close interaction with faculty mentors and classmates • Out-of-the-box thinking and problemsolving relevant to many organizations

• Up-to-date digital skills • Learning that is rooted in real-life

communication needs and challenges

• Excellent foundation and rigor, to prepare you for what you want to pursue next!

A stepping stone to professional work related to: • • • • •

Technical writing, editing Web development Instructional design Software quality engineering Project management

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Graphic design Human factors engineering Search engine optimization Education and training

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General management Marketing management Public health Law

Public relations

A solid foundation for graduate or professional programs in business, social sciences, humanities, public policy and administration, software engineering, law or medicine, and more.

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Leadership and Interdisciplinary Studies

Undergraduate degrees

Graduate degrees

• General Studies, BA

• Master of Liberal Studies

• Interdisciplinary Studies, BA

• Organizational Leadership, MS

• Interdisciplinary Studies (Organizational Studies), BA • Liberal Studies, BA • Organizational Leadership, BA • Organizational Leadership (Project Management), BA • Peace Corps Prep, Certificate

Build the skills and confidence to pursue your dreams with: • Highly flexible degree programs you

can tailor to your interests (e.g. choose 2 concentrations from more than 170+ options to form your interdisciplinary studies major) • An approach to leadership and problemsolving relevant to many organizations • Practice drawing from methodologies across disciplines

• Opportunities for applied internships in

interdisciplinary studies and in select study abroad programs • Excellent foundation and rigor, to prepare you for what you want to pursue next!

A stepping stone to professional work related to: • • • • • •

project management managing diverse work teams sales, marketing and PR banking/financial planning policy analysis and development planning & evaluation

• entrepreneurship • government service, administration

• social advocacy and case work • humanities or social science research

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health and safety administration law and law enforcement education and training writing and editing arts performance, management

A solid foundation for graduate or professional programs in business, social sciences, humanities, public policy and administration, economics and statistics, law or medicine, and more.

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Applied Sciences & Math Undergraduate degrees

Graduate degrees

• Applied Biological Sciences concentrations in:

• MS in Applied Biological Sciences

◦ Natural resource ecology ◦ Pre-Veterinary medicine ◦ Sustainable horticulture ◦ Applied biological sciences ◦ Secondary education in biology

• Applied Mathematics • Applied Physics • Applied Quantitative Science • Desert Food Production, Certificate

• Wildlife Management, Certificate

• 4+1 combination BS/MS in Applied Biological Sciences

Build the skills and confidence to pursue your dreams with: • A small-school feel with personal attention and support.

• Modern labs and a tranquil learning environment in a desert arboretum landscape.

• Close interaction with faculty mentors and classmates.

• Applied research and fieldwork opportunities.

• Excellent foundation and rigor, to prepare you for what you want to pursue next!

A stepping stone to professional work related to: • Science and

• Managing habitats

• Electrodynamics

• Biotechnology

• Conserving soil, water

• Chemical and pharmaceutical

• Mathematical modeling • Scientific software • Using chemistry, physics and

• Environmental management • Urban horticulture • Material science

medical research or biophysics

math to solve real-world issues

and wildlife

and natural resource

and radar physics manufacturing

A solid foundation for graduate or professional programs related to science, math and health-related professions: • • • • • •

Medicine Veterinary programs Dentistry Optometry Physician assistant Public health

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Physical therapy Occupational therapy Epidemiology Biochemistry Chemistry Genetics

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Physics Astronomy Economics Public/business administration

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Social and Behavioral Sciences Undergraduate degrees

Graduate degrees

• Counseling and Applied Psychological Science, BS

• Counseling, MC

• Psychology, BA or BS

• Counseling Psychology, PhD

• Integrative Social Science, BS • Political Science, BS

Approved program status from Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners.

Accredited by the American Psychological Association.

• Integrative Social Science, MS May be completed as 4+1 combination BS/MS.

• Science, Technology, and Society, BS

Build the skills and confidence to pursue your dreams with: • Significant clinical experiences in

graduate-level counseling/psychology.

• Excellent foundation and rigor, to prepare you for what you want to pursue next!

• An approach to social analysis and

problem-solving relevant to many fields.

• Practice drawing from methodologies across the social sciences to solve challenges.

• A small-school feel with personal attention and support.

• Close interaction with faculty mentors and classmates.

A stepping stone to professional work related to: • Providing mental health

• Sales and marketing, managing

• Government service

• Helping people cope with

• Teaching and guiding youth.

• Environmental,

• Campaign planning

treatment.

human resources.

life challenges.

• Addiction counseling.

• Managing human resources.

• Providing social services to many

and administration.

and implementation.

• Conflict resolution.

• Social advocacy

economic assessment.

• Policy analysis and development.

• City and transportation planning.

• Program evaluation.

population segments.

and case work.

• Human behavior research.

A solid foundation for graduate or professional programs related to science, math and health-related professions: • • • • • •

community planning public health political science psychology sociology social work

• medicine and health-related • • • •

professions sales and marketing managing human resources educating and guiding youth government

• economics • law • public/business administration

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