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Accounting

About Accounting

Interested in learning how to understand, develop, and help others make strong financial decisions? Have you ever seen yourself as the expert of preparing personal or business taxes?

Accounting infuses the study of financial activities with economic fundamentals and business decisions such as planning, analysis and problem solving. As a crucial component to organizations in today’s business environment, majoring in Accounting should be the top choice on your spreadsheet.

4 + 1 MSAC Option Available!

Interested in combining an undergraduate degree in accounting with a master’s degree in a five-year program? See our Five-Year B.S./M.S. in Accounting Program where you can complete 150 credits and be better prepared for the Certified Public Accounting (CPA) examination. As an accounting major, you can begin taking graduate courses in your senior year, double counting two courses to save on tuition! Another summer internship opportunity will build your professional skills, and then you complete the requirements of the 30 credit Master of Accounting (MSAC) degree in your fifth year and be sought after by major accounting firms.

Classes you can take:

Computer Law and Ethics, Federal Taxation, Cost Accounting, Auditing, Corporate Finance, Management Statistics, Principles in Information Technology, Business Ethics

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Hands-On Learning

Each Ramapo Accounting major is assigned an advisor from among the Accounting faculty and receives personal attention regarding educational and career guidance such as information on corporate job opportunities, CPA certification, on-campus interviews, and internships available with large and small accounting firms.

Examples of internships for Accounting majors at Ramapo include American Cancer Society, Deloitte & Touche, EisnerAmper, Ernst & Young, Stryker Orthopedics, WithumSmith + Brown, and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

About Minor

The goal of the minor in Accounting is to provide all Ramapo College students with an option to develop a competency in the field of accounting which will complement their major program of study. Students with a minor in Accounting will be better prepared to work in their major fields because accounting is an integral part of all aspects of business. The importance of financial statements to a finance, marketing, management, economics, international business or information technology management major is a primary reason for business students to participate in the program. Business students with a minor in accounting are also eligible to join the 4+1 MSAC program and earn both their Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Accounting in five years.

Accounting (4+1 BS-MS)

About Accounting (4+1 BS-MS)

Interested in becoming a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) someday? Ready to start the journey now, in a five-year B.S./M.S. in Accounting Program? If so, consider Ramapo College, where you can learn the knowledge and skills you need to succeed in the accounting profession and earn both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Accounting in five years:

  • Complete your Bachelor of Science in Accounting in four years
  • Begin taking graduate courses in your senior year
  • Take a fifth year of full-time coursework and complete your Master of Science in Accounting
  • Earn the 150 credits required to sit for the CPA examination

Ramapo College accounting graduates are in high demand by local, regional and national accounting firms including the “Big Four” firms. Our graduates also go on to work in accounting and financial roles in corporations of every size as well as non-profit organizations and in the public sector.

The Anisfield School of Business is accredited by AACSB, a recognition that establishes ASB as a member of an elite group of business schools worldwide.

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Graduate classes you can take:

  • Data Analytics
  • Financial Statement Analysis
  • Fraud Examination and Advanced Auditing
  • Forensic Accounting
  • Advanced Auditing and Information Technology Systems
  • International Accounting and Reporting Issues
  • Advanced Federal Taxation Issues
  • Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting

Accounting (MSAC)

About M.S. in Accounting (MSAC)

Looking to take your career to another level as an accounting professional? If you have an undergraduate degree in business and are interested in pursuing a master’s degree in Accounting, this program may be for you. This 30-credit graduate program will allow you to attain advanced knowledge in financial statement analysis, auditing and accounting information systems as well as complete the 150 credits to be eligible for Certified Public Accountant (CPA) certification.

Ramapo College Accounting graduates are in high demand by local, regional and national accounting firms including the “Big Four” firms. Our graduates also go on to work in accounting and financial roles in corporations of every size as well as non-profit organizations and in the public sector.

The Anisfield School of Business is accredited by AACSB, a recognition that establishes ASB as a member of an elite group of business schools worldwide.

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Graduate classes you can take:

  • Data Analytics
  • Financial Statement Analysis
  • Fraud Examination and Advanced Auditing
  • Forensic Accounting
  • Advanced Auditing and Information Technology Systems
  • International Accounting and Reporting Issues
  • Advanced Federal Taxation Issues
  • Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting

Acting

About Acting

The Theater major with a concentration in Acting is at the very heart of storytelling in theater and film. The Acting concentration at Ramapo is an immersive, challenging and transformative pursuit. Actors in today’s world need to be well-rounded, resourceful, and able to move fluidly between platforms. Acting students at Ramapo spend their days in classes, their evenings rehearsing, performing and participating in a myriad of other ways on both student and faculty-led projects, serving as directors, assistant directors, designers, stage managers and producers. In addition, the Acting and Film programs benefit from ever-expanding collaborations, producing award-winning web series and films that are screened both at Ramapo and in festivals.

We produce four main stage productions and more than 25 student-directed one-acts every year. Ramapo’s improv comedy ensemble, Fooligans, and the newly minted Devised Performance Ensemble generate new work and are open to all. The vitality of the Theater Program energizes the Berrie Center and provides plenty of opportunities to explore, experiment, and grow as actors, artists and human beings.

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Classes you can take:

Introduction to Acting, Intermediate & Advanced Acting, Acting for Film and Television,Voice and Movement, Scene Studies, Auditioning, Acting in Shakespeare, BlackExperience Through Theater, Clowning and Comedy, Stage Makeup, Tango, Ballet,Jazz Dance.

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With a concentration in Acting, your Theater major will provide you with challenging, fun and intellectually demanding courses taught by MFA trained actors and directors. Your “classroom” experiences will prepare you for a wide range of performance genres while developing your unique talent and retaining your own center of truth. You’ll work closely with faculty, guest artists, directors and designers in productions that are tailored to closely mirror professional working conditions. The techniques learned in the classroom will be put into practice in the four main stage shows as well as in guest artist workshops and a variety of student theater and film projects all aimed at empowering the individual actor.

