Bachelor of Arts, Major in Mathematics with Concentration in Pure Mathematics (STEM)

at Southern New Hampshire University USA

Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design and Media Arts from Southern New Hampshire University.

Unlike fine arts schools, SNHU can expand your career options by enhancing your arts degree with courses in advertising, business, communication, marketing, psychology, technology and many other areas. You'll learn a range of valuable, career-oriented skills, including how to create:

• Logos, logotypes and symbols
• Advertisements and posters
• Brochures and marketing materials
• TV commercials and documentaries
• Web sites
• Interactive designs

The BA in Graphic Design and Media Arts is one of SNHU’s Experience More programs. In these programs, you’ll be on a more structured, career-focused pathway to your degree. Designed to incorporate industry experience and prepare you for the workplace more rapidly, at least 36 of your credits will be earned through experiential learning—which may include studio work, lab work, project-based courses, internships, or industry certifications.

You’ll also learn through a mix of face-to-face classroom and online formats. That means less seat time in traditional classroom settings, and more time engaging with faculty members as project leads, internship advisors, or coaches.

Novelists, memoirists, poets, playwrights and screenwriters articulate the questions of our time. They help us to free ourselves from our easy assumptions and to empathize with people whose circumstances differ from our own. Literature gives our culture a way to talk to itself.

SNHU's major in creative writing is for students interested in careers in writing and book publishing, and for students who simply wish to explore a passion for writing. It teaches skills useful for journalism, law, communications, and many other professions. It prepares students for graduate programs, like the university's low-residency Master of Fine Arts in fiction and nonfiction writing. Creative writing courses begin during freshman year.

Publishing opportunities at SNHU include the student literary journal, The Manatee, and contests in the university's nationally-distributed journal, Amoskeag. Faculty help students prepare work for submission to graduate programs, agents, and editors. Students on the main campus in Manchester spend classroom time with agents, editors, publicists, and visiting writers. Students attend workshops, readings, and networking events.

Our faculty includes nationally acclaimed writers. They host renowned visiting writers. Students can join the creative writing club and the New Hampshire Writers' Project, the only statewide literary organization for writers of all levels and genres, which is housed on the university's main campus in Manchester.

Students who wish to major in creative writing on the main campus in Manchester must submit a writing sample of 5-10 pages to the program coordinator. Students applying to the online program in creative writing must submit a sample to the online program.

Creative writing majors on the main campus in Manchester choose a concentration in fiction, a concentration in nonfiction, or no concentration. Online majors choose a concentration in fiction, nonfiction, poetry or screenwriting. Majors on the main campus who choose no concentration take workshops in three out of four genres. Majors on the main campus who choose a concentration in fiction or nonfiction focus on a long work in the chosen genre. Online majors focus on the chosen genre and take a course in writing for new media.

For majors on the main campus, the concentrations in fiction and nonfiction make it easier to complete a B.A. in Creative Writing and English in three years with coursework during summers. The concentrations can also help students write work samples strong enough to earn admission to the low-residency M.F.A. program. Students who finish a B.A. with a concentration in fiction or nonfiction in three years can earn both a B.A. and an M.F.A. over the course of five years, if they are accepted to the M.F.A. program in the third year of the B.A.

Program Outcomes

• Apply techniques and terminology essential to analyzing (and appreciating) literary form, genre, structure, and style
• Produce creative works in a variety of genres (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, screenwriting), employing the conventions and techniques of those genres
• Produce a body of advanced work in the student’s chosen genre, reflecting a culmination of the student’s workshop training and the beginning of professionalization

According to the Sales Education Foundation (SEF), more than 50% of business graduates enter a sales role upon graduation, and sales courses can make a big difference in future employment opportunities.2 Good thing SNHU’s Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Professional Sales has been recognized as a top 100 sales program in the country. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from professionals with real-world experience, participate in peer coaching, experience a sales management simulation to make real-world sales team leadership decisions and even participate in a local, national or international sales competition.

The Accounting/Finance degree offers students the course work they need to qualify for careers in the accounting or finance professions. The degree prepares graduates for meaningful employment in accounting, banking, corporate finance, insurance, investments and personal finance.

