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Learning Outcomes

Northern Arizona University and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences offers this degree as a means for students to build their career desires into a degree plan.

Students in the Bachelor of University Studies (BUS) degree program will gain:

  • the intellectual and practical skills of written/oral communication to engage in perspective-taking
  • skills in analytic reasoning/critical thinking utilizing structural knowledge related to a problem or topic
  • skills in conducting interdisciplinary research integrating and applying knowledge and modes of thinking drawn from two or more disciplines
  • the capacity to construct a summative project, paper, performance or application that synthesizes research, with scholarship and techniques from liberal studies, diversity, and their selected fields (at least two)

Students in the BUS capstone course will gain:

  • perspective-taking through written and oral communication
  • structural knowledge through analytic reasoning and critical thinking
  • skills in conducting and applying interdisciplinary research in a real world setting
  • a comprehensive understanding of a problem or project, challenge or research question through an interdisciplinary approach

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