Weird (But Cool) College Majors. Chances are, if you have a passion, you can get a degree in the subject. And, if typical majors aren’t your thing, there are plenty of unusual majors to choose from. The following list includes some weird- but- cool college majors, along with an example of a college that offers it, details of what students in the field study and the jobs that students pursue after graduation, as listed on each example college’s website.(Please note that many of these aren’t the only schools which offer the academic subjects, just an example of one of the schools.)Check out the following unusual majors – perhaps your future calling is on the list! Adventure Education. Name of program or field of study. Search by Specific Criteria. Click on each drop-down, type into input box, use ctrl + click to select multiple criteria from. DEGREE Program Course Requirements. First Year – Fall Semester COMP 1101 Computer Fundamentals (3 cr) BIOL 1431 General Biology I (5 cr). Undergraduate Degrees Viticulture and Enology major in Integrated Plant Sciences. The Viticulture and Enology major in Integrated Plant Sciences is for students. Concepts in Wine Chemistry. The primary text since 1997 for scores of universities and winemakers in a dozen countries, Concepts in Wine Chemistry, by physical. News; Grape Management Course; Advanced Viticulture and Enology Workshops; Vineyard Establishment & Management; Grape/Wine Research Data; Oklahoma Wine Production/Enology. Allied Health Interested in becoming a Nurses Aide? Please call 910-296-2080 for more information. JSCC is dedicated to producing high quality, professional. The Western Colorado Peace Officers Academy (WCPOA) is a State of Colorado Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) certified academy. Our academy prepares the. Professors of Hochschule Geisenheim University present their work. They develop botanical fine particle filters for cities and by restoring ecosystems, they ensure. Career Technical Education (CTE) is organized educational programs offering sequences of courses directly related to preparing. What you study: Teaches “you how to use the Great Outdoors to expose children, adults and at- risk populations to challenging adventures, personal growth and self- discovery.” Where you can get the degree: Plymouth State University. Example courses: Rock Climbing Fundamentals, Canoe Paddling Fundamentals, Wilderness Expedition and Whitewater Kayaking. Job prospects: Working in outdoor education at a state or national park, Outdoor/adventure programs. Astrobiology. What you study: “The exploration of life outside of Earth and to the investigation of the origin and early evolution of life on Earth.”Where you can get the degree: University of Washington or Penn State. Example courses: Planetary Habitability, Astrobiology Field Experience. Job prospects: Astrobiology researcher, scientist or educator. Auctioneering. What you study: How to be an auctioneer, from learning the “auctioneer’s chant,” obtaining and appraising items to running an auction from start to finish. Where you can get the degree: Harrisburg Area Community College. Example courses: Audience Communications, Auctioneering Law, Procurement and Appraisal of Merchandise, Preparations for the Auction. Job prospects: You guessed it – an auctioneer. Bagpiping. What you study: Bagpiping, “a program of study where a person can get a complete grounding in music as well as specific instruction on the instrument.”Where you can get the degree: Carnegie Mellon University. Example courses: Studio, Theory, History. Job prospects: A bagpiper or teaching the bagpipes. Bakery Science. What you study: The degree program “trains students for administrative, research, production, and executive positions in the baking industry.” Where you can get the degree: Kansas State University. Example courses: Introduction to Grain Science and Industry, Cereal Science, Flour and Dough Testing, Baking Science. Job prospects: Careers within restaurants, caterers, hotels, clubs, food manufacturers, testing laboratories, and large and small bakeries. Beatles, Popular Music and Society. What you study: The degree program lets students “examine the significance of the music of The Beatles in the construction of identities, audiences, ethnicities and industries, and localities.” Where you can get the degree: Liverpool Hope University (UK)Example courses: Understanding. Popular Music, Musicology and The Beatles and Topics in History: Liverpool Job prospects: Popular music studies specialist, Beatles historian. Bowling Industry Management and Technology What you study: “Overall learning and preparation for employment” within the bowling industry. Where you can get the degree: Vincennes University. Example courses: Lane and Pinsetter Maintenance, Bowling Lanes Management, Pro Shop Operations and Instruction. Job prospects: Entry- level positions within the bowling industry in center management, sales, marketing, and technical fields. Citrus. What you study: Students learn about “planting, irrigating, weed management, pruning, fertilizers, pest identification and management, and other aspects of tree management working with our on- campus collection of many varieties of citrus trees.”Where you can get the degree: Florida Southern College. Example courses: Introduction to Citrus, Citrus Grove Management, Soil Science, Plants and Society and Plant Nutrition Job prospects: Large citrus production companies, grove service companies, agricultural cooperatives, juice processing plants, agrichemical and fertilizer companies and at citrus research facilities. Canadian Studies. What you study: The program “seeks to provide the student with an understanding of Canada.”Where you can get the degree: Duke University. Example courses: Canadian History, Canadian Culture, Canadian Literature and U. S.