With our proximity to the NY/NJ Metro areas, Ramapo students have unique opportunities to gain experience through internships at Luna Stage, 13th Street Repertory Company, Merit Theater and Film Group, MAYO Performing Arts Center, New Vision Players, Plays in the Park and Write Act Repertory Theater, among many others. Students regularly intern with production companies and casting directors and several have been hired immediately upon graduation because of their internship experience. Exposure to industry professionals provides students with a valuable edge and connections as they begin their careers.

Africana Studies

About Africana Studies

Are you fascinated by learning about the diversity of Africa’s people and their wide-reaching contributions to world culture? Do you strive to make the world a better place by being an active participant in the world community?

Africana Studies prepares you to be a global citizen in our technologically advancing world by developing your critical thinking skills, oral competence, writing ability, technological and ecological literacy in order to facilitate positive change for the betterment of the African Diaspora and humanity.

Classes you can take:

Introduction to African Studies, African American Social and Political Thought, Hip Hop and Society, African Americans in Film

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Hands-On Learning

Since many of your Africana Studies courses double-count, a large number of Africana Studies students choose to double major. For example, an Africana Studies major with literature, business, international studies, music, history or communications is recommended and a good way to diversify your knowledge base.

Looking for internship experience? Recent Africana Studies majors have participated in co-op programs with Harriet Jacobs Papers Project, Mahwah Museum, Center for WWII Studies & Conflict, Resolution Jewish Heritage Museum, New York Public Library, The Newark Museum, Englewood (NJ) One Community Black History Projects, and the New Jersey Historical Commission New Jersey Black Heritage Trail Program

About Minor

The African American Studies Minor focuses on African and African American history and culture related especially to the experiences of African people living in the Americas. The program provides students with knowledge and an understanding of an Afrocentric world view and traces the roots of oppression of African people. Additionally, the minor encourages students to continue their involvement in African American scholarship and make strong contributions to the increasingly multicultural American society by becoming proactive members of their communities.

American Studies

About American Studies

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Are you often the one finding the deeper meaning in books, movies, and television shows? Are you looking at the state of the country and telling yourself “there must be a better way”? And do you want to keep your options open for what comes after graduation?

If you said yes to any one of these questions, the American Studies major at Ramapo College could be the right choice for you.

As an American Studies major, you’ll examine all aspects of the United States – its prevailing myths and ideals, its growing role in the world, and its communities around class, gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. Our students graduate with broad cultural fluency and highly marketable skills in research and writing.

Classes you can take:

Native Americans, Museums in America, Hip Hop and Society, TV Noir and American Culture, Immigration to America, Discovering Digital History, Voices of Protest in Literature, American Musical Traditions, American Party Politics, Black Experience through Theater

 

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Looking for internships or other “real-world” experience while in college? American Studies majors have participated in programs at the New York Public Library, Mahwah Museum, Jewish Heritage Museum, and New Jersey Historical Society; worked on New Jersey political campaigns; and have held positions at Ramapo’s own Jane Addams Papers Project and the American History Textbook Project. Looking to study abroad? American Studies majors have embarked on programs around the world while taking classes that count towards graduation at home. Our majors have presented their work at regional conferences and campus events, gaining marketable experience in endeavors that enhance their educations while expanding their resumés.

Anthropology

About Anthropology

Anthropology supports the multicultural, international, experiential and interdisciplinary educational philosophy of Ramapo College. As such, Anthropology courses constitute a major component of the General Education program, besides serving the Anthropology minor. Most Anthropology courses count towards the International Studies major as well.Anthropology courses at Ramapo are concentrated in cultural anthropology, the sub-discipline of anthropology that emphasizes the role of culture in human life, and analyzes social and cultural differences and similarities throughout the world. By studying this field, students will become familiar with the diversity of cultural practices in the world, and the effects of global economic and political forces on the lives of people throughout the world.

Classes you can take:

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Important components of anthropology are presented in an integrated manner. In many Anthropology courses, students are required to do field work assignments and to write papers based on this first-hand research.

Art History

About Art History

The Visual Arts major with a concentration in Art History provides a strong foundation in the field of art history, with courses in contemporary art, American art history, European art, African art, alongside foundational courses that introduce students to European and “non-western” traditions. The concentration includes an internship requirement, and students have interned at professional art galleries, museums and non-profits. The Capstone class, Advanced Research in Art History, allows the student to do a semester-long research project on a work of art in an area museum and to present their research to a group of peers. The Art History Concentration prepares students to go on to graduate school in art history, or to careers in museums, galleries, cultural institutions and the private sector.

Classes you can take:

Basic Sculpture, Gallery Management and Curating, Histories and Concepts of 20th Century Art, Art Since 1945, Africa and Cinema, American Art I: Contact to 1865, American Art: 1865-1945, European Avant-Garde Art & Design

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Hands-On Learning

The concentration’s emphasis on writing, research and critical thinking make it an excellent foundation for any future career. Two full-time faculty teach courses in art history, occasionally supplemented by adjuncts with particular specializations. Ramapo Gallery Director Sydney Jenkins teaches the course Gallery Management and Curating periodically, preparing art history concentrators and others for internships in arts professions. Professors integrate museum trips and visits to galleries into each course, allowing students to take advantage of the wealth of arts resources nearby.

Biochemistry

About Biochemistry

Do you get completely absorbed in finding out how living organisms harvest energy from their environment? Could you spend hours studying different organic compounds or DNA binding of bacterial proteins?

Biochemistry is derived from the disciplines of chemistry, physics and biology for understanding the processes that operate in cells and organisms and attempts to understand the uniqueness of complex living systems. The knowledge garnered from biochemical research has been applied to solve problems in areas ranging from agriculture to medicine.

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Classes you can take:

The Biochemistry program curriculum is composed of multi-interdisciplinary course components including the areas of chemistry, biology, physics and mathematics.

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Hands-On Learning

Ramapo has modern laboratories for chemistry, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology and physics that are utilized in the major. There are opportunities for you to do bench level research with faculty and internship and in-depth experiences occur in nearby industries such as Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Avon Products, Inc., NJ Department of Environmental Protection, Monmouth County Park System and the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission.

