Master of Public Health with Concentration in Social Behavior and Community Health

at State University of New York at Albany USA

If you want to develop as an artist, challenge yourself and move people with your work, make immediate strides with the bachelor's in art program at the University at Albany. Guided by expert faculty members, you'll be able to follow your interests and discover your artistic potential.

The program focuses on inspiration and passion for visual art while strengthening the technical and craft-based elements of creating work. Instructors will help you cross the line between learning to be an artist and becoming one.

Printmaking
The Printmaking Program emphasizes artistic innovation and experimentation while offering a thorough grounding in both traditional and contemporary technique. Course offerings include Etching, Silkscreen, Digital Printmaking, Collage, Woodcut, Photopolymer Gravure, Monotype, Artists' Books, and Animation. Printmaking is taught in terms of its relationship to the cultural issues of reproduction, communication, exchange, consumption, rarity, and originality, as well to the practices of drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture. A "print" may be a mixed media work-on-paper; a paper or printed fabric sculpture; a photo-etching created from a digital file, or a wallpaper installation, for example. The technical procedures employed may continue traditions dating to the Renaissance, utilize digital imaging, or combine both approaches in a single printwork.

Pursue a career in teaching, performance, arts administration, or the music industry with the bachelor's in music program at the University at Albany. Whether your goal is professional activity or graduate study, our program allows you to expand your knowledge and further your technical skills. Graduates work in non-profit and commercial settings such as choral organizations, churches, opera houses, orchestra management, recording studios, and educational institutions of all levels.

Dive into the Spanish language. Language skills, historical reference points and topical awareness must be a priority as you become involved in cultural issues involving Spanish-speaking populations around the world. A master's in Spanish from the University at Albany combines linguistic immersion with rigorous academic research, with a diverse and knowledgeable faculty pushing students to make breakthroughs in understanding.

Your path to non-governmental organizations and nonprofits, public sector work, international business or teaching runs through this in-depth program. Expressing yourself eloquently in Spanish calls for deep linguistic comprehension and cultural discovery, both of which are part of the MA in Spanish curriculum.

Launch your career as an information technology security analyst, cyber defense manager, or forensic examiner in the private or public sector. 

UAlbany’s master’s in digital forensics and cybersecurity will teach you how to rapidly detect and deter malicious network intruders and use special forensics tools to gather and analyze digital evidence.

Cyber Defense Track
This track covers computer hardware and operating systems, cyber security threats and controls, network monitoring, vulnerability scanning, anomaly and intrusion detection, incident response methods, and machine learning and artificial intelligence in cyber defense.

By the end of the program, you’ll know how to set up a monitoring system and analyze network traffic, identify system threats, analyze cybersecurity incidents, reverse engineer malware, manage risks, and develop regulation-compliant security policies.

Create useful applications and solve practical data management problems with interdisciplinary skills in information technology and computer science taught in the bachelor's program in informatics.

Through team-based activities and hands-on exercises, you'll learn how to store and retrieve data, employ emerging technologies, and build user-centered systems – all of which are embedded in the day-to-day operations of every organization.

From relational databases to client-based web technologies, and internal computer architecture to networking fundamentals, you'll be prepared to lead complex digital projects from start to finish.

Information Technology

Required courses are Human-Computer Interactive Design, Intermediate Networking, Information Security and Assurance, Programming for Informatics.

If you recently earned your bachelor's degree and want to enhance your knowledge before entering the workplace; or if you have been working and want to make a career change, the Full-Time MBA program at the University at Albany is the right program for you.

In your first year, you learn fundamental concepts in finance, accounting, marketing, operations, human resource management, organizational behavior, and information technology. You will also travel abroad and participate in an international consulting project.

During your second year, you work closely with research faculty and regional business leaders as you develop leading edge knowledge and practical skills in your concentration area through hands-on experiences in real business settings.

Concentration options include cybersecurity, entrepreneurship, finance, human resource information systems, information systems and business analysis, and marketing.

Entrepreneurship
The MBA concentration in entrepreneurship prepares you to think and behave like an entrepreneur, whether you wish to launch your own new venture, work in a corporation, or establish a nonprofit or social venture.

You will learn how to identify and assess opportunities, write an effective business plan, set goals, implement strategies, seek venture capital, and hire and manage employees as a new business grows.

To support the well-being of individuals and communities, you need to understand the psychological, social, cultural, and biological aspects of human development and learning across the life span.

In the interdisciplinary bachelor's in human development, you work toward your long-term career goals by personalizing your course of study with a concentration in your specific area of interest.

Graduates are employed as behavioral specialists, at-risk youth counselors, child development consultants, program evaluators, academic advisors, and institutional research analysts.

Common workplaces include schools, social services, pediatric hospitals, juvenile justice systems, wellness clinics, disability support providers, VA hospitals, and mental health agencies.

Higher Education Concentration
Gain leadership skills to prepare for administrative jobs in universities and other post-secondary education institutions.

Master the theories and applications that enable machines to learn and make predictions. Whether you want to work with big data in a corporate setting or craft your own algorithms as a technology pioneer, the master’s in data science program will equip you with the knowledge, skills and support to achieve your professional ambitions.

You will learn how to acquire, process, analyze and present complex data to make better management and policy decisions in industries like biotechnology, energy, quality control, transportation, telecommunications and politics.

 Explore potential answers to complex questions about morality, justice, knowledge, and reasoning in the master's in philosophy program at the University at Albany.

You can complete this program even if you didn't study philosophy as an undergraduate. Master's students in UAlbany's philosophy department come from many different disciplines.

This diversity of thought ensures excellent seminar discussions and a dynamic learning experience that leads many graduates to pursue further academic study in their areas of interest.

Deepen your understanding of major civic issues and explore different ways you can help solve social problems by developing creative public policy solutions and improving management.

The interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy and Management at UAlbany will give you a broad understanding of the relationships between government legislation, public policy, economics, politics, civil rights, regulation and finance, and city, state, federal, and global affairs.

The program includes foundational coursework and electives in management and politics, and quantitative methods and policy. Then you get to earn a concentration in the area of study that best matches your personal interests and career goals.

Local Government
Everything you need to know about local government will be offered in this concentration. From urban planning to public finance, and from community organizing to motivating public and non-profit workers. This concentration is ideal if you're interested in becoming a mayor, county manager, or other local government official.