- Canadian Relations. Job prospects: Teaching at a university or college in Canada or the United States, museums or a government council. Chemical Hygiene & Safety. What you study: The program “emphasizes laboratory and experiential coursework to develop skills needed to be a professional chemical hygiene officer.”Where you can get the degree: West Virginia Wesleyan College. Example courses: Principles of Laboratory Safety, Chemical Hygiene Responsibilities, Personal Apparel and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), General Protocols Job prospects: Running a science lab, working in a lab as a chemical hygiene officer. Comic Art. What you study: “Comic art students are taught to gain command of line, color, and composition, as well as character development, storyboarding, and plot to create complex works that pull readers in.” Where you can get the degree: Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Example courses: History of Comic Art, Comic Media and Concepts, Comic Book Publishing: Print and web and Comic Storytelling Job prospects: Working at comic studios as a cartoonist, illustrator or author or in comic book art production. Diving Business and Technology What you study: Management of dive business along with “physics and physiology as applied to diving, emergency medicine and first aid for pressure related injuries, recompression chamber operation, mixed gas dive planning, and underwater photography.”Where you can get the degree: Florida Keys Community College. Example courses: Advanced Diving Theory and Practice, Intro to Marine Biology, Intro to Oceanography, Scuba Rescue and Emergency Medicine, Underwater Photography, Basic Seamanship. Job prospects: Divemaster, scuba instructor, commercial diver, research diver, underwater photojournalist, etc. Egyptology. What you study: Students “explore the histories, languages, cultures and sciences of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and their neighbors” and “will be exposed to the critical study of the ancient cultures of these regions (ca. B. C. E.–1. 00 C. E.) using the tools of archaeology, epigraphy, and historical inquiry.”Where you can get the degree: Brown University. Example courses: Imagining the Gods: Myths and Myth- making in Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Babylonian Magic and Medicine, Ancient Scientific Texts: Akkadian, Archaeology and Text. Job prospects: Egyptologist, historian, specialized archaeologist. Entertainment Engineering and Design What you study: Students study “engineering principles, new materials, new and emerging technologies, and traditional theatrical practices while still being able to recognize the artistic demands of the entertainment industry.” Where you can get the degree: University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Example courses: Multimedia Design, Design for Live Entertainment, History of Entertainment and Technology. Job prospects: An engineer in the entertainment industry (shows, casinos, etc.)1. Exercise and Movement Sciences What you study: “Involves the theory and application of movement science in health, fitness and disease prevention in diverse populations.” Where you can get the degree: University of Vermont. Example courses: Prevention & Care Athletic Injuries, Fundamentals of Nutrition, Exercise & Sport Psychology, Biomechanics of Human Movement, Fitness for Specific Populations. Job prospects: Health and fitness industry, corporate wellness, research labs, adaptive sports programs and community organizations. Family Enterprise What you study: The major emphasizes “self- awareness, family systems, utilizing family involvement as a strategic advantage and how to consult with family enterprises.” Where you can get the degree: Stetson University. Example courses: Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development, Managerial Issues in Family Enterprise, Family Enterprise Ownership: Emphasis on Legal, Estate, and Asset Protection Issues, Case Studies in Family Business Job prospects: Running a family business, a family business owner or working for a family business enterprise as a professional advisor. Farrier Science What you study: The art of horseshoeing. Where you can get the degree: Mesalands Community College. Example courses: Equine Anatomy and Physiology, Horseshoeing Theory, Blacksmithing. Job prospects: Self- employer farrier, equine industries, agricultural industries. Fermentation Sciences What you study: Wine and brewing from systems design and engineering to “understanding the social and cultural implications of food and beverage production.” Where you can get the degree: Appalachian State University. Example courses: Social Implications of Fermented Beverages, Viticulture: Vine Physiology and Vineyard Establishment, Brewing Science and Analysis, Sensory Analysis of Wine and Beer. Job prospects: Vineyards, wineries, breweries, distilleries, and biotechnology businesses. Floral Management What you study: “Involves sourcing, purchasing, distributing, marketing, designing with, and selling floricultural products. Students enrolled in this concentration are provided with courses in design and horticulture, balanced with business and sciences.” Where you can get the degree: Mississippi State University. Unusual Majors Your College Probably Didn't Offer. As about 1. 