Bioinformatics

About Bioinformatics

Are you driven by data? Would you love to use new technology to help prevent diseases or design new drugs and vaccines? Are you hooked on studying the structure and function of proteins? Bioinformatics is a modern interdisciplinary science that uses computational techniques to frame and resolve biological problems. Bioinformatics is practiced in the fields of molecular, personalized and preventative medicine, biotechnology and nanobiotechnology. It is revolutionizing the way medicine is done in the 21st century. Bioinformatics allows scientists to look at the “bigger picture” and use data to answer questions and detect trends to solve some of today’s most pressing scientific issues. For example, several Ramapo College graduates of the Bioinformatics program helped develop an mRNA vaccine against COVID.

Students of this program also have an option to enroll in an accelerated Masters program in Data Science.

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Classes you can take:

Bioinformatics, Advanced Bioinformatics, Genetics, Cell & Molecular Biology, Computer Science, Problem Solving with Python, Data Science, Database Design, Biochemistry, Genomics, Machine Learning, Big Data Programing, Research Design & Statistics, Discrete Structures, Energy & Society, History & Systems of Psychology

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The bioinformatics curriculum has been designed to lay a solid multidisciplinary foundation in modern life sciences, chemistry, mathematics, as well as cutting-edge computer technology using informatics as an interdisciplinary, cohesive tool. In advanced courses, students are trained to manage biological data, develop computational methods to analyze and interpret data, solve scientific problems and make new discoveries. In addition to the scientific and technical concepts, students are also exposed to the social, business, and ethical aspects of science.

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The career-oriented Bioinformatics program prepares the students to obtain employment in industry and academia, pursue graduate education, careers in medicine and related disciplines, or engage in research in this technological field of great demand. Bioinformatics skill sets are one of the most sought-after in the current market. Therefore, students graduating with this major have many attractive career options.

In addition to the pharmaceuticals and healthcare companies, potential employers include research labs in academia, hospitals, governmental agencies, software industry, biotechnology sector, bioinformatics and genomics service industries and many more. Bioinformatics jobs offer decent salaries and are easy to find. Some of the job placements of RCNJ Bioinformatics majors in the recent years include: research or analytical scientists, computational biologists in Pfizer pharmaceuticals, Suvoda, GSK, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Santa Cruz Biotechnology.

Some Ramapo Bioinformatics graduates choose to join medical or dental schools. Many others are accepted into Ph.D. programs, mostly with full scholarships. Some of the institutions of higher education in which RCNJ Bioinformatics graduate have been accepted in are: Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University Dental School, RWJ Medical School, Georgia Institute of Technology, Yale University, and University of Pennsylvania.

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Ramapo College is one of the few undergraduate colleges in the US and the first in New Jersey to offer a baccalaureate degree in Bioinformatics. Ramapo has well-maintained modern laboratories for bioinformatics, computer science, molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics that you will use throughout your Bioinformatics program.

Bioinformatics is practiced in the fields of molecular, personalized and preventative medicine, biotechnology and nanobiotechnology. Applying this powerful new technology can help to prevent, diagnose and treat inherited and other diseases, design new drugs and vaccines, shorten the development cycle of new medicines and much more.

As a student of Bioinformatics, you will be assigned at least three separate research projects during your junior and senior years. These projects involve application of interdisciplinary knowledge and skills learned during the semester to solve biological problems. In addition to incorporating research into the curriculum, the bioinformatics program provides extra-curricular research opportunities. RCNJ bioinformatics faculty members are actively engaged in research and encourage involving undergraduate students in their research projects. Several of these research efforts represent cross-disciplinary collaborations, for example, between computer scientists and biologists. You will also be encouraged to present your research findings at conferences and publish your accomplishments in peer reviewed scientific journals. Many of Ramapo College bioinformatics students have won awards and co-authored publications in international peer-reviewed journals for the research that they have performed with Ramapo College faculty.

If you’re interested in gaining internship experience, previous Ramapo students have participated in programs with the New York Blood Center, Pfizer pharmaceuticals, Cornell University, Texas A& M University, Vanderbuilt University, and other companies and institutions.

About Minor

The Bioinformatics minor provides Ramapo College students with an opportunity to develop bioinformatics skills, which will complement their major program of study. Students with a minor in Bioinformatics are expected to be better prepared for professional schools, graduate programs and research oriented jobs in industry and academia. The minor also offers a more thorough preparation for the doctoral programs.

Biology

About Biology

Biology is the scientific study of living things. The biology program at Ramapo College addresses a wide range of biological topics and fields, spanning molecular, cellular, organismic, community and evolutionary perspectives. Students gain experience in problem-solving and data collection & analysis in the classroom, laboratory, and field, while also building other essential academic skills such as writing and oral communication.

Graduates of Ramapo College’s biology program, many of whom go on to graduate school, follow a wide variety of career paths, including those in medicine and other health areas, pharmacy, food science, horticulture, ecology, research, education, government organizations, and more.

Classes you can take:

Genetics, Microbiology, Field Botany, Angiosperms, Evolution, Immunology, Avian Ecology, Paleontology & Paleoenvironments, Food Science, Nutrition and Human Metabolism

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Hands-On Learning

Hands on learning occurs in all Biology laboratories and other science laboratories. There are additional opportunities for hands on learning with research with faculty as well as coops.

About Minor

The Biology minor is organized to give our students a firm foundation for understanding the central principles of the study of life processes, yet it permits student flexibility to select courses which reflect their own particular areas of interest. In the core Biology courses, students examine principles of change and continuity, inheritance and evolution, unity and diversity of organisms and their interaction with the environment and the impact of the environment on all life forms.

Business Analytics

About Business Analytics

Business Analytics studies data in order to identify patterns or trends that can then be used to predict future patterns or trends, allowing businesses to make better decisions.  We live in a time when large amounts of data are being collected, in almost every aspect of society—and there is a tremendous demand for people with analytics skills.   The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a strong demand for people with business analytics skills well into the next decade.The Business Analytics minor curriculum has two required courses: Business Analytics I and Business Analytics II.   The Business Analytics I course provides students with the fundamental concepts and tools needed to understand the emerging role of business analytics in organizations.  The course covers managerial statistical tools in descriptive analytics and predictive analytics, including probability distributions, sampling and estimation, statistical inference, and regression analysis.  Students also learn how to communicate with analytics professionals using basic data visualization techniques to effectively use and interpret analytic models and results for making better business decisions.  The second required course, Business Analytics II, provides students with advanced concepts and tools needed to understand the role of business analytics in organizations.  Topics would include forecasting, risk analysis, simulation, data mining, and decision analysis.  Emphasis is on applications, concepts and interpretation of results as well as conducting statistical analyses.  The BA minor also consists of three electives that students can use to develop skills and knowledge in a specialized area of business analytics.

