The Baylor English department is a diverse community of faculty, staff, undergraduate students, and graduate students who share a love for language. We’re interested in what language can tell us about who we are as people and how it can help us be agents of good in the world. We divide our research and courses into three main categories: Literature, Linguistics, and Professional Writing and Rhetoric.
The entrepreneurship major offers a unique learning experience to students who aspire to start or secure employment in a business having high growth potential. The major helps students to identify viable career options in entrepreneurship, expand their conceptual knowledge of the entrepreneurship process, and develop a repertoire of venture management skills and techniques. Course work culminates in the development of an actual business plan designed to launch the student’s entrepreneurial career.
Environmental Health Science is the study of how the environment impacts different areas. These areas include human health, disease and natural resources. Environmental health professionals are best known for their efforts to ensure safe water, food and air quality and sanitary conditions.
Exercise Physiology prepares students for a number of career opportunities related to the wellness consciousness of the general population. Available courses include:
- Research Methods and Design in Exercise Science
- Exercise and Sports Nutrition
- Sports Psychology
- Sociology of Sport
- Biomechanics
The Film & Digital Media Department offers undergraduate and graduate study in film, video, audio, and new media production, as well as screenwriting, media studies, media effects, and media management.
:Finance is the study and practice of decision-making to acquire and manage real and financial assets for the purpose of creating and maintaining economic (market) value. The finance curriculum consists of two main areas of study—corporate finance and investments¬—with electives in commercial banking, entrepreneurial finance, futures and options, international finance, risk management, and short-term financial management.
Research in the Department of Geosciences includes a wide range of topics and disciplines in Earth Sciences including Biogeosciences, Energy Geosciences, Paleoclimate, Solid Earth and Planetary Sciences, Surface and Hydrological Processes, and Lithospheric Processes.
The Department of History prides itself on maintaining relatively small classes to facilitate a close cooperative relationship between students and faculty members. Such an environment fosters a positive learning experience by encouraging intellectual exchange.
The major in human resource management prepares students for business careers that are centered on people. Course work is designed to develop the many skills required of a human resource specialist and focuses on areas such as employee recruitment, placement, performance evaluation, compensation/benefit programs, labor relations, team development, discipline, training/development programs, and career planning. Career opportunities are found in almost all business fields in firms that are large enough to warrant human resource specialists.
The Interior Design program prepares students to serve in the design profession in residential and commercial markets. Students learn technical skills and creative thinking as they build a portfolio. The program is also accredited by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA).