Undergraduate - UMUC Europe

UMUC Bachelor’s Degrees
UMUC Bachelor’s Degrees
Bachelor of Science (BS) and Bachelor of Arts (BA)
University of Maryland University College offers a comprehensive undergraduate program which features courses from many academic
subject areas and bachelor’s degree programs involving 23 majors and 35 minors. It is most feasible for UMUC students in Europe to
complete bachelor’s degrees in the following majors: accounting, business administration, communication studies, computer and information
science, computer studies, English, environmental management, general studies, history, humanities, human resource management,
information systems management, management studies, marketing, psychology, and social science.
It is most feasible for UMUC students in Europe to complete the following minors: accounting, business administration, business law and
public policy, business supply chain management, communication studies, computer studies, customer service management, economics,
English, environmental management, finance, government and politics, history, humanities, human resource management, international
business management, management studies, marketing, mathematical sciences, psychology, sociology, strategic and entrepreneurial
management, and women’s studies.
While these are the most feasible baccalaureate majors and minors in Europe, students at virtually every location, as in UMUC-Asia and
UMUC-Stateside, may want to take a combination of online (distance education) and traditional classes to complete their major/minor
requirements and even their bachelor’s degree. As it is, 17 of the majors and 21 of the minors are available entirely online as of August 2003
and more will be brought online. Thus, through a combination of appropriate online classes and traditional courses (to include those taken
previously with UMUC-Asia and/or UMUC-Stateside), students can complete any UMUC bachelor’s degree through study with
UMUC-Europe. Requirements for degrees vary according to the majors and minors. The requirements that all candidates for the
bachelor’s degree must meet are summarized in the following sections.
Expectations
UMUC aims to produce graduates who are well-prepared to be
responsible citizens of the global society as well as effective
participants in the complex, fast-changing world of work. A
bachelor’s degree from UMUC offers a multidimensional
experience, combining a solid educational foundation with crosscurricular
breadth as well as focused study in an academic
discipline. Through that experience, UMUC graduates develop
and demonstrate the hallmarks of the educated person: intellectual
ability, curiosity, and flexibility; fundamental skills in reasoning,
analysis, and expression; understanding of the principles of
scientific and intellectual inquiry; awareness of global and historical
context; and civic and ethical responsibility.
UMUC demands that students demonstrate the ability to learn
and to apply that learning to career and life experience. The
UMUC degree begins with basic intellectual tools, ensuring
through the general education requirements that students are
able to:
communicate effectively, orally and in writing;
reason mathematically;
examine and critically assess aesthetic, historical, and cultural
works reflecting the variety of human thought and cultural
achievement;
comprehend the nature, techniques, and limits of science
and the social and behavioral sciences;
use libraries and other information resources to locate, evaluate,
and use needed information effectively; and
understand information technology and apply it productively.
Cross-curricular requirements, promoted throughout the
curriculum both by specific courses and by integration into
all programs, build the student’s ability to analyze, synthesize,
and integrate knowledge, perspectives, and techniques.
The cross-curricular initiatives in effective writing, fluency
in information technology, historical and international
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perspectives, civic responsibility, and information literacy ensure
that students are able to:
define problems, identify appropriate resources, and use
information efficiently;
understand information technology, and use it productively;
think critically and communicate effectively;
function in professional roles requiring an appreciation and
understanding of the interdependency among all disciplines
in the global workplace;
put learning in the context of historical events and
achievements through time; and
function responsibly as adult citizens of the world, engaging
and negotiating different perspectives and exercising ethical
judgment in their personal and professional lives.
In pursuit of an academic major (and minor), the UMUC student
acquires mastery of a considerable body of knowledge in a specific
subject area or group of related subjects, with the focused
exploration of an academic subject through a major course of
study. Each major has clearly articulated objectives for the
knowledge, skills, and abilities a student will achieve in completing
the major.
Requirements
In general, the UMUC degree requirements that apply to a
student are those that were in effect when the student began
continuous enrollment in any public institution of higher
education in Maryland, including UMUC. If a student has not
been continuously enrolled, the requirements that apply are those
in effect at UMUC when the student resumes continuous
enrollment. To be considered continuously enrolled, degreeseeking
students must be, or have been, enrolled at a Maryland
public institution of higher education and have had no more
than two sequential years of nonenrollment. When a continuously
enrolled student chooses to change degree programs, the student
may be subject to the degree requirements in effect at the time of
the change.
2003/2004Undergraduate Catalog