Classes you can take:

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Chemistry

About Chemistry

Do you want to learn knowledge and skills that will allow you to contribute to advances in health, food and energy production, environmental and forensic analysis, and next-gen materials technology? Do you want to learn methods and techniques that will prepare you to work on cutting-edge research in academia, government, or industry?

Chemistry is the central science that spans and interacts with physics and biology. Chemistry majors are prepared to step into the job market immediately after graduation or to continue their studies in challenging graduate programs, medical school, dental school, or other professional studies. The study of chemistry coupled with secondary teaching certification is excellent preparation for teaching in high school.

For more information about the chemistry and biochemistry majors at Ramapo College, please click here: https://www.ramapo.edu/tas/chemistry-and-biochemistry/The chemistry curriculum begins in the first year of study with General Chemistry I and II courses that provide a survey of the fundamental ideas and topics in chemistry. In the second year, students continue to build on their mathematical and physical foundation, and they learn how organic compounds are synthesized in the lab and in nature. In the third year, the curriculum emphasizes analysis and characterization by delving deeper into the physical characteristics of materials and showing how to analyze and measure their properties. In the final year of the curriculum, chemistry students apply their fundamental knowledge to specialized areas of chemistry such as biochemistry, inorganic chemistry, and medicinal chemistry.

Classes you can take:

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Ramapo has brand new laboratories for chemistry, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and physics. You’ll have the opportunity to do research with faculty in the Research Honors Program. Chemistry students are able to conduct research with a faculty member in specializations such as surface chemistry, organometallic chemistry, biochemistry, peptide chemistry, analytical chemistry, and environmental chemistry. Computer labs are available to you to supplement what you’ve learned in lectures and laboratories.

Chemistry majors can take part in Ramapo’s cooperative education program to gain industrial work experience at local facilities such as Avon Products, Inc., NJ State Police Office of Forensic Sciences, Bergen County Vo-Tech Schools, Nathan Kline Institute, Johnson & Johnson, and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals.

Junior and senior chemistry students can participate in the teaching assistantship program where they can help students learn laboratory skills and methods.

About Minor

The chemistry minor at Ramapo gives its students an in-depth grasp of theoretical concepts as well as a variety of practical skills. Many of the scientific advances of this modern age are in interdisciplinary areas such as biophysics, materials science, molecular biology, medicinal chemistry, protein biotechnology and environmental science.

Chiropractic

About Chiropractic

Chiropractors get people back on their feet through alternative medicine. So in this combined articulation agreement program, you’ll learn all about the ins and outs of soothing a bad back or irked neck. But first things first. As a freshman, you might start as a Biology or a Biochemistry major. You spend your first three years at Ramapo College and your fourth year at the Northeast College of Health Science. If you’re interested in this program, you’ll apply during your junior year at Ramapo.

Classes you can take:

Bio-organic Chemistry, Fundamentals of Biology, Fundamentals of Chemistry, Statistics, Social Issues, Precalculus, Ecology, Anatomy & Physiology

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You’ll find well-equipped modern laboratories at Ramapo, which include computer rooms, computerized biology and physiology labs, and a student research lab, so you can explore the many aspects of biological sciences through your courses and as a participant in faculty research.

Want to hang out with other pre-med and pre-health students? Come join our Pre-Med Club or our medical honors fraternity, Phi Delta Epsilon.

Civic and Community Leadership

About Civic and Community Leadership

Representative of Ramapo College’s curricular tradition of cultivating student engagement in civic, local, state and international communities, the Civic and Community Leadership (CIVL) minor brings together coursework that engages students and graduates in the public work of building democracy.

As the founder and co-director of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship, author Harry C. Boyte’s scholarly work on civic engagement and higher education is foundational for reconceptualizing civic learning. He writes: “We need to move beyond narrow views of citizenship as voting and voluntarism, and reinvent citizenship as public work, work that explicitly and intentionally prepares our students (and ourselves) to be builders of democracy, not simply helpers, voters, analysts, informers or critics of democracy.”*

The selection of courses in the Ramapo College CIVL minor creates an opportunity for students to examine their potential for leadership within a number of domains, including interpersonal styles of leadership, ethical traditions, domestic and international politics, and social justice. Through the satisfactory completion of specific elective course offerings, students are able to situate this broad foundation within the field they wish to pursue.

*Democracy’s Education: Public Work, Citizenship, and the Future of Colleges and Universities (2015)In addition to the core courses, the Civic and Community Leadership minor features an array of electives across many majors.

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Students minoring in Civic and Community Leadership have abundant opportunities through their courses to experience hands-on learning. In particular, in CIVL 301, students have an opportunity to design their own non-profit organization to address and educate around a social issue that is of importance to them.

Clinical Lab Science (CLS)

About Clinical Lab Science (CLS)

Would you be interested in being a healthcare detective? Picture yourself viewing tissue samples with a microscope to identify a certain disease or illness?

By studying Clinical Lab Science, medical laboratory scientists use their knowledge and skills in science, biotechnology and medicine to provide essential information to physicians and other health care professionals about the presence, extent, or absence of disease, as well as effectiveness of treatment.

Classes you can take:

Statistics, Genetics, Microbiology, Immunology, Histology, Biochemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology, Anatomy & Physiology, Fundamentals of Chemistry

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This program is jointly sponsored by the School of Theoretical and Applied Science (TAS) of Ramapo College and the School of Health Professions of the Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (Rutgers-SHP). Students must complete 96 credits including the General Education requirements, TAS requirements, and a preprofessional core. Students who transfer to Ramapo College must complete 48 credits at Ramapo, 33 of which are science and math courses in the major before completing the program at Rutgers-SHP. They then complete a 45-credit professional program at Rutgers-SHP. This latter part takes 15 months starting in the summer after the junior year.

