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Degrees
granted
Bluffton University currently
grants four degrees: the bachelor of arts, the master of
arts in education, the master of arts in organizational
management and the master of business administration.
Academic departments
The faculty is
organized into the following departments:
Art
Communication and theatre
Economics,
business administration and accounting
Education
English and
language
Family and consumer sciences
Health,
physical education and recreation
History and religion
Mathematics
Music
Science
Social and behavioral sciences
(criminal
justice, psychology, social
work, sociology)
Technology
related programs
Abbreviations
The
following abbreviations are used for the various academic
areas:
Art (ART)
Biology (BIO)
Chemistry
(CEM)
Communication (COM)
Computer science
(CPS)
Criminal justice (CRJ)
Economics, business
administration and accounting (EBA)
Education
(EDU)
English (ENG)
Family and consumer sciences
(FCS)
Geography (GEO)
German (GER)
Greek
(GRK)
Health, physical education and recreation
(HPR)
Hebrew (HEB)
History (HIS)
Honors (HON)
Humanities (HUM)
Liberal arts and sciences
(LAS)
Management (MGT)
Mathematics (MAT)
Music
(MUS)
Natural science (NSC)
Organizational management
(OMP)
Peace and conflict studies (PCS)
Philosophy
(PHI)
Physics (PHY)
Political science
(PLS)
Psychology (PSY)
Recreation management
(REC)
Religion (REL)
Spanish (SPA)
Special education
(SED)
Social sciences (SSC)
Social work
(SWK)
Sociology (SOC)
Technology (TEC)
Theatre
(THE)
Course numbers
Courses
are numbered to correspond with the recommended sequence in
which they should be taken. Normally numbers also correspond
with the college level at which they are taken. Courses
numbered 300 or higher are upper-level courses primarily for
juniors and seniors, though open to other qualified students;
courses numbered lower than 300 are primarily for first-year
students and sophomores. Courses numbered above 500 are
graduate level courses. Students are advised to note
prerequisites listed in course descriptions and to confer with
their academic advisors or the registrar concerning sequence
and level of specific courses.
Course
Credit
Bluffton University operates on a
semester calendar. All course credit is given in semester
hours. The number of semester hours for each course is
indicated in parentheses.
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