Bachelor of Arts in Art

at University of New Haven USA

The tools and machines that mechanical engineers have designed throughout history have lightened our loads, improved our quality of life, and taken us from the far reaches of outer space to the inner workings of minuscule nano devices. In the University of New Haven’s ABET-accredited B.S. in Mechanical Engineering program you will join that long line of pioneers, using your skills to design, analyze, improve, and test the products and systems that are essential to everyday life -- and to create those that don’t yet exist.

Through our program, you’ll build a multidisciplinary foundation in mechanical, chemical, civil, and electrical engineering and develop skills in physics, chemistry, and mathematics as well.

All of it provides the basis for detailed study in mechanical engineering, in which you will:

• Learn to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
• Design and conduct experiments, then analyze and interpret data
• Work hands-on in fully equipped, state-of-the-art laboratories
• Master modern techniques, skills, and engineering tools
• Explore the impact of engineering within global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts
• Design systems, components, and processes to meet specific needs and comply with realistic economic, environmental, social, ethical, and political restraints
• Gain real-world experience through an internship at a manufacturing company, consulting firm, technical organization, or government agency
• Have the opportunity to join the first semester, first-year study abroad program

Whether your goal is to become an entrepreneur or to pursue a career in a Fortune 500 company, a University of New Haven degree in business management will help you discover your niche and prepare you to set your sights on the top of the corporate ladder.

You’ll learn what it takes to manage staff, develop workable action plans, accomplish major goals, and thrive in the global business environment. You will be immersed in a leadership-building curriculum that includes courses in accounting, finance, marketing, economics, quantitative analysis, business law, and data management.

Specialize in an area you are passionate about
You can pursue our general management concentration, or you choose from one of these focus areas:

• Esports management: Learn how to become a leader in this billion dollar – and growing – industry by studying in the only esports administration program that is part of a business curriculum accredited by AACSB. Want a deeper immersion into the field? See our B.S. in Esports and Gaming.
• Sport management: Prepare for a career in professional sport management or collegiate athletics administration.
• Human resource management: Become a leader in helping to develop the most important capital of any business: its employees.
• Criminal Justice: Prepare to manage security forces, cybersecurity professionals, and others who mitigate the wide range of risks facing any private company or enterprise. Learn more.

The Hospitality and Tourism Management degree without a defined concentration affords students more elective choices and therefore enables students to add a minor from within the College of Business or from other Colleges in the University if they so choose

Program Outcomes

•     Students will apply general business knowledge to hospitality business operations and growth.
•     Compose written work that demonstrates application of business concepts in the Hospitality and Tourism  disciplines.
•     Develop a solution for a business/operations problem identified with a real-world organization from the Hospitality and Tourism industries.
•    Evaluate a current topic related to social responsibility in the Hospitality and Tourism industries.
•    Orally defend a position that addresses a current topic related to the Hospitality and Tourism industries and business ethics.
•    Demonstrate the ability to make collaborative decisions in the Hospitality and Tourism industries.
•    Demonstrate the ability to work effectively as a member of a team.
•    Evaluate how changes in the global market for hospitality and/or tourism impact key issues related to sustainability.

Ecological disruptions like the one mentioned above demonstrate the interconnectedness of each living thing to another. Our program gives you a deep knowledge of this interconnectedness and prepares you for a rewarding career that makes full use of your passion for the environment.

You’ll get a solid grounding in biological and earth sciences, chemistry, physics, and mathematics.

Get the hands-on fieldwork that impresses employers

The program places a strong emphasis on field research. Our location in Connecticut is a prime one for environmental science students, giving them a wide diversity of fascinating eco-systems to explore. Out of the classroom, you’ll get fresh-air, first-hand experience in:

• Our 5-acre salt marsh property along Long Island Sound
• Inland wetlands, lakes, and streams
• Forest systems
• The White Mountains of New Hampshire
• The Gerace Research Center on San Salvador island in the Bahamas

The B.S. in Health Sciences combines basic scientific knowledge, healthcare industry specific knowledge, and practical skills for students to be competitive in the 21st century healthcare workforce. The program addresses both the administrative and technical aspects of healthcare as well as the professional, social, ethical, and political elements.  Courses provide broad technical skills as well as the organizational competencies needed for entry level positions in a wide range of healthcare organizations and companies, as well as preparation for graduate study in clinical professions.  In particular, this program aims to provide a broad, interdisciplinary training for students interested in clinical and non-clinical health fields including but not limited to medicine, population health, clinical research administration, and healthcare administration.  The B.S. in Health Sciences also offers two optional concentrations: Speech-Language Pathology and Occupational Therapy.  Each of these concentrations focuses on a specific healthcare profession and is designed to prepare students for graduate school in an area of specialization.

Program Outcomes:

• Students will be competent in collecting, interpreting, and analyzing health-related data
• Students will be competent in formulating research questions and critically evaluating research done by others
• Students will demonstrate leadership skills and their ability to work in interprofessional teams.
• Students will be competent in communicating effectively about health sciences topics to peer and professional audiences.
• Students will demonstrate competence in understanding laws and regulations applicable to health professional practice.
• Students will demonstrate competence in identifying the social and behavioral aspects of health for individuals and populations.
• Students will demonstrate cultural competence in healthcare settings and discussions.
• Students will demonstrate professionalism incorporating the ethical values of the discipline.
• Students will be competent in applying scientific knowledge, skills and techniques to health-related problems
• Students will be competent in understanding the roles of individuals, structures and processes in the functioning of the US healthcare system

The Master of Science in Human Resources is designed to prepare professionals to advance their careers in the field of human resources. The program emphasizes the strategic role that human resources plays in the achievement of a firm’s competitive strategy, while providing students with the knowledge and skills needed to be effective human resource leaders. Specific focus will be on the emerging set of human resource competencies and skills needed to navigate the evolving human resources field including globalization, diversity and inclusion, corporate social responsibility, and strategic leadership.