Some examples of clinical placements for Clinical Lab Science majors include: Valley Health Systems, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, Hackensack University Hospital, Chilton Hospital and hospitals in New York City such at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

Communication Arts (General)

About Communication Arts (General)

Are you interested in how new technologies and the globalization of media are blurring the lines between previously distinct areas of media production and reception? You should look into the Communication Arts Major and concentrations offered at Ramapo College.

The Communication Arts Major prepares students for a richly interdisciplinary field that exists at the intersection of media, film, and culture. To prepare you to produce outstanding creative work in an increasingly diverse society, the curriculum is both grounded in the liberal arts and committed to teaching the principles, aesthetics and tools of the discipline through the development of new pedagogies based on digital interactive multimedia technologies.

Classes you can take:

Digital Culture, Media and Technology, The New TV Criticism, Newswriting, Motion Graphics and Title Design, Media Sports and Society,The Social Documentary, Graphic Design, Photojournalism, Global Workplace

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Interested? The communication arts major offers five comprehensive programs in the following areas of study to concentrate on:

  • Digital Filmmaking (documentary, fiction, screenwriting, television and film production and theory)
  • Global Communication and Media (media studies, communication, persuasion, advertising)
  • Journalism (community journalism, digital journalism, photojournalism)
  • Visual Communication Design (graphic, print, digital publishing and web design, interactive animation, motion graphics)
  • Writing (creative writing, writing for publication, writing for the media, promotions writing)

As a communication arts major, you’ll have access to a wide range of facilities, including computer labs for digital imaging, print design, interactive multimedia production, audio postproduction, Final Cut Pro digital postproduction, and writing; a field production classroom, private editing suites, audio recording studio, student access clusters, and studio facilities for television/digital film/new media production. Out of the classroom, Ramapo offers experiential opportunities and extracurricular activities such as weekly film screenings, the Rho Phi chapter of Lambda Pi Eta, the National Communication Arts Honor Society; a student Creative Media Club; regular presentations by artists, professionals, and alumni, and Media Collision, the annual spring showcase of outstanding student work.

All majors also complete an internship or co-op. Ramapo communication arts majors have gained experience in film, television, and interactive media companies; newspaper, magazine, and book publishers; or museums, public relations, promotions, and other commercial and non-profit organizations. These experiences include interning with NBC Universal, Push to Walk, The Record, ESPN Radio, Mercedes Benz, and Live! With Kelly & Michael.

Community Mental Health

About Community Mental Health

The Social Science contract major with a concentration in Community Mental Health (CMH) is one of the programs offered through the School of Social Science and Human Services.

Community Mental Health constitutes a socially necessary set of institutions that provide services to millions of people on an annual basis and engages the participation of multiple professionals. The concentration in Community Mental Health prepares students to understand the components needed to provide services at the community level and to develop skills for effective delivery.  This concentration is a good fit for students interested in public health, public administration, social work, law, and public policy.

To complete the CMH concentration within the Social Science contract major, within the 11 courses required for the major, one required course (SWRK 328 Community Mental Health) and three electives would focus on issues related to CMH. See “Requirements of the Major and Concentrations” for details.

An internship is recommended, but optional.

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Computer Science

About Computer Science

Are you into computer programming? Do you find areas such as software development, robotics, big data, financial modeling, network programming, artificial intelligence, database design, cyber security, and web application development fascinating? If you said yes to some of these areas, Computer Science may be a good career choice for you.

Computer Science is the study of the representation, storage, and transformation of information. As both a career-oriented and academic discipline, the courses in the major are taught in a manner that encourages students to develop professional competence; acquire intellectual maturity and curiosity; and establish a long-term commitment to keep current.

Classes you can take:

In addition to the core courses in the major, the following are some of the classes that you may take as electives for the Computer Science major. You are required to take at least 7.

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The Computer Science faculty brings a wide diversity of experience in industry and academia. Computer networking, object oriented programming, financial modeling, database design, web development, UNIX, .NET and Windows programming, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, GUI programming, software methodologies, programming languages, numerical analysis and computer graphics are areas well represented by your professors.

As a graduation requirement, you will have to design and implement a significant piece of software as your senior project. Additionally, your professors will encourage you to actively participate in off campus learning through on of the many opportunities available through internships such as Google, Storis, Inc., PSE&G, Bergen County Technical Schools, and UPS.

About Minor

Computer Science is the study of the representation, storage, and transformation of information. The subject areas of computer science include algorithms and data structures, programming languages, object oriented programming, GUI programming, web based development, operating systems, compiler design, numerical analysis, simulation, data communication and network programming, database design, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, security, and software methodologies.

This broad body of knowledge is presented in a manner which encourages Computer Science minors to develop professional competence, and acquire intellectual maturity and curiosity; establishing a long-term commitment to remain current in this rapidly changing discipline. Indeed, Computer Science at the College is in a continual state of evolution, with new courses being added to the program and every course being regularly updated.

Contemplative Studies

About Contemplative Studies

Contemplative Studies is an emerging interdisciplinary field. It features specific themes from across a wide spectrum of knowledge such as Philosophy, Religious Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Social Justice and Environmental Studies as well as the professions and the arts. Contemplative Studies address the meditative, contemplative or ‘mindfulness’ practices studied as:

  1. elucidated by the contemporary methods of the social and natural sciences, and
  2. as embedded within contextualized cultural-historical traditions.

The Core Courses:

  1. Foundation Course. The first 2 credit core course is a systematic 8 week mindfulness training program that was developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.
  2. Contemplative Studies Course. Students can choose one of two academic courses that are specifically contemplative in their scope and taught by instructors with a background in contemplative studies.
  3. Experiential Course. In the Contemplative Practice category students choose one 2 credit course offered by the Bradley Center.
  4. Cultural-Historical Course. In the Contemplative Culture and Traditions category students select one of four courses that delve into the cultural and historical aspects of contemplative practices.

