Our Design minor provides a unique opportunity to cultivate critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills. You'll delve into the fundamentals of design, including visual literacy, user experience, and innovative thinking. This minor is ideal for students in various disciplines, such as business, computer science, and communications. By applying design principles to your major field, you'll gain a competitive edge and approach challenges from a fresh perspective. This minor will equip you with the tools to think creatively, solve problems effectively, and communicate your ideas visually.
Students will develop strong critical thinking skills and be able to apply design thinking methodologies to solve complex problems, both within their major field and beyond.
Students will gain a deeper understanding of visual language and be able to communicate ideas effectively through visual means. This skill set will enhance their ability to create compelling presentations, reports, and other visual materials.
Students will cultivate innovative thinking skills and be able to generate creative solutions to design challenges. They will be able to think outside the box and approach problems from multiple perspectives.
Information Science minors at Ozarks develop an understanding of how data are collected, organized, stored, analyzed, and presented to improve organizational decision-making. Students learn to critically analyze problems and develop appropriate methodologies and solutions. Along the way, our minors explore data visualization, descriptive statistics, and information systems. The knowledge gained in this discipline will qualify most students for careers as computer network architects, computer systems analysts, database administrators and architects, and information security analysts.
Degree Outcomes
In the tradition of a Liberal Arts education, our minors become better writers, thinkers, communicators, and problem solvers.
The Information Science minor offers a range of knowledge and skills that greatly enhance other majors, such as Business, Mathematics, and Health Science.
Students who graduate with a minor in Information Science also pursue graduate school.
This minor is designed as the perfect combination for students to follow their dreams and desires. Whether it is music or psychology, this degree will provide sufficient knowledge to start and run a business. Entrepreneurship expands students' limitless capabilities, from being an employee to becoming the boss. Students will acquire basic accounting, economics, financing, management, and marketing knowledge.
Degree Outcomes
Students learn the basics to start and manage their own businesses.
Students apply the concepts to make a competitive business.
Students learn how to obtain a profitable path for a successful business.
The Marketing minor introduces the fundamental marketing concepts of product, place, price, and promotion. Courses such as Digital Marketing deepen students' knowledge of marketing.
A Marketing minor strengthens and complements many LENS programs. For example, an Art Major can use a Marketing minor to help them promote their work to studios and clients. A Health Science student who desires to be a physical therapist can use social media strategies to engage with existing and new clients.
Regardless of which major(s) students pursue, knowledge of Marketing will help students in their personal and professional lives. Understanding marketing helps students become better consumers of goods and services.
Degree Outcomes
Students learn about the fundamental marketing concepts of product, place, price, and promotion.
Students learn how companies market goods and services to consumers.
Students incorporate marketing concepts into non-marketing career paths that benefit from a knowledge of marketing skills.
Economics is the discipline that seeks to understand and explain why people make financial decisions. The discipline focuses on the actions of players as large as a national economy and as small as an individual. Understanding rational economic behavior influences business decision making—from marketing and pricing decisions to resource allocation questions--and governmental actions and policies—from tax policy to allocation of government funding. This minor will benefit students who intend to pursue graduate degrees in business, law, or political science.
Degree Outcomes
An understanding of the fundamental drivers of behavior of individuals and distinct companies.
An understanding of the fundamental drivers of decision-making by governmental units and large industries.
A basic understanding of the societal impacts of government and corporate decisions.
The Minor in Coaching Athletics is currently housed in the division of education and is intended for students seeking credentialing for coaching/supervising athletics either through non-traditional routes to teacher licensure or other coaching related careers.
Degree Outcomes
Provide quality training that will have a positive impact on coaching performance.
Establish benchmarks for hiring quality coaches into the athletic program.
As a student who minors in psychology, you will complement your major by integrating the scientific, behavior and social domains of psychology to understanding human behavior. You will learn how people cognitively process their personal and business relationships through group process interactions and brain science approaches with experience gained through laboratory and clinical service. The primary goal for our students is to help you choose a career that provides opportunities for you to have a productive and meaningful life.
Degree Outcomes
You will learn the science of human behavior and apply it to any career in fields such as criminal justice, human services or business management.
Developing critical thinking skills in psychology courses such as social psychology will aid you to effectively evaluate the quality of the source and potential bias of information and aid in any profession such as being a case manager or communications relationship director.
Becoming familiar with psychological concepts, language and theories will create opportunities for you to professionally communicate with others in any professional field and especially as a case worker, art therapist, social worker, teacher or sports psychologist.
Mathematics is a field that will enhance and complement any other area of study. The ability to critically think and problem solve is an advantageous skill for anyone and a minor in mathematics will promote and build this talent.
Degree Outcomes
A minor in mathematics can open doors with future employers and is a strong and useful component for gaining an advantage in the job market.
Students with majors in areas such as business, economics, and finance can bolster their resumes with a minor in mathematics. This additional benefit will be an attractive feature with many future employers.
The ability to problem solve and think critically is a vital skill in any area and with this aptitude coming from a quantitative perspective, then it might prove just the touch to grab that much sought after position in your major field of study.
The Health Science minor provides a broad introduction to the physical, psychological and economic impact and importance of healthy living. This minor is designed to be comprehensive to allow students to experience the entire range of health topics to better serve their educational interests during their time in college and after they graduate.
Degree Outcomes
The blend of introductory and advanced courses helps guide students' interest in a variety of fields ranging from social work, disease research and community health.
A common step for many graduates is to continue their education at Exercise Science and Public & Community Health graduate programs.
Courses prepare students for Allied Health Professions programs (physical therapy, occupational therapy, physician's assistant, etc).
Studying the impact that humans have on the environment, and the impact that the environment has on humans requires a wealth of knowledge in many fields. In the Environmental Studies major you will be able to tailor your degree to fit your own area of interests. You will take classes in the natural sciences, the social sciences and even literature during your quest to understand your place in the environment. Our students are actively engaged in environmental leadership. Whether it is planning Earth Day Celebrations, participating in stream clean-up projects, or working on habitat restoration projects Ozarks Environmental Studies students make a difference.
Degree Outcomes
Students choose from a wide range of career paths and can work for a variety of organizations including the National Parks System, non-profits, and environmental lawyers.
While at Ozarks, they have pursued internships and studies abroad from traveling to the Maasai Mara to internships in outdoor adventure and hospitality in Ireland.
They have participated in research projects from studying sea turtles to studying the Buffalo and White Rivers.
