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Business Administration

The bachelor of arts in business administration provides students with the skills required by a variety of careers in business, including nonprofit organizations working in areas of church-related ministry. Expert faculty and challenging courses make this FPU's fastest-growing undergraduate program!

Distinctive Features

This degree offers five unique emphases allowing students to specialize in the area most suited to their interests:

Political Science Minor

The political science minor introduces students to the political world, providing an increased understanding of political activities both inside and outside of the United States. The minor trains students to become active participants in community organizations, electoral politics and movements on behalf of specific policies.

Social Science Secondary Teaching

The social science secondary teaching major equips prospective teachers with a profound knowledge about history and social sciences and an understanding of contemporary approaches to teaching them. The program is interdisciplinary in approach, global and multi-cultural in perspective, and informed by a Christian worldview.

Intercultural Studies Minor

Culture encompasses our habits, our lifestyle, our language-it shapes who we are has humans. The intercultural studies minor exposes students to cultural contexts other than their own. Students learn central elements of understanding and working in diverse and different cultural environments.

Distinctive Features

Courses for the intercultural studies minor discuss many of the topics that are enveloped in culture: religion, political science, geography, sociology, theology and communication.

Philosophy

Philosophy is defined as the pursuit of wisdom through logical investigations of reality, knowledge and morality. The study of philosophy is commonly understood to be a critical element of a liberal arts education, helping students develop the skills necessary to articulate self-reflection and analysis.

Communication

The communication major approaches various topics from a broad, liberal arts perspective that includes the historical, philosophical, and theoretical roots of communication. Each course provides foundational knowledge necessary for successful work and service in the public, private and religious sectors, as well as in future graduate studies.

English

The English major allows students to understand many of the significant experiences and issues of human existence as they are expressed in literature. Through this major, graduates learn to communicate thoughts and insights through effective writing and speech.

Distinctive Features

The English major provides the opportunity for students to gain experience across many areas, including literature, composition, creative writing, linguistics, media studies and theater.

Music

The music major provides students with preparation for life-long appreciation of and participation in a rich variety of musical forms of expression. The major emphasizes performance and combines theory with practical participation in a variety of musical activities.

Kinesiology Minor: Physical Education Teaching

Similar to the secondary teaching emphasis of the kinesiology major, this minor prepares students to teach physical education in K-12 schools.

Distinctive Features

Courses for this minor cover the main topics of the major, as well as elementary and secondary physical education methods.

Career Opportunities

The kinesiology secondary teaching minor is designed for students majoring in another area who wish to teach physical education, as well as for those preparing for the si

Theater Minor

The theater minor serves as an introduction to theater history, aesthetics and the analysis, criticism, and staging of performance texts. The minor may be integrated with any major, offering students intellectual and experiential resources complementary to such fields as teaching, communication and ministry.

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