The Electives:

  1. Elective Courses: Students select 2 courses from a list of 9 courses from across the college.

Classes you can take:

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Hands-On Learning

Required Service Learning Project (noncredit 15 hours): Students participate in a service activity related to promoting mindful values and projects in the Ramapo community and beyond. Activities such as promoting sustainability through work with Mahwah Environmental Volunteers Organization Farm, bringing meditative activities to underserved populations through Kula for Karma, and/or the creation of CSM service projects, could enhance students’ capacity for compassion and commitment to use mindfulness and contemplative practices for the greater good.

Contemporary Arts

About Contemporary Arts

The Contemporary Arts major is an interdisciplinary contract major that allows students to design their own major to reflect their particular interests and career goals such as Public Relations or Animation. Working in consultation with a faculty advisor, students select courses from the offerings across the School of Contemporary Arts and across the whole college.  For example, a student interested in pursuing a career in Animation may elect to take courses from the fine arts programs of Theater and Visual Arts, combined with courses from the Communication Arts program.  Or, a student interested in Business Communications may combine communications journalism and writing with courses from the Anisfield School of Business.

Classes you can Take:

Introduction to Non Western Art Traditions, Photography: Concepts and History, Renaissance Art, Arts, Artists, and Society, Music in Our Time, Development of Modern Theater, European Avant-Garde Art & Design, Performance and Art, Art as Therapy, Apocalyptic Visions in Anime, Film & Media, American Photography and Visual Culture

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Hands-On Learning

This major requires self-motivation and serious planning, but it can be especially rewarding for the student who has specific goals that cannot be met in a regular major at the college, or who wishes to have the flexibility to take a wider array of courses than would be possible in a regular major. After an initial consultation with the Convener of the major, each student will be assigned to work in developing the major with a faculty member who is most knowledgeable in the area of the student’s interest.

Contemporary Arts: Professional Communication

About Contemporary Arts: Professional Communication

Ramapo College’s Degree Completion Program (DCP) provides returning adult students ages 25 and older a fully mapped pathway to finishing their undergraduate degree on an accelerated schedule. The DCP offers two accelerated contract majors:

  • Social Science contract major with a Society and Culture concentration
  • Contemporary Arts contract major with a Professional Communications concentration

These accelerated majors combine online and evening classroom study on a part-time, year-round schedule (fall, winter, spring and summer).

Generally, Degree Completion Program (DCP) students have earned at least 64 credits either through an Associate’s Degree or through a combination of transfer credits from previous institutions. DCP majors provide the entirety of any courses required by the major, along with any school core requirements, as part of the mapped curriculum. Students must also be part of a Degree Completion Program cohort in order to enroll in either of the accelerated majors or in a DCP section of a course.

The Degree Completion Program assumes that a student has successfully completed Ramapo’s general education requirements prior to enrollment. However, students who need to complete outstanding General Education requirements or elective credits can do so through advisement from the program director.The accelerated Contemporary Arts: Professional Communication major focuses on how information is created, managed, distributed and consumed. Students in this program engage in coursework in four key areas: Business and Non-Profit Communication, Written Communication, Visual Communication; and Persuasion and Oral Communication. With this degree, you will be prepared for careers in fields as diverse as public affairs, advertising and marketing, as well as opportunities in business, government and non-profit administration.

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Creative Writing

About Creative Writing

The English and Literary Studies major offers a concentration in Creative Writing, as well as a Creative Writing minor for non-majors. Our program combines intensive instruction in creative writing with conventional coursework in literary studies. In doing so, it prepares students for a life of thoughtful, informed, independent-minded citizenship. It is our position that students who write fiction, poetry, and nonfiction at the same time they are studying published and historical works of literature are uniquely positioned to gain insight into the writing process, the complexities of the verbal imagination, textual analysis, and the malleability of culture. Creative Writing students leave college ready to take on most challenges, and, indeed, our graduates have been as likely to make their mark in civic institutions or the corporate world as to devote their lives to authorship.

In addition to a complement of literature courses, students in Ramapo’s Creative Writing program enroll in workshops in which they produce original literary works, critique those of classmates, and learn how a variety of literary and nonliterary texts are constructed. While on this journey through the creative process, they have opportunities to meet and learn from nationally regarded authors who visit through the Readings at Ramapo Series. They meet fellow creative writers and interact through clubs and formal societies and organizations like Sigma Tau Delta and COPLAC, and they have opportunities to work on the college’s literary magazine Trillium, or, if they wish, to go off and make their own. They enjoy internships with New York publishers and literary organizations like Wiley and Sons or The Center for Fiction, use their coursework as preparation for graduate study or a career in editing and publishing or teaching, or simply take their knowledge, skills, and well-founded confidence into the world when they are ready to find it has been waiting for them.

Classes you can take:

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The Creative Writing Concentration/Minor provides students the opportunity to explore the discipline of Literature by focusing on the production of literary works with courses in poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction.  By creating literature, students are asked to embody and express the formal, aesthetic and thematic concerns that we share with the scholarly aspects of literary study. Additionally, the Creative Writing minor fosters the knowledge and talents of students who have demonstrated promise as writers and allows others to find talents they did not know they had.

About Minor

Besides pursuing a English and Literary Studies major, students may choose to minor or concentrate in Creative Writing.

Crime and Justice Studies

About Crime and Justice Studies

The Crime and Justice Studies minor is an interdisciplinary minor drawing primarily from Sociology and Law and Society that provides students with knowledge and analytical skills to understand the problem of crime in its broad societal context—social, cultural, political, and economic, both nationally and internationally. This includes fostering an understanding of the causes and consequences of crime, criminal justice policy, and the role of law in redressing or reinforcing inequality and social problems with criminogenic ramifications.

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The Crime and Justice Studies Minor brings together critical sociological, legal and psychological foundations for examining crime and societal responses to crime.  The cluster of courses in the minor is meant to sharpen the students understanding of how ideological mechanisms and institutions are reproduced in the context of the criminal justice system.

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Hands-On Learning

Recognizing the international character of contemporary life, the Sociology program at Ramapo College emphasizes internships in local New Jersey and New York communities, as well as in study abroad programs.  By engaging in field study internships, sociology majors develop a broad and refined world perspective, and become highly prepared for graduate school and the workforce.