50 million college students make their way to campus this week—including arecord number of 2. U. S. And it’s not always in a traditional occupation. From beer to bowling and pot to pop culture, here are 3. THE BEATLESGetty Images. The College: Liverpool Hope University. Just because you think you’ve deciphered the meaning of “I Am the Walrus” doesn’t make you an expert on the Fab Four. Established in 2. The Beatles as a case study. Not surprisingly, you’ll need to travel to the band’s birthplace—sometimes called “The World Capital City of Pop”—to do it. Also not surprisingly: The program is the only one of its kind in the world. CANNABIS CULTIVATIONThinkstock. The College: Oaksterdam University. Leave it to California to open the country’s first cannabis college. Then again, considering the thriving—and legal—industry that exists for medicinal marijuana in The Golden State, it really only makes sense that there would be a trade school for the cannabis industry. And one where classes in the history, politics, and legalities of herb are taught alongside seminars on growing and methods of ingestion. But don’t be surprised if your classroom time gets interrupted by a raid by the Feds; that’s exactly what happened in April of 2. DEA, IRS, and U. S. Marshals Service agents showed up on the school’s doorstep. COMEDYThinkstock. The College: Humber College. Think you’re funny? Whip out your diploma and prove it. Toronto’s Humber College takes its laughs seriously with its Comedy: Writing and Performance program, aimed at helping sort of funny people become really funny people by perfecting their comedic timing and understanding of how the funny business works, utilizing a faculty of working comedians and putting on weekly shows at the nearby Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club and an industry showcase at Second City—all in the name of making it big in stand- up, improv, sketch comedy and/or screenwriting. FERMENTATION SCIENCESGetty Images. The College: Appalachian State University. As tempted as one might be to call this a degree in beer- making, there’s a lot more to a career in suds than cracking open a cold one. The official description of this B. S. SEXUALITYThinkstock. The College: San Francisco State University. A career in sex doesn’t have to come with an X rating. It’s academia at its most titillating. VITICULTURE and ENOLOGYGetty Images. The College: Cornell University. College- age connoisseurs who know the difference between a Zinfandel (good) and a White Zinfandel (bad) might be ripe for a career in wine—an industry where demand is outgrowing the supply of qualified professionals to oversee the vineyards that produce the best vino and manage the wineries that sell them. Translation: job security, kiddos! While Cornell students will face the unique challenges of growing grapes and making wine in a northeastern U. S. DECISION SCIENCESThinkstock. The College: Indiana University. A Ph. D in Decision Sciences is really the antithesis of being “undecided,” with doctoral candidates at IU amassing expertise in a range of quantitative methods in order to make business decisions at the highest level. These aren’t yes or no questions we’re dealing with; graduates emerge with the skills to apply research, data and analysis to solve problems in a range of precise disciplines, from finance to information technology. POPULAR CULTUREThe College: Bowling Green State University. And you thought all those hours spent binge- watching Arrested Development had no professional merit! The official pitch for BGSU’s B. A. FLORAL MANAGEMENTGetty Images. The College: Mississippi State University. Running a flower shop isn’t as easy as Janet made it look on Three’s Company, what with all the sourcing, purchasing, marketing, merchandising and selling that’s required. Floral Management students at MSU get an up- close look at what a career in floral retail, wholesale, design, styling or display gardening feels and smells like, courtesy of The University Florist, an on- campus flower shop owned and operated by the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences. AUCTIONEERINGThinkstock. The College: Harrisburg Area Community College. Do I hear 2. 