Areas of Study

Western State Colorado University academic programs promote intellectual maturity and personal growth in its students and graduates citizens prepared to assume constructive roles in local, national, and global communities. The University provides students with a solid foundation of skills in written and spoken communication, problem solving, critical thinking, and creativity. Our programs encourage a breadth and depth of knowledge, which will serve as a foundation for a professional career or graduate study, and an appreciation of values appropriate to a liberally educated individual.

Undergraduate

  • Anthropology
  • Art Program

    including programs in:

    • Art Education
    • Art History and Theory
    • Graphic Design
    • Three-dimensional Art: Ceramics
    • Three-dimensional Art: Jewelry
    • Three-dimensional Art: Sculpture
    • Two-dimensional Art: Painting
    • Two-dimensional Art: Photography
    • Two-dimensional Art: Printmaking
  • Biology

    including programs in:

    • Cell Biology & Pre-medicine
    • Environmental Biology & Ecology
    • Pre-Allied Health
    • Wildlife Biology
  • Business School
    • Accounting

      Including programs in:

      • Financial Analysis
      • Professional Accounting
    • Business Administration
    • Business Administration and Environment & Sustainability (coordinated major)
    • Economics

      including a program in...

      • Secondary Education Licensure
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Latin American Business
    • Management
    • Marketing
    • Professional Land & Resource Management (PLRM)
    • Resort Management
  • Chemistry

    including programs in:

    • Secondary Education Licensure
    • Biochemistry
  • Communication Arts

    ​​including programs in: 

    • Film Studies
    • Strategic Communication
    • Theatre & Performance Studies
  • Computer Science
  • Criminal Justice
  • Education

    including a program in:

    • Elementary Education Licensure (with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies/Liberal Arts)
    • K-12 Licensure in Art Education, Music Education, Physical Education, and Spanish
    • Secondary Licensure in Biology, Chemistry, Economics, English, Geology, History,Mathematics and Politics & Government (with degrees in the content field)
  • English

    including a program in:

    • Secondary Education Licensure
    • Creative Writing
    • Wordhorde - Creation and Presentation of Spoken and Written Word
  • Environment & Sustainability

    including programs in:

    • Business Administration & Environment and Sustainability (coordinated major)
    • Water Studies
    • Graduate program: Master in Environmental Management
  • Environmental Science (Minor)
  • Exercise & Sport Science

    including a program in:

    • Exercise Science: Clinical
    • Exercise Science: Health-Fitness
    • K-12 Physical Education
    • Sport & Fitness Management
    • Sport Psychology (minor)
  • Extended Studies

    Extended Studies Programs:

    • Outward Bound
    • International Wilderness Leadership School
    • NOLS National Outdoor Leadership School
    • NOLS Wilderness Medicine Institute
    • SOLO Wilderness Medicine
    • Colorado Wilderness Emergency Medicine Institute
    • MED Mountain ED and Development
    • The Institute for Applied Sustainability
    • Anake Outdoor School Program
    • Alderleaf Wilderness School
    • Boulder Outdoor Survival School
    • Sea State
    • Cottonwood Institute Program
  • First Year Seminar
  • General Education
  • Geography & Geospatial Analysis

    Including a program in: 

    • Geospatial Analysis
  • Geology

    including a program in:

    • Geoarchaeology
    • ​Geology & Geospatial Analysis
    • Secondary Education Licensure in Earth-Space Science
    • Petroleum Geology
  • History Program

    including a program in:

    • Secondary Education Licensure
  • Interdisciplinary Studies/Liberal Arts
  • Latin American Studies
  • Mathematics

    including a program in:

    • Computer Science
    • Secondary Education Licensure
    • Actuarial Science
    • Data Analytics Minor
  • Music

    including programs in:

    • Music Business
    • Music Education K-12 Licensure
    • Music Technology Minor
  • PEAK
  • Philosophy
  • Physics
  • Politics & Government

    including programs in:

    • Secondary Education Licensure
    • Global Studies
    • Pre-Law
  • Psychology

    including a program in:

    • Clinical, Counseling and School Psychology
    • Experimental Psychology
  • Recreation & Outdoor Education

    including a program in:

    • Outdoor Environmental Education
    • Outdoor Leadership
  • Sociology

    including a program in:

    • Criminal Justice