About Minor

The Crime and Justice Studies minor provides students with the knowledge to understand the problem of crime in its broad societal context—social, cultural, political, and economic, both nationally and internationally. This includes understanding the causes and consequences of crime, criminal justice policy, and the role of law in redressing or reinforcing inequality and social problems with criminogenic ramifications.

Criminal Justice

About the Law and Society Major with Criminal Justice Concentration

Interested in how the criminal justice system works and how you could improve it? Thinking about a career in law? The Law and Society major with Criminal Justice concentration provides students with the opportunity to focus on various areas including juvenile justice, forensic genealogy, and transitional justice, and issues relating to the death penalty, and wrongful convictions.

A number of Law and Society Ramapo graduates enter law school each year including Boston College Law School, Georgetown Law, New York Law School, Pace Law School, Rutgers School of Law, John Jay College, Seton Hall, and Syracuse University. Ramapo also offers a joint B.A./J.D Degree with Seton Hall Law School; this guaranteed admissions program is designed so that high achieving high school students who meet outlined criteria can be accepted to Ramapo and be guaranteed admission to Seton Hall Law School four years later.

What You’ll Learn

Students will gain an understanding of crime in its broad societal context—social, cultural, political, and economic, both nationally and internationally, and the criminal justice system.

The Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) Certificate Program

Along with earning a B.A. in Law and Society with a concentration in Criminal Justice, those interested in forensic genetic genealogy may consider Ramapo College’s Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) Certificate Program. IGG combines traditional genealogy and genetic genealogy to provide investigative leads in cases involving violent crime and unidentified human remains. IGG can also be used to help exonerate the wrongfully convicted.

The vision of the IGG Center is to secure justice through the ethical and proficient use of investigative genetic genealogy. The Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) program at Ramapo College of New Jersey is an entry-level course in the practical application of IGG on investigative cases. It is designed to teach students how to work an IGG case from beginning to end.

Students will apply their skills by working on a real, unsolved IGG case involving unidentified human remains. Those in our education programs, including the IGG Certificate Program, have helped to resolve nearly a dozen cold cases since its inception in 2023.

Learn more about the IGG Certificate Program >

Classes You Can Take

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As a Law and Society Major, you’ll dive deeper into your studies through independent study, field work, and your Senior Thesis. Popular internships for our students have included the Mahwah Police Department, Bergen County Police Department, Bergen County Municipal Court, Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), county and city courts, law firms, and state senators. Recent internship highlights include the United Nations, White House, and the international law firm White & Case (Germany).

The Ramapo Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) Center offers another opportunity for Law and Society majors to obtain hands-on experience in a new and exciting field in the only undergraduate training program in IGG in the country. The IGG Workshop (LAWS 365), where students learn how to conduct IGG and work on real cases from the IGG Center, provides 4-credits towards the Law and Society major. After completing the IGG Workshop, select students may continue to work on real cases of violent crime, unidentified human remains, and wrongful convictions at the IGG Center

All students in law and society must write a substantial thesis as their capstone. The best theses are published in the Ramapo Journal of Law and Society (www.ramapo.edu/law-journal), one of the few undergraduate law and society journals in the country. The Journal is run by Ramapo students, most of whom are law and society majors.

Our students also have an opportunity to organize and participate in our signature event series, the World of Law and SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) Discussion Series. The program is open to the entire college community, and has featured speakers from, among others, the Bronx Defenders, Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office, Children’s Rights, Center for Reproductive Rights, Legal Aid, American Friends Service Committee, Outten & Golden.

Cybersecurity

About Cybersecurity

Do you enjoy solving problems? Interested in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics or Information Technology? Want to use your programming powers for good? If so, you should consider majoring in Cybersecurity. Cybersecurity experts protect and defend software, systems and networks, ultimately safeguarding people in the digital realm.

Cybersecurity Roles

With the increase in cyberattacks, malware and hacking, along with a huge labor shortage in the field, there is a high demand for cybersecurity professionals. Organizations have a range of positions they need to fill. This includes roles such as computer forensic analysts, who have the knowledge and skills to recover data from devices and systems which, at times, may involve police investigations in cybercrimes. Network security engineers secure networks and protect data traveling from computer to computer over the internet. While machine learning engineers create algorithms for artificial intelligence to identify and defend against cyberattacks.

What You’ll Learn

The bachelor of science in Cybersecurity major is interdisciplinary, with the curriculum designed for students to develop their skills in programming, computer architecture, networking and cryptography. Foundational courses will ensure your understanding of security protocols, principles of information technology, as well as ethical and legal issues pertaining to computing technology and security. The training in this major will enable you to apply your knowledge in the real world, identifying and assessing cyber threats, vulnerabilities, testing and defending against common cyberattacks and more.

Classes you can take:

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Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)Bureau of Labor Statistics highlights cybersecurity as an occupations grouping “much faster than average,” with a projected growth of 33% from 2023-2033. The average salary for cybersecurity professionals is over $110,000/yr. October has even been designated Cybersecurity Awareness Month by the National Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

Hands-On Learning

All students working towards a bachelor of science in Cybersecurity are required to complete a capstone project, which is a hands-on experience involving large scale project development (CMPS 450). Some examples of senior projects that a Cybersecurity major might undertake include:

  • Develop a tool to scan for vulnerabilities in web applications or servers
  • Build a basic firewall that filters and monitors network traffic
  • Create a decentralized identity verification system using blockchain technology
  • Design a tool that automates common penetration testing tasks, generating security reports with important statistics

Data Science

About Data Science

Are you a person that enjoys statistics? Do you love computer programming? Would you like to join a growing field to utilize both skills to communicate solutions to problems from various industries? If so, then you should consider majoring in Data Science.

Data Scientists collect, synthesize, and analyze big data to drive scientific discovery and business opportunities. Data Scientists are skilled in programming languages, like R and Python, and leverage advanced knowledge in statistics, machine learning, and data visualization to meet the demands of modern business and science.

Data Science sits at the intersection of mathematics and computer science and is applied to a boundless set of disciplines. This program requires mathematics, statistics, computer programming, ethics, and a disciplinary minor as a basis for the integrated projects required within the Data Science program.

