Bachelor’s in Professional Studies Degree Requirements
About the Degree
The Bachelor’s in Professional Studies degree is designed for students seeking to build their professional “tool-kit” by developing widely applicable skills in critical and ethical thinking, written and oral communication, business and collaboration, Artificial Intelligence, and quantitative analysis. The degree helps students build critical skills that are consistently named as top competencies by employers in the United States and recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as crucial for employability training.
Degree designed for:
- Incoming, first-time full-time students
- Students transferring in from 2- or 4- year institutions
- Current students changing their major
- Students interested in a skills-based double major
Degree Plan
General Education Requirements (42 credits)
All students are required to complete the General Education Requirements in fulfillment of their Bachelor degree requirements
Oral Communication / Public Speaking (6 credits)
Select from:
- COMM_2016 Professional Communications in Healthcare
- COMM_4008 Healthcare Conversations
- SPCH_1155 Public Speaking
- THEA 2204 Intermediate Acting
- THEA_1110 Introduction to Acting
Professional Writing (3 credits)
Select from:
- CJUS_2100 – Professional Legal Writing
- THEAH_2255 / CRE – Playwriting and Dramatic Structure (CRE)
- WRISC_2201 – Scientific Writing
- WRIT_2101 – Intro to Prof & Tech Writing
- WRIT_2103 – Digital Writing & Multimedia
- WRIT_3001 – Advanced Writing Workshop
- ANIM_1300 – Writing for Animation
- ANIM_1500 – Storyboarding
- ANIM_1400 – Character Design
Inquiry and Analysis (6 credits)
Select from:
- ART 1137 History of Fashion Design
- ART 1832 – Alternative Art
- ARTH 1206 Art Hist: Renaissance to Today
- ARTH 2154 Creativity as Practice
- ARTH_3219 Art in America
- CGDH 2020 History of Graphic Design
- CINE_1360 History of Television
- COMM 2205 Social Impact of Social Media
- EDUC_1108 Seminar: Prof Practice
- GEOG_1102 Geography and World Issues
- GOVT 1200 Introduction to Law
- GOVT_2071 Gender & Public Policy
- GOVT_2216 Current Events in Politics
- GOVT_3500 Social Analysis
- HIST_2203 Modern African History
- HIST_2217 American Soc & Intell History
- HUMN/PHIL_1551 AI and Critical Thinking
- HUMN_1100 Intro to Methods in the Humanities
- LITS_1100 Intro to Literary Analysis
- MUSIH 1021 Popular Music and Jazz
- MUSIH_1108 Elvis to Jlo: Pop Music 50 Yr
- MUSIH_2212 Beethoven to Beyonce
- PSYC_1201 General Psychology
- SOCI 2810 Social Problems and the Contemporary World
- SOCI 2901 World on the Move: Contemporary Migrations
- THEAH_1201 Theater through the Ages
Quantitative Reasoning (3 credits)
Select from:
- ACCT_2021 Intro Financial Accounting
- CGD 3303 Web Design
- CHEM_1118+ 1119 Forensic Science Lecture and Lab
- CSCI_3311 Python for Data Science
- ECON_2001 Intro to Microeconomics
- INTEC_1111 Information and Technological Literacy
- MIS_1045 Information Technology for Business
- MUSIC_2221 Fundamentals of Music Theory
- PSYC_2210 Psychological Statistics
- PSYC_2211 Research Methods
- PSYC_2234 Social Psychology
Leadership, Ethics, and Cultural Competency (3 credits)
Select from:
- ARTH_1402 – Museums of New York
- CINE_2360 – Culture & History on Film
- COMM_1105 – Intercultural Communications
- COMM_3838 – Media Ethics
- COMM_2206 – Managing Social Media
- COMM_2102 – International Communication
- CREW_2017 – Health/Healing-Telling Story
- CREW_2022 – Storytelling & Social Justice
- EDUC_3601 – Equity, Ethics and Education
- GOVT_2410 – Politics, Govt, Ethics, Healthcare
- GOVT_2020 – The American Presidency
- GOVT_2200 – Comparative Constitutional Law
- HUMN_2710 – Traditions of Medicine and Health
- HUMN_2700 – Medical Humanities
- LITS_2200 – Approaches to World Literature
- MGMT_2600 – Organizational Behavior
- ORGS_1100 – Ethical Issues in Social Institute
- PHIL_1440 – Bio-Medical Ethics
- PHIL_2008 – Ethical Issues in the Movies
- PHIL_2103 – Philosophy of AI
- SOCI_4200 – AI, Technology and Social Change
- SPAD_2015 – Team Development
- UNIV_2001 – Cross-Cultural Perspectives
- CGDH_2216 – Design for Social Responsibility
Experiential Learning (6-10 credits)
Select from:
- Apprenticeship (1 at 4000 level)
- APEX 3943 FDU Global Career Accelerator OR Internship (1 at 2000- or 3000- level)
- CGD_2218 / FILM_2218 / COMM_2218 – Content Creation for New Media
- Community-based learning (1 at 1000-level)
- MGMT_3620 – Leadership/Personal Development
- Multi-year Portfolio (with reflection on NACE competencies and building professional network)
- OLSN_4001 – Senior Project in Artificial Intelligence
Free electives (47-51 credits)
Contact Information
Stacie Lents, Professor of Theater and Communication
Lents@fdu.edu
Director, Professional Studies