0 credits? A first step toward becoming a licensed auctioneer in the state of Pennsylvania is completing the Auctioneering program at HACC, where students develop an eye for procuring the best merchandise for auction, utilizing the best appraisal sources and techniques, and developing that all- important auction “chant.” Going once, going twice. POULTRY SCIENCEGetty Images. The College: Texas A& MAs Jim Perdue would tell you, it takes a tough man (or woman) to make a tender chicken. Hence the need for an education in the science of poultry, where academics, research, and service play equally important parts in a career in this major agricultural commodity. The program’s wide- ranging curriculum includes courses in biology, chemistry, and zoology and such service- oriented topics as mathematics, public speaking, and technical writing. Bonus points for determining once and for all which came first, the chicken or the egg? ENTERTAINMENT ENGINEERING & DESIGNGetty Images. The College: University of Nevada, Las Vegas. A keen understanding of casino game design and engineering is as essential to the people who design the games in Vegas as it is to the pros who try to beat them. Which makes it all the more appropriate that Sin City is the setting for this B. S. Plus, students are never too far from a casino in which to ply their trade. TURF AND GOLF COURSE MANAGEMENTThinkstock. The College: University of Maryland. Golf courses require a lot of upkeep, so UMD offers a plant science degree in Turf and Golf Course Management to help train the greenskeepers of the future. TURFGRASS SCIENCEThinkstock. The College: Penn State University. For opportunities beyond the local country club, the more generalized B. S. Though the degree may sound like a walk in the park, courses lean toward the science side of the equation (biology, chemistry, and meteorology are required courses). FAMILY ENTERPRISEThinkstock. The College: Stetson University. Countless entrepreneurs have been warned about the dangers of doing business with friends—but family? Some of today’s biggest corporate success stories—including The Gap, Walmart, Ford, and Motorola—are technically “family businesses.” In De. Land, Florida, Stetson’s Family Enterprise Center has been teaching students the right (and wrong!) ways to mix business with relatives since 1. Topics of interest include personal, professional and leadership development and legal, estate and asset protection. CANADIAN STUDIESGetty Images. The Colleges: Duke University; Johns Hopkins University; SUNY Plattsburgh; University of Vermont. Canada looms large and expansive just north of the United States, but most of us are pretty uneducated about what the heck goes on there. Students who want to learn more about our neighbors to the north can absorb the culture, politics, and history of Canada through a Canadian Studies major at one of several universities. This sounds like possibly the only major in which there’s a slight chance you’ll have to watch Strange Brew as part of your coursework, unless you design your own Rick Moranis Studies major. EGYPTOLOGYGetty Images. The College: Brown University. We’re pretty sure that all of the great pyramids have been discovered, but on the off chance that there’s still a sphinx or two waiting to be stumbled upon, would- be Indiana Joneses would do well to have a degree in Egyptology. Established in 2. Brown’s Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies—which offers B. A. JAZZ STUDIESThinkstock. The Colleges: University of North Texas, East Carolina University & University of Louisville. For whatever reason, jazz seems to inspire college music departments to start majors more than its fellow musical genres. A number of colleges around the country offer degree programs in jazz studies. These programs usually include both playing jazz and studying its history, cultural significance, and major figures. BASSOONThinkstock. The College: The University of Arizona. After completing the basic requirements for a bachelor’s degree in instrumental studies, students at UA’s School of Music choose their melodic weapon of choice. And for some would- be musicians, that means a bassoon—that 1. PIANO PEDAGOGYThinkstock. The College: Belmont University. It may seem odd, since so many folks took their childhood piano lessons from someone who didn’t have collegiate training, but the B. Mus degree at Nashville’s Belmont University doesn’t sound like a bad career move from a stability standpoint; moms forcing their kids to take piano lessons is an economy- resistant tradition. Want to take that education one step further? The University of Oregon in Eugene offers advanced graduate degrees in the discipline. BOWLING INDUSTRY MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGYGetty Images. The College: Vincennes University. Being a pin monkey may be Homer Simpson’s unreachable dream, but you can make it your reality at Indiana’s first college, which offers the country’s only program in Bowling Industry Management and Technology. Required classes for this A. S. COSTUME TECHNOLOGYThinkstock. The College: De. Paul University. Much like film editors are to the movies, costume designers are the unsung heroes of the theater—the people upon whom the audience (unknowingly) relies to take them into a fantasy world. Needless to say, there’s a science to this talent that goes far beyond a flair for fashion. Costume Technology majors within De. Paul’s Theatre School will explore the world of costuming from a variety of disciplines, from art and architecture to ethics and business management. Draping, cutting and designing are, of course, part of the package, too. DIVING BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGYThinkstock. The College: Florida Keys Community College.
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