Missouri State University

Office of the Registrar

2012-2013 Undergraduate Catalog

Preliminary Edition
published April 2012

Majors and Minors

Majors

  • Degree codes are in parenthesis.
  • Majors that require a minor are noted. 
  • Option areas are in italics.

Accounting (BS)

Agricultural Business (BS) Options: Agricultural Enterprise Management; Agricultural Finance and Management; Agricultural Marketing and Sales

Agriculture Education (BSED)

Agronomy (title changed to Natural Resources effective Fall 2011)

Animal Science (BS)

Anthropology (BA, BS) Minor Required.

Art (BFA) Options: Ceramics, Computer Animation, Digital Arts, Drawing, Metals/Jewelry, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture

Art and Design (BA, BSED)

Art History (BA) Minor Required.

Athletic Training (BSAT)

Biology (BA, BS) Minor Required.

Biology (BS) Options: Environmental Biology and Evolution; Microbiology and Biotechnology; Wildlife Biology

Biology Education (BSED) Options: Categorical Science, Unified Science

Business Education (BSED)

Cell and Molecular Biology (BS)

Chemistry (BS) Minor Required.

Chemistry (BS) Options: Biochemistry, Graduate School, Industrial

Chemistry Education (BSED) Options: Categorical Science, Unified Science

Child and Family Development (BS)

Classics-Latin Concentration (BA) Minor Required.

Classics-Latin Concentration (BSED)

Clinical Laboratory Sciences-Medical Technology (BS)

Communication (BA, BS) Minor Required. Options: Communication Studies; Ethical Leadership; Health Communication; Intercultural Communication and Diversity; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Communication; Rhetoric

Communication Sciences and Disorders (BS) Options: Audiology; Education of Deaf and Hard of Hearing; Speech-Language Pathology

Computer Information Systems (BS)

Computer Science (BS) Minor Required.

Construction Management (BS)

Criminology (BA, BS)

Dance (See Theatre and Dance)

Design (BFA) Options: Graphic Design; Graphic Design and Illustration; Illustration

Dietetics (BS)

Early Childhood Education (BSED)

Earth Science Education (BSED) Options: Categorical Science, Unified Science

Economics (BA, BS) Minor Required.

Economics (BS)

Electronic Arts (BS) Minor Required. Options: Audio Studies, Computer Animation Studies, Multimedia Studies, Video Studies 

Elementary Education (BSED)

English (BA) Minor Required. Options: Creative Writing, Literature

English (BSED)

Entertainment Management (BS)

Entrepreneurship (BS)

Environmental Plant Science (BS) Options: Horticulture, Crop Science

Exercise and Movement Science (BS) Options: Health Studies, Pre-Professional

Facility Management (BS) Options: Healthcare, Hospitality, Industrial/Production, Property Management

Family and Consumer Sciences (BSED)

Fashion Merchandising and Design (BS) Options: Fashion Design and Product Development; Fashion Merchandising and Management

Finance (BS) Options: Finance, Financial Planning, Real Estate

French (BA, BS) Minor Required.

French (BSED)

General Agriculture (BAS)

General Agriculture (BS) Options: Agricultural Communications, Agriculture

General Business (BS)

Geography (BA) Minor Required.

Geography (BS) Minor Required. Options: Cultural and Regional Geography; Environmental and Natural Resources; Geotourism

Geology (BS) Minor Required.

Geology (BS)

Geospatial Sciences (BS)

German (BA, BS) Minor Required.

German (BSED)

Gerontology (BS)

Global Studies (BA) Minor Required.

History (BA) Minor Required.

