School of the Arts
The School of Arts offers majors and minors that allow for the practice and cultivation of creative skill and imagination in visual and performing formats. Majors in this School are offered by the Departments of Art and Design, English & Creative Writing, Music, and Theatre. Classes build students’ technical skills, expressive fluency, and knowledge of the traditions and works of art within each specific major. They also use a combination of studio and traditional classroom experiences to build students’ critical thinking, collaborative abilities, written and oral communication, and professional discipline. Through rigorous study of history, theory, and practice, students prepare for careers as artists, practitioners, teachers, and scholars. Traditional outcomes for majors within the school include professional employment opportunities in a wide range of fields, admittance to top graduate schools, and a variety of postgraduate opportunities.
School of Humanities
The School of Humanities offers majors and minors that study human societies and their cultures, including inquiry into human values and human expression. Majors in this School span traditional liberal arts and professional programs, and they are offered by the Departments of Communications, Education, English & Creative Writing, History, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Philosophy, and Religious Studies. Classes in these majors and minors build students’ critical thinking, written and oral communication, and professional discipline using experiential learning, collaboration, and application of theory to meet rigorous academic expectations and to prepare for work in a variety of fields after graduation. Traditional outcomes for majors within the school include professional employment opportunities, admittance to top graduate schools and professional schools (law, medicine or related fields), and a variety of postgraduate opportunities.
School of Natural & Social Sciences
The School of Natural & Social Sciences offers majors and minors in the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology and Anthropology. Interdisciplinary majors in criminal justice, ecology, environmental studies, international studies, legal studies, neuroscience, and public policy allow students to study topics that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. Our 3+2 joint engineering programs allow students to earn a bachelor’s degree from Susquehanna University in chemistry, computer science, mathematics, or physics and an engineering degree from one of three partner programs. Secondary education certification is available for majors in biology, mathematics, physics, political science, psychology, and sociology. Classes across the school incorporate experiential learning, including hands-on lab and field components, simulations, field trips, and internship opportunities. Majors within the school typically require a senior capstone independent research project or internship experience. Natural & Social Sciences graduates pursue a wide variety of pathways after graduation including employment in the for-profit, non-profit, and government sectors, and graduate or professional school.
Sigmund Weis School of Business
The Degree Programs
The Sigmund Weis School of Business offers the Bachelor of Science degree with majors in accounting, economics, business analytics, entrepreneurship and corporate innovation, finance, international business, luxury brand marketing & management, management, marketing, professional sales, and real estate. All majors in the Sigmund Weis School complete the university Central Curriculum courses, the business foundation courses and courses required for the major. Students who do not enter the university as majors in business may transfer to the Sigmund Weis School from other majors within the university. For students transferring within the university, the requirements for consideration of admission to the Sigmund Weis School are good academic standing and approval of the appropriate department head.
The academic programs for the first two years are very similar for each of the majors. This allows students in the Sigmund Weis School to wait until their second year to decide on their majors, or to switch between different business majors, though many choose their majors earlier.
Prerequisite Requirements
A student must earn a grade of C- or better in all listed prerequisite courses.
Internship
An internship is an experiential opportunity that may be undertaken in a business, government or nonprofit organization. An internship can be completed either for academic credit or not for academic credit. Enrolling for internship credit includes coordination by a faculty member and by the host organization supervisor. Internships typically provide exposure to career options, a valuable frame of reference for coursework and, most important, an experience base that is a significant competitive advantage for graduates in seeking employment. Increasingly, employers use internships as extended interviews and restrict career-entry offers largely to the internship pool. The Sigmund Weis School strongly encourages an internship or equivalent work experience for all students before the senior year. Students may identify their own internship opportunities or request assistance from the Career Development Center. The school, through the Stein Fellowship Program, also offers international internship opportunities each summer; these cover all expenses and include a stipend.
The London Program
The Sigmund Weis School of Business offers a London program for junior Weis School majors. Courses are taught by Sigmund Weis School faculty and by adjunct faculty from the London academic community. Fall or Spring semester students earn a full semester of Susquehanna University credit designed for the normal junior-level schedule including a four-credit internship. A shorter version of the program, including internship experiences may be offered during summer and/or winter break. Students participating in the London Program complete a preparatory course during the semester before attending the London Program and a reflection course during the semester following the London Program to satisfy the University’s cross-cultural requirements.
Elective Courses for Non-Business Students
Many students whose major fields of study are not in business choose to take business courses as electives. The Sigmund Weis School of Business welcomes these students and suggests the following courses: ECON-105 Elements of Economics, ACCT-200 Financial Accounting, ACCT-210 Legal Environment, MGMT-202 Business Statistics, and MKTG-280 Marketing. Please note that all students must satisfy course prerequisites. Also, students who have not declared either a major or minor within the Weis School may not take more than 20 semester hours of courses from the departments of management and accounting without permission from the dean of the Sigmund Weis School.
Interdisciplinary Programs
Susquehanna University offers several interdisciplinary programs that facilitate learning across Susquehanna’s schools and departments. These may be minors or additional areas of study. These programs emerge from the collaboration of several departments.