Program Outcomes

• Identify long-term corporate investment opportunities to increase shareholder value
• Apply theories of asset allocation, security analysis, & portfolio diversification to efficiently manage an investment portfolio
• Demonstrate knowledge of the rules and regulations for financial accounting and reporting and how they are established in a global economy
• Generate financial records and financial statements for internal and external users in accordance with applicable governing rules and regulations
• Analyze, interpret, and communicate financial and accounting information to various internal and external stakeholders

The marketing field encompasses activities related to: identifying needs of prospective customers, selecting a target market, designing a product, packaging, pricing, advertising, selling, distributing, and servicing products in both domestic and international markets. It is the driving force in business. Therefore, the degree to which companies are able to do it well and respond to customer needs and wants largely determines their success.

Southern New Hampshire University's Marketing Program integrates theory and application. Marketing majors also study general management, finance, organizational behavior, information technology and selected liberal arts courses, ensuring that students learn the tenets of marketing in concert with those disciplines. Domestic and international marketing internships and study abroad programs allow Marketing majors additional opportunities to link marketing theory with practice.

Students will also formulate an ePortfolio and a career portfolio which are included in the coursework of the marketing curriculum.

Program Outcomes

• Utilize primary and secondary data to determine the position of a product in the market
• Recommend strategies for maximizing both internal and external opportunities through the effective use of the marketing mix
• Develop strategic marketing plans in alignment with stated missions, objectives, and goals of the organizations
• Employ effective written and oral communication skills appropriate to the professional marketing context
• Apply legal and ethical principles to marketing activities
• Collaborate in cross-functional internal and external environments to ensure the creation, capture, and delivery of value

Southern New Hampshire University's Bachelor of Science in Justice Studies presents a systematic vision of the justice system and exposes its majors to the panoply of careers, theories and applications, agencies and institutions that comprise American justice. The B.S. in Justice Studies consists of a core and a series of tracks which allows students to tailor the program toward their career goals. The core lays out the essential knowledge base for Justice Studies majors and reviews the fundamentals of legal and social science research, provides overview courses on the system at large, and instructs on criminal law and correctional systems. The B.S. in Justice Studies emphasizes the full range of justice functions, from policing to corrections, from law to private sector justice. The B.S. in Justice Studies delivers the "professional" perspective in the educational environment, preparing students for future careers in the justice sector.

Program Outcomes

• Graduates of the Justice Studies program will be able to draw upon theory, research and historical perspective as professionals and apply such into their daily practice            
• Graduates of the Justice Studies program will be able to apply and demonstrate their academic and professional skills as effective communicators, critical and independent thinkers, and analytical problem solvers            
• Graduates of the Justice Studies program will be socially responsible citizens and professionals who are ethically informed and culturally aware           

 Analyzes effective managerial processes including the initiation, planning, execution and successful completion of a project. You’ll cover topics including project scope, timing, cost, quality, risk, resources, communications and best practices to manage stakeholder expectations. You’ll may also take a course that helps prepare you for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam – enhancing your marketability in the workforce.

• Demonstrate specialized knowledge in project management that builds upon and extends the core competencies of effective business administration

The Bachelor of Science in Business Administration concentration in Marketing introduces students to various professional areas within the fast-paced and ever evolving field of marketing. This concentration provides students with the opportunity to explore areas of marketing, through a business lens, in areas such as market research, social media marketing and communication, and consumer behavior.

Concentration Outcomes

• Utilize marketing principles to develop various aspects of the marketing mix to address challenges and achieve organizational goals

The Pure Mathematics Concentration gives students the mathematical skills and theory to work with the conceptual aspects of mathematics that are studied for their intellectual challenge and are not associated with direct applications.  

By earning your degree in Mathematics with a concentration in Pure Mathematics you’ll learn conceptual mathematical skills while completing theory-based coursework. This type of concentration is often studied for intellectual challenge as opposed to real world application. This concentration also qualifies as appropriate preparation for graduate programs in mathematics.

The BA in English with a concentration in Literature is designed for students interested in concentrated literary study, secondary education majors and other students seeking education-related careers such as college teaching or instructional design. In this concentration, students will immerse themselves and become well-versed in literature from multiple time periods and genres.