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Operations and Supply Chain Management Major (BS), Minor

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Operations and Supply Chain Management
Undergraduate
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BS.OPSCM
SCM.MIN
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  • Get an advantage: We've all seen the challenges that the pandemic caused to the global supply chain—which means people with expertise in supply chain management are in demand more than ever.
  • Global experience: Global aspects are deeply integrated into the program. You will travel internationally, gaining both business and cultural knowledge, and gain the skills needed to lead in multicultural contexts.
  • Start building your network now: Start with businesses now through class projects, and land impactful internships at a variety of companies.
  • Active faith: Whether you're working with a nonprofit or a global corporation, Calvin equips you to act faithfully in the business world. Learn to be effective without compromising your values.
  • Industry experts: Learn from the excellent faculty of Calvin's School of Business. Our professors are dedicated Christians with a wealth of priceless industry experience.
Introduction

When your textbooks get shipped to you in just two days, you’re benefiting from quick and efficient supply chain management. At Calvin, you’ll gain the problem-solving skills needed to keep people, products, and markets moving efficiently.

Interact with global businesses to learn how they manage their materials, talents, and energy. Discover different ways to get goods into the hands of people who need them. Grapple with the challenges of doing business ethically, sustainably, and faithfully. You’ll do it all under the guidance of faculty who draw on their own vast experience in the business world and who have the knowledge and business relationships to help you succeed.

You’ll earn a degree that's greatly in demand in a post-COVID world, and you’ll be an indispensable member of any team.

Information Systems Minor

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Information Systems Minor
Undergraduate
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INSYS.MIN
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  • Pairs well: An information systems minor is an excellent complement to another business major, or to any major that anticipates collaboration between business and technology.
  • Industry experts: Learn from the excellent faculty of Calvin's School of Business. Our professors are dedicated Christians with a wealth of priceless industry experience.
  • Active faith: Whether you're working with a nonprofit or a global corporation, Calvin equips you to act faithfully in the business world. Learn to be effective without compromising your values.
Introduction

Every organization, big or small, needs systems to track, control, and steward their resources and relationships with stakeholders.

With a minor in information systems, you'll learn the fundamentals of both business and computing—and you'll be ready to forge collaboration between the two.

An information systems minor pairs extremely well with other majors from the Calvin School of Business. It can also complement a major in computer science, data science, mathematics, or statistics. Any career or project that requires interaction between businesspeople or organizational stakeholders and technology will benefit from the technical, professional, and collaborative skills you will gain in this program.

Financial Planning Major (BS)

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Financial Planning
Undergraduate
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FINP.MAJ
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863fce66-8e0d-4ebe-9419-93a610e4dab5
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  • Practical experience: Grand Rapids is home to financial planning firms of all sizes, from small startups to national corporations. Calvin also has relationships with financial planning and advisory firms across the country. That means you'll get internship experience that's relevant to your career goals.
  • Faith-based: Your professors are Christians who understand money and finance as a way to help people flourish. You'll join a program with a strong ethical foundation and a mindset of service.
  • Study abroad: Calvin business students take their studies around the world, with study-abroad opportunities in places like Hungary, India, and China. You can earn your financial planning major, study abroad for an interim or a semester, and still graduate in four years.
  • Real-world opportunities: Programs like Nexus Financial Coaching and Knight Investment Management will give you a chance to work with real-life clients before you graduate. In fact, work in the Nexus program can count toward the work experience requirement for your CFP® certification.
Introduction

Help people be effective stewards of their resources. As a financial planning major, you'll craft financial plans that will lead individuals, non-profits, and businesses to their goals.

Calvin's BS in financial planning is the only CFP® registered faith-based major in Michigan and one of only a handful in the country. Through rigorous courses in financial planning, investments, estate planning, insurance, and more, you’ll learn to build financial plans that are shaped around your client’s unique resources, constraints, and long-term goals. You'll find plenty of internship opportunities in West Michigan's thriving business community, and you could get practical experience working with real clients through Calvin's own Nexus Peer Financial Coaching program. When you graduate, you'll have the skills and experience you need to take the CFP® exam and move toward your career in financial planning.

Whether you go on to create financial plans for a small business or provide personalized guidance to individuals, you'll help people to use their resources to achieve their goals.

Recreation Leadership Minor

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Recreational Leadership
Undergraduate
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RECR.MIN
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003482f9-8695-494d-b475-ed29de1a5ae3
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Learn invaluable leadership, risk management, and organization skills while gaining outdoor proficiency.

All students interested in developing their abilities to lead, facilitate, program, instruct, and manage risk are encouraged to complete a minor in recreation leadership studies during their time at Calvin University. Students selecting the recreation leadership minor will experience the Calvin campus as a learning lab. Along with on-campus courses, students travel well beyond the traditional classroom setting, exploring the rich and powerful experiential context of national and global field courses, community-based internships, adventure programming, and/or wilderness-based learning contexts. Recreation leadership minors will develop proficiency in a highly transferable leader skill sets; group facilitation, instruction, programming, risk management, development of teams, management of group dynamics, conflict management and resolution, and development of individual self-efficacy.

