Bachelor of Arts in Applied Humanities

University of Arizona

Applied Humanities: Business Administration Emphasis

Learn to solve the business problems of the future in the Applied Humanities' Business Administration emphasis. Combining the fundamental concepts of business administration and entrepreneurial leadership with the collaborative, global, intercultural, and future-oriented practices of the humanities, this emphasis-capped with a public or private internship-prepares you for working in emerging fields connected to national and international business administration.

Applied Humanities: Fashion Studies Emphasis

Interested in a career in the fashion industry? Want to express your sense of style while developing your creative, interpersonal, and business skills? Curious about fashion retailing, emerging fashion markets, and producing and marketing fashion ethically and sustainably, as well as the relationships between human culture and fashion? More than just seasonal trends, fashion is a cultural language, economic powerhouse, and artistic force felt worldwide. In the Applied Humanities' Fashion Studies emphasis, you'll acquire the tools you need to enter and shape the fashion industry of today and tomorrow.

Applied Humanities: Game Studies Emphasis

Develop the knowledge and skills you'll need to understand and work with the world's most popular medium, opening career doors in the global game industry, game and media journalism, digital humanities, new media policy, finance, law, entrepreneurship, digital culture studies, and related fields.

Applied Humanities: Medicine Emphasis

Applied Humanities: Plant Studies Emphasis

Applied Humanities: Public Health Emphasis

Want to make a difference in the health of your community and beyond? In the Bachelor of Arts in Applied Humanities with an emphasis in Public Health you'll learn how to design and implement evidence-based, culturally appropriate, and sustainable solutions to address the world's health challenges and inequities

Applied Humanities: Rural Leadership and Renewal Emphasis

Rural communities routinely face a multitude of challenges, from economic stagnation, population decline, and environmental degradation, to public health crises, persistent systemic racism, and, in the case of many indigenous peoples, the continued effects of a long history of willful neglect. In the Rural Leadership & Renewal emphasis, you'll learn how to create opportunities for overcoming these challenges through innovation in the public and applied humanities, agricultural production, e-commerce, environmental entrepreneurship, and sustainable tourism. In the process, you'll develop skills in project planning, community enrichment, environmental stewardship, entrepreneurial strategy, innovation literacy, and intercultural competence.

Applied Humanities: Spatial Organization and Design Thinking Emphasis

Design is all around us: from the height of a street curb to the plastic lid on your coffee cup, invisible choices were made that shape how you live. What choices would you make if you could design the world around you? The Bachelor of Arts in Applied Humanities with an emphasis in Spatial Organization & Design Thinking provides an innovative approach to understanding and affecting the physical world, bringing a humanities perspective to the future of the built environment. The program offers courses in sustainability, digital media, fabrication technology, and more, preparing you for jobs that communicate about-and effect change in-buildings, cities, and landscapes. This degree can also be a stepping stone to graduate studies in design, architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture.

CAREER FIELDS

Epidemiology

Healthcare

Journalism

Medicine

Nonprofit

Architecture

Conservation

Materials design

Sustainability

Urban planning