The Composition major in the Bachelor of Music degree trains students to be composers and versatile musicians. The curriculum includes a high level of performance in an applied area or areas. The program contains instruction in conducting, electronic music and improvisation. It also contains instruction in orchestration, theory and history courses.
The Music History and Literature major in the Bachelor of Music degree is for students who would like concentrated study in diverse areas like traditions, styles, and cultural contexts of Western music and music of world cultures.
The Music Theory major in the Bachelor of Music degree is for students who wish to concentrate their study on the theory of music. Students will conduct research under mentors, faculty members who are active in academic discourse on the national and international level.
Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing offers a pre-nursing curriculum that combines liberal arts with natural and behavioral science courses. Although many of our students take these prerequisites on the Baylor campus in Waco, Texas, a number of them come to the Dallas campus from other accredited colleges and universities to finish their upper-division coursework.
Philosophy is the activity of thinking clearly about issues of fundamental importance. Studying philosophy at Baylor makes sense for students pursuing a variety of vocations, including law and medicine. Philosophy makes sense for life.
Graduate and undergraduate students in physics at Baylor University experience the benefits of a major American university, large enough to support a superior academic program while still allowing opportunities only available within a close-knit community of scholars. With excellent facilities housed in the Baylor Science Building, the department faculty and staff members are dedicated to help our students for their successes in our program and for their future.
Baylor's Political Science Department is renowned for its high quality teaching and for professors who care about students. Our majors have gone on to become lawyers, journalists, politicians, lobbyists, diplomats, political analysts and teachers. We place students in top law schools around the country such as Georgetown and Harvard, and in top graduate programs such as Yale and Princeton.
The professional selling major prepares students for success in careers that span the spectrum from account representative to vice president of sales and marketing. The sales curriculum cultivates the core skill competencies needed in a competitive, complex and ever changing marketplace.
Professional Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) at Baylor University prepares students to become effective communicators in diverse environments, for diverse disciplines, in a variety of workplaces and careers, and in a range of media. The major emphasizes a rhetorical approach to writing, where the audience, purpose, and context of writing are studied.
Psychology and neuroscience are comprehensive and versatile majors, providing educational foundation for advanced study in any field. Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. It seeks to understand the origins and processes of thought and emotion by drawing from biological, social, and cultural aspects of the human experience.