Students will examine each of the major human resources functional areas including recruitment and selection, compensation and benefits, performance management, employee relations, change management, and learning and development. Students will also learn about key human resource processes, human resource analytics, and the set of skills needed to be a strategic business partner with an organization’s business lines and other enabling functions.

This program requires 36 graduate credits: 21 credits from core courses, 12 credits from one of three concentrations, and 3 credits from a restricted elective.

Program Outcomes: 
By the end of the program students will be able to: 

• Exhibit sophisticated knowledge of HR/business management practices that lead to professional HR career-related success.
• Employ strategic thinking necessary to be an effective business partner.
• Demonstrate reasoning leading to ethical, legal and socially responsible decision-making.
• Demonstrate compelling oral and written communication capabilities.
• (For the Talent Management Concentration)
• Create plans to recruit, hire, train, retain, and motivate a diverse and global workforce.
• (For the Organizational Leadership Concentration)
• Demonstrate interaction skills in working effectively with others and change management skills in such a way as to be influential in a leadership capacity.
• (For the Employee Relations Concentration)
• Effectively utilize and apply conflict intervention and negotiation strategies in the management and resolution of workplace disputes.

The objective of the Master of Science in Accounting program is to provide an in-depth framework for artificial intelligence (AI)/analytics, corporate, forensic, and taxation accounting inquiry, devised in structure and content from the entire scope and process of accounting-information-based economic decision-making. The existence of such a framework is intended to provide graduate accountants and professional practitioners with an opportunity to share in the development and assessment of issues of accounting interest within a decision-making context. Additionally, the Master of Science in Accounting program is designed to provide non-accountants and practitioners with the accounting credits requisite for certification.

Program Outcomes:

• Students will demonstrate familiarity with the fundamental concepts and knowledge in their concentration areas of Corporate, Forensic, Tax, or AI/Analytics.
• Students will be able to apply knowledge from 1.1 toward analysis and analyze data using technology and information systems and using appropriate quantitative and analytical techniques.
• Students will able to integrate knowledge from functional Accounting areas and formulate solutions that consider both the internal and the external environments of an organization.
• Students will be able to analyze the effects of business transactions using Accounting fundamentals.
• Students will able to demonstrate an understanding of social responsibility in accounting and its effects on stakeholders.
• Students will able to demonstrate the ability to apply a variety of ethical principles within the Accounting practice.
• Students will be able create well written documents related to Accounting topics.
• Students will recognize and explain how different Accounting sub-disciplines interrelate.

As a criminal justice major at the University of New Haven, you’ll join one of the nation’s most established and diversified criminal justice programs. It’s a program that allows you to customize a major that fuses your interests with pragmatic, sought-after learning opportunities that will lead you to a successful and fulfilling career in this challenging and rewarding field.

You will gain an acute understanding of crime-solving and public safety issues as you learn to not only navigate the intricate fields of criminal justice but also shape the future of our justice system.

As a criminal justice major at the University of New Haven, you’ll join one of the nation’s most established and diversified criminal justice programs. It’s a program that allows you to customize a major that fuses your interests with pragmatic, sought-after learning opportunities that will lead you to a successful and fulfilling career in this challenging and rewarding field.

Program Outcomes:

• Demonstrate the knowledge of theory, methods, and empirical findings related to issues of police, correction, and courts.
• Analyze a substantial body of literature related to police, corrections, or courts.
• Communicate criminal justice concepts orally and in writing.
• Evaluate and moral issues in a professional/disciplinary setting.

As a student in the University of New Haven’s Master of Arts program in industrial/organizational psychology, you will bring psychological principles to the workplace to benefit both employees and employers.

Through this program, you will:

• Learn to work with individuals and groups on organizational change and development, leadership and management development, conflict management, team dynamics, and strategic human resource management
• Benefit from opportunities to participate in internships or complete thesis research.
• Enjoy a flexible course curriculum and schedule that accommodates graduate assistantships, internships, or full-time jobs
• Have the option to complete a practicum project at the organization where you are currently employed
• Complete the program in two years (full time) or less than three years (part time)

Graphic design is an activity of visual communication; its study is the critical analysis between form and content. The BFA in Graphic Design examines communication through the use of words, symbols, and images, and explores the graphic designer’s ability to bring clarity and visual aesthetics to communication through an understanding of the means of production, theory, and design practice.

The introductory courses in the graphic design program concentrate on basic design vocabulary, composition, color perception, and drawing. The curriculum continues and progresses through semiotics and practical techniques associated with typography, illustration, problem-solving methodologies, and applied design projects in branding, way-finding, and advocacy. The BFA in Graphic Design prepares students for the professional environment of graphic design found in independent design studios, agencies, and corporations. Additionally, the rigorous course of study provides students with the foundation to continue with graduate studies in the field.

Program Outcomes

Students in this program will:

• Demonstrate the principles and elements of art and design.
• Illustrate how graphic design themes and styles have been influenced by historical events.
• Develop a body of cohesive artwork which aligns with personal professional goals.
• Formulate a personal creative research project in an area of interest and produce a successful thesis exhibition.