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2025-2026 Undergraduate Bulletin
University Studies (B.S.)
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Location: Ellington, Room 206
Phone: 931-221-1021
Website: https://www.apsu.edu/programs/index.php
Description of Major
The APSU University Studies Major is designed for those who have completed an associate’s degree or anyone with 60 earned college credits and who has not completed another bachelor’s degree. It is a non-licensure degree option that allows flexibility for students maintaining family, military, and employment obligations and is broad-based to allow for a more individualized approach to degree completion and/or pursuit of two or more minors. The student completes one the following seven concentrations: Education (Non-Licensure), Health, Humanities, Multi-Disciplinary, Organization Administration and Supervision, Social & Behavioral Sciences, and STEM.
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Program CIP Code
16.24.0101.02 Program Student Learning Outcomes
Military Operations Concentration - Think Critically - through the inquiry, analysis, and comprehensive exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion.
- Research - by recognizing when there is a need for information and be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively and responsibly use and share that information for the problem at hand.
- Integrate Learning - by understanding that knowledge and skills build across the curriculum and co-curriculum, from making simple connections among ideas and experiences to synthesizing and transferring learning to new, complex situations within and beyond the campus.
- Creatively Solve Problems - through designing, evaluating and implementing a strategy to answer an open-ended question or achieve a desired goal.
- Communicate - in writing, by developing and expressing ideas in the professional writing style of their concentration, using appropriate technologies and in speech, by preparing and delivering purposeful oral presentations designed to increase knowledge, to foster understanding, or to promote change in the listeners’ attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors.
- Ready to enter the workforce by effectively framing their skills, knowledge, and experience gained through their concentration in a professional manner appropriate to their career path.
Multi-Disciplinary Concentration - Students will show that they were able to effectively navigate through the Library’s databases and evaluate selected peer reviewed journal articles which support their research.
- Students will create an oral presentation to showcases the student has leaned the necessary skills to organize and deliver a central message through a presentation.
- Students will show they have developed the skills necessary to create or critique a professional resume as well as showcase career and professional readiness.
- Students will be able to evaluate their skills at interviewing by completing the mock interview through Career Services.
Survey of Learning Concentration - Think Critically - through the inquiry, analysis, and comprehensive exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion.
- Research - by recognizing when there is a need for information and be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively and responsibly use and share that information for the problem at hand.
- Integrate Learning - by understanding that knowledge and skills build across the curriculum and co-curriculum, from making simple connections among ideas and experiences to synthesizing and transferring learning to new, complex situations within and beyond the campus.
- Creatively Solve Problems - through designing, evaluating and implementing a strategy to answer an open-ended question or achieve a desired goal.
- Communicate - in writing, by developing and expressing ideas in the professional writing style of their concentration, using appropriate technologies and in speech, by preparing and delivering purposeful oral presentations designed to increase knowledge, to foster understanding, or to promote change in the listeners’ attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors.
- Ready to enter the workforce by effectively framing their skills, knowledge, and experience gained through their concentration in a professional manner appropriate to their career path.
Survey of Health Concentration - Students will show that they were able to effectively navigate through the Library’s databases and evaluate selected peer reviewed journal articles which support their research.
- Students will create an oral presentation to showcases the student has leaned the necessary skills to organize and deliver a central message through a presentation.
- Students will show they have developed the skills necessary to create or critique a professional resume as well as showcase career and professional readiness.
- Students will be able to evaluate their skills at interviewing by completing the mock interview through Career Services.
Survey of Humanities Concentration - Students will show that they were able to effectively navigate through the Library’s databases and evaluate selected peer reviewed journal articles which support their research.
- Students will create an oral presentation to showcases the student has leaned the necessary skills to organize and deliver a central message through a presentation.
- Students will show they have developed the skills necessary to create or critique a professional resume as well as showcase career and professional readiness.
- Students will be able to evaluate their skills at interviewing by completing the mock interview through Career Services.
Survey of Organizational Administration and Supervision Concentration - Students will show that they were able to effectively navigate through the Library’s databases and evaluate selected peer reviewed journal articles which support their research.
- Students will create an oral presentation to showcases the student has leaned the necessary skills to organize and deliver a central message through a presentation.
- Students will show they have developed the skills necessary to create or critique a professional resume as well as showcase career and professional readiness.
- Students will be able to evaluate their skills at interviewing by completing the mock interview through Career Services.
Survey of Scientific Thought Concentration - Students will show that they were able to effectively navigate through the Library’s databases and evaluate selected peer reviewed journal articles which support their research.
- Students will create an oral presentation to showcases the student has leaned the necessary skills to organize and deliver a central message through a presentation.
- Students will show they have developed the skills necessary to create or critique a professional resume as well as showcase career and professional readiness.
- Students will be able to evaluate their skills at interviewing by completing the mock interview through Career Services.
Survey of Social and Behavioral Sciences Concentration - Students will show that they were able to effectively navigate through the Library’s databases and evaluate selected peer reviewed journal articles which support their research.
- Students will create an oral presentation to showcases the student has leaned the necessary skills to organize and deliver a central message through a presentation.
- Students will show they have developed the skills necessary to create or critique a professional resume as well as showcase career and professional readiness.
- Students will be able to evaluate their skills at interviewing by completing the mock interview through Career Services.
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