History (BSED)

Horticulture (title changed to Environmental Plant Science effective Fall 2011)

Hospitality and Restaurant Administration (BS) Options: Club Management; Food and Beverage; General Operations; Lodging; Senior Living Management; Tourism

Housing and Interior Design (title changed to Interior Design effective Fall 2011)

Individualized (BA, BS)

Information Technology Service Management (BS)

Interior Design (BS)

Journalism (BS) Minor Required. Options: Broadcast Journalism; Print and Internet Journalism

Latin (title changed to Classics-Latin Concentration effective Fall 2011)

Logistics and Supply Chain Management (BS)

Management (BS) Options: Administrative Management, Human Resources Management, International Business Administration, Operations Management

Marketing (BS) Options: Advertising and Promotion; Marketing Management; Marketing Research; Sales/Sales Management

Mass Media (BA, BS) Minor Required. Options: Film Studies, Media Studies

Mass Media (BS) Options: Digital Film Production, Media Production

Mathematics (BA) Minor Required.

Mathematics (BS, BSED)

Mathematics (BS) Minor Required. Options: Actuarial Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, General Mathematics, Statistics

Middle School Education (BSED) Options: Language Arts and Social Sciences; Language Arts and Mathematics; Language Arts and Science; Mathematics and Science; Mathematics and Social Science; Science and Social Sciences

Music (BA) Minor Required.

Music (BME) Options: Instrumental; Vocal/Choral

Music (BMUS) Options: Composition, Instrumental Performance, Jazz Performance, Keyboard Performance, Vocal Performance

Musical Theatre (BFA) Program Jointly Offered by Department of Music and Department of Theatre and Dance

Natural Resources (BS)

Nursing/Generic 4-Year Program (BSN)

Nursing/Completion Program for Registered Nurses (BSN)

Philosophy (BA, BS) Minor Required.

Physical Education (BSED)

Physics (BS) Options: Astronomy and Astrophysics; Engineering and Applied Physics; Materials Physics; Graduate Prep Physics

Physics Education (BSED)

Planning (BS) Options: Community and Regional Planning; Tourism Planning and Development

Political Science (BA, BS) Minor Required.

Professional Writing (BA, BS) Minor Required.

Psychology (BA, BS) Minor Required.

Public Relations (BS) Minor Required.

Radiography (BS) Options: Management, Science

Recreation, Sport and Park Administration (BS) Minor Required.

Recreation, Sport and Park Administration (BS)

Religious Studies (BA, BS) Minor Required.

Respiratory Therapy (BS) Options: Management, Science

Risk Management and Insurance (BS)

Socio-Political Communication (BS)

Social Work (BSW)

Sociology (BA, BS) Minor Required.

Spanish (BA, BS) Minor Required.

Spanish (BSED)

Special Education/Cross Categorical (BSED)

Speech and Theatre Education (BSED) Options: Communication, Theatre

Technology Management (BAS)

Technology Management (BS) Minor Required.

Theatre and Dance (BFA) Options: Acting, Dance, Design/Technology/Stage Management

Theatre Studies (BA) Minor Required.

Wildlife Conservation and Management (BS) Program Jointly Offered by William H. Darr School of Agriculture and Department of Biology

Minors

  • Degree codes are in parenthesis.
  • Minor degree code must match the major degree code. Example: student with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) major that requires a minor must select from those minors that are designated (BA).

Accounting (BA, BAS, BS)

Advertising and Promotion (BA, BAS, BFA, BS)

African American Studies (BA, BS, BSW)

Agricultural Business (BS)

Agriculture (BSED)

Agronomy (BS)

Ancient Greek (title changed to Classics-Concentration in Ancient Greek effective Fall 2011)

Animal Science (BS)

Anthropology (BA, BS, BSW)

Antiquities (BA, BS)

Art (BA, BS)

Art History (BA, BFA, BS,BSED)

Asian Studies (BA, BS)

Astronomy (BA, BS)

Biology (BA, BS, BSED)

Biomedical Sciences (BA, BS, BSAT, BSN)

Business Education (BSED)

Chemistry (BA, BS)

Child and Family Development (BA, BS, BSW)

Chinese (BA, BS)

Classics-Concentration in Ancient Greek (BA)

Classics-Latin Concentration (BA, BS, BSED)

Coaching (BA, BS, BSED)