The recreation leadership minor exists to empower Calvin students to:

  • Develop a philosophy of leadership based in virtue ethics and distinct Christian perspectives.
  • Understand the transformative impact of good leadership in the lives of individuals and groups.
  • Create a servant leadership disposition centered in stewardship, empathy, and individual development.
  • Cultivate a signature style of leading that capitalizes on assets and strengths and develops liabilities.
  • Be a part of collaborative leadership projects that bring curriculum to life, through real-world projects.
  • Build and test leader-craft through leader roles in outcomes-based opportunities and programs.
  • Build leadership efficacy; competence and confidence, though complex skill acquisition.

Economics Major (BA, BS), Minor

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Economics (BS)
Undergraduate
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ECON.MAJ
ECON.MAJ.BA
ECON.MIN
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e1586f16-6b50-4cfc-824b-ae70da4d1a27
Introduction

Our data-driven world requires specialists in the economy, and at Calvin, you’ll be well-prepared to succeed in this increasingly important and global field.

You’ll learn from expert faculty and gain hands-on experience with prominent companies. You’ll graduate with expertise that is valued by businesses, non-profits, governments, and more.

Use analytical, creative, and critical-thinking skills to ask tough questions that shape our communities. Surrounded by an excellent academic community, you’ll frame those vital questions through a lens of rigorous and distinctly Christian intellectual inquiry.

Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Major

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Politics, Philosophy, and Economics
Undergraduate
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PPE.MAJ
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5039f28b-5494-4620-8607-3b311e36bc9b
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  • Framework of faith: The PPE major emphasizes Christian vocation and a commitment to civil and informed public discourse and policy.
  • Interdisciplinary: The PPE major bridges gaps between economics, political science, and philosophy. You'll bring philosophical insights to bear on empirical social science research, and use social science to measure philosophical concepts like equality and justice.
  • Versatile foundation: Pursue a flexible path through foundational and intermediate courses in each discipline, and conclude your studies with a capstone class.
Introduction

In our complex world, important issues often transcend the boundaries of academic disciplines.

The Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE) program at Calvin University equips socially conscious and intellectually curious students to pursue responses to real-world challenges with a robust complement of philosophical and social science tools and approaches.

The PPE program is an interdisciplinary major that brings philosophical insights to bear on empirical social science research. In this program, you'll learn to employ the methods of social science to measure philosophical claims about foundational concepts such as equality and justice.

Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS)

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Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS)
Undergraduate
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CPSC.BCS.MAJ
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  • A Christian mindset: Your professors are committed Christians who are passionate about making technology not just powerful, but also just. You’ll join that pursuit in local outreach programs and even study-abroad opportunities, where you’ll see firsthand how technology can improve lives.
  • The right skills: Gaining an edge in graduate school and your career requires that you be a good communicator on top of your mastery of programming and technical skills. Calvin’s BCS makes sure you pick up those critical “soft” skills.
  • Abundant resources: You’ll work with facilities and equipment normally found at big research school. That includes class labs and research facilities, including a Beowolf-class supercomputing lab that you might even use for your own research.
Introduction

Join a challenging, distinguished program that gives you both breadth and depth in computer science.

In intense classes, you’ll explore areas like software engineering, computer architecture, digital security, and 2D and 3D design. You’ll learn from—and do research alongside—professors with industry experience in fields like artificial intelligence and supercomputing.

On top of that, our BCS degree is accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET. It’s a distinction we share with a small number of significant programs around the country, such as MIT and the University of Michigan.

The result? Calvin BCS students go on to succeed at these and other graduate schools. They work for major technology firms internationally and locally, such as Google, Microsoft, Steelcase, Spectrum Health, and other business enterprises. And so can you.

BA in Speech Pathology and Audiology

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BA in Speech Pathology and Audiology
Undergraduate
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SPAUD.MAJ.4YR
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b4c6f9ca-4881-4d25-a0a3-afecc74386d4
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By majoring in speech pathology and audiology, you’ll receive the training and knowledge you need to apply to graduate programs in either speech pathology or audiology. Students who choose this degree embark on a fulfilling journey to help others overcome communication challenges, fostering better connections and enhancing quality of life.

History Major, Minor

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History
Undergraduate
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HIST.MAJ
HIST.MIN
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  • Gifted faculty Collaborate with highly respected faculty who are published experts on topics ranging from the Ottoman Empire to the contemporary African American church. They’re committed Christians who prioritize your learning and are personally invested in your success.

  • Open doors You’ll learn about history through small classes, internships, off-campus programs, and independent research projects. You’ll learn more than just historical facts—you’ll learn how to uncover information, appreciate different perspectives, test your own theories, and communicate your findings.

  • Future leaders Join a legacy of history majors who are in high demand in a wide range of professions. Our students go on to success in many fields because they think deeply, write clearly, and work effectively in any career they pursue.

  • Combines well History can readily be combined with a minor or second major, or with a pre-professional or professional track such as pre-law, pre-medicine, public health, or business.

Introduction

A history major prepares you for a wide range of pursuits. You might pursue a career in teaching, public service, graduate or professional school (such as law or medicine), media, ministry, and business. You'll acquire strong skills in writing, research, critical thinking, and public speaking, while you engage with a broad range of cultures and eras.

After framing your coursework with a survey course in global history, build research and writing skills in our Research Methods of History course. Then choose from a wide range of electives to explore your own interests, all while opening doors to your career goals. Finally, bring it all together in our capstone course as you reflect on vocation as a Christian historian.