Communication (BA, BS)

Community and Regional Planning (BS)

Computer Information Systems (BA, BAS, BS)

Computer Science (BA, BS)

Creative Writing (BA, BFA, BS)

Criminology (BA, BS, BSED, BSW)

Dance (BA, BS)

Design (BS)

Economics (BA, BS, BSED)

English (BA, BFA, BMUS, BS, BSED)

Entrepreneurial Studies (BS)

Entrepreneurship (BS)

Environmental Physics Technology (BS)

Environmental Sciences and Policy (BA, BS)

Equine Studies (BA, BS)

Ethical Leadership (BA, BS, BSED)

Ethics and Social Policy (BA, BFA, BS, BSED, BSW)

Exercise Biology (BS, BSAT)

Film Studies (BA, BS)

Finance (BA, BAS, BS)

Financial Planning (BA, BAS, BS)

Folklore (BA, BFA, BS, BSED)

French (BA, BS, BSED)

Gender Studies (BA, BS, BSED, BSN, BSW)

General Agriculture (BS)

General Business (BA, BAS, BS)

General Family and Consumer Sciences (BA, BS, BSED)

Geography (BA, BS, BSED)

Geology (BA, BS)

Geospatial Sciences (BS)

Geotourism (BA, BS)

German (BA, BS, BSED)

Gerontology (BA, BS, BSW)

Global Studies (BA, BS)

Health Care Management (BA, BS, BSN)

History (BA, BS, BSED, BSW)

Horticulture (BS)

Housing and Interior Design (BA, BS)

Human Resources Management/Industrial Relations (BA, BAS, BS)

Industrial Management (BA, BAS, BS)

Informatics (BS)

Information Technology Service Management (BA, BAS, BS)

International Management (BA, BAS, BS)

International Marketing (BA, BAS, BS)

International Relations (BA, BS)

Journalism (BA, BS)

Latin (title changed to Classics-Latin Concentration effective Fall 2011)

Latin American Studies (BA, BFA, BS, BSW)

Law and Society, The (BA, BS)

Leadership (BS)

Legal Studies in Business (BA, BAS, BS)

Library Science (BA, BFA, BS, BSED)

Linguistics (BA, BS, BSED)

Literacy (BSED)

Logistics and Supply Chain Management (BA, BAS, BS)

Management (BA, BAS, BS)

Marketing (BA, BAS, BFA, BS)

Mass Media (BA, BS)

Mathematics (BA, BS, BSED)

Middle Eastern Studies (BA, BS)

Military Science (BA, BS, BSED)

Molecular Biology (BS)

Music (BA, BS)

Music (BSED) options: Instrumental, Vocal

Music Composition (BA, BMUS, BS)

Native American Studies (BA, BFA, BS)

Nutrition (BA, BS, BSAT, BSN)

Operations Management (BS)

Ozarks Studies (BA, BFA, BS)

Personalized Minor (any degree)

Philosophy (BA, BFA, BS, BSED, BSW)

Physics (BS)

Political Science (BA, BS, BSED, BSW)

Psychology (BA, BAS, BFA, BM, BS, BSAT, BSED, BSN, BSW)

Public Administration (BA, BS, BSED, BSW)

Public Law (BA, BS, BSW)

Real Estate (BA, BAS, BS)

Recording Arts (BA, BMUS, BS)

Recreation, Sport, and Park Administration (BA, BS)

Religious Studies (BA, BS, BSED, BSW)

Risk Management and Insurance (BA, BAS, BS)

Screenwriting (BA, BFA, BS)

Selling (BA, BAS, BS)

Sociology (BA, BS, BSED, BSW)

Spanish (BA, BS, BSED)

Sports Medicine (BA, BAS, BFA, BME, BMUS, BS, BSED, BSN, BSW)

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Language (BSED)

Technical Writing (BA, BFA, BS)

Theatre (BA, BS)

Web Application Development (BA, BAS, BS)

Writing (BSED)