More Information About Data Science at Ramapo College

Classes you can take:

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Hands-On Learning

This project-based major asks students to apply their skills to real problems throughout the curriculum. The culminating experience of this program is a capstone project, ideally a problem from the minor or second major discipline. The student works on an extensive project to produce a solution to a data related problem and must communicate their results to the College community.

About Minor

Data Science is an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of mathematics and statistics, computer science, and a domain discipline from which the data is applied. The Data Science major program provides a strong technical background in mathematics and computer science and uses an embedded minor to allow students to explore another discipline more deeply. This Data Science minor offers the exact opposite experience. This is meant for students that have a deep understanding of their major discipline to add technical skills to better understand how to utilize data. The goal of this program is to ensure that students with a minor in Data Science have a solid foundation to effectively work with data in their chosen field.

The proposed minor in Data Science program consists of four required courses and one elective. The key courses are DATA 101: Introduction to Data Science to understand the landscape of data science and develop skills to address problems, and DATA 301: Data Analysis and Visualization to utilize and communicate data effectively. The courses CMPS 130: Scientific Problem Solving in Python and CMPS: 240 Data Analytics in Python are to develop their technical skills in Python and prepare them for DATA 301. The statistics elective is to allow students the opportunity to explore statistical analysis that is the foundation of the field. We include many disciplinary courses to hopefully encourage students in quantitatively related disciplines to explore this data science minor.

Data Science (4+1 BS/MS)

About Data Science (4+1 BS/MS)

Interested in becoming a Data Scientist or Data Analyst someday? Ready to start the journey now, in a five-year B.S./M.S. in Data ScienceProgram? If so, consider Ramapo College, where you can learn the knowledge and skills you need to succeed in the computer and data science profession and earn both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Data Science in five years:

  • Complete your Bachelor of Science in Data Science, Computer Science, Math or Bioinformatics in four years.
  • Begin taking graduate courses in your senior year. Take a fifth year of full-time coursework and complete your Master of Science in Data Science.

Ramapo College Data Science graduates are in high demand by local, regional and national tech firms. Our graduates also go on to work in computer, financial, scientific, and organizational corporations of every size as well as non-profit organizations and in the public sector.

View the Data Science 4+1 Website

Classes you can take:

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Hands-On Learning

This project-based major asks students to apply their skills to real problems throughout the curriculum. The culminating experience of this program is a capstone project, ideally a problem from the minor or second major discipline. The student works on an extensive project to produce a solution to a data related problem and must communicate their results to the College community.

Dentistry

About Dentistry

Do pearly whites make you smile? Perhaps you obsessively brush your own teeth. You were born to be a dentist, and now it’s time to follow that dream. Our Pre-Dentistry program is designed to get you perfectly prepped for higher learning as a dentist.

Here’s how it works. High school seniors who wish to follow the D.M.D. track while attending Ramapo College should apply as Biology majors with a concentration in Dental.

Classes you can take:

Fundamentals of Biology, Fundamentals of Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Fundamental of Physics, Calculus, Genetics, Cell and Molecular Biology, Anatomy and Physiology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Introduction to Psychology, English, Calculus

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Students following the Pre-Dental track are well equipped for dental school. Students may apply to Rutgers School of Dental Medicine (Rutgers-SDM) through our articulation agreement during your fourth semester at Ramapo College. Admission to Rutgers School of Dental Medicine is contingent upon completion of all Ramapo College requirements and meeting the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine standards. (line break) Recent Ramapo graduates have pursued their Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) degree or Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) outside of our articulation agreement at New York University and Columbia University.

Hands-On Learning

While Pre-Dentistry is not a major degree, it consists of a concentration track with a strong focus on chemistry and biology courses that will prepare you for your admission into dental school. You’ll work in modern laboratories, have the opportunity to conduct research with faculty as well as gain experience in dentist offices working as an assistant.

Want to hang out with other pre-med and pre-health students? Come join our Pre-Med Club or our medical honors fraternity, Phi Delta Epsilon.

Design / Technical Theater

About Design / Technical Theater

The Theater major with a concentration in Design / Technical Theater engages students in the collaborative process of designing and creating scenery, costumes, lighting, projections, and sound. You will not only learn inside the classroom but through direct experience on our four mainstage productions and through internship opportunities.

Classes you can take:

Costume, Set and Lighting Design classes, Stagecraft, Craft of Costume, Scenic Art, Drafting for Theater and Television, Theater Practicum, Producing the Play.

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You will be encouraged and expected to assume responsible positions as designers or technicians on productions to gain hands-on experience. Emphasis is placed on collaboration with other artistic members of a production as well as how the visual and aural aspects of production support the production and the director’s concept.

Students who have reached a level of accomplishment may have the opportunity to design a show at Ramapo.

Internships are encouraged and many Design / Technical Theater students complete an internship at professional theaters. With our proximity to New York City and Broadway, Ramapo students have a variety of world class opportunities to participate in productions.

Digital Filmmaking

About Digital Filmmaking

Have you ever practiced your Oscar or Emmy speech? Do you get lost in writing and creating short films or YouTube videos?

Students majoring in Communication Arts with a Digital Filmmaking concentration are immersed in the world of cinematic storytelling and film production processes. They develop a sophisticated narrative understanding and technical virtuosity in screenwriting, cinematic language, digital postproduction, audio and sound design, and film producing. They graduate from Ramapo with the ability to pursue many career options.

Classes you can take:

Directing the Fiction Film, Digital Postproduction, Business of Producing for Film and TV, Directing the Documentary, Digital Cinematography, Fundamentals of Audio, Writing the Screenplay, Web Series

 

Hands-On Learning

You will learn the art and craft of filmmaking using the latest digital technology with professors currently working in the field. Through hands-on experience, students learn the full production process from idea development to audience engagement and distribution. The curriculum provides you with the knowledge and experience you will need to succeed in the workplace as an engaged, knowledgeable and creative filmmaker, editor, screenwriter, production director, sound designer and cinematographer.

As a digital filmmaking student at Ramapo, you’ll have access to a wide range of facilities and equipment including HD cameras, rigs, audio and lighting equipment, audio recording and postproduction suites, a Final Cut Pro digital postproduction lab, private editing suites, and a film studio for production use.

There are also computer labs for digital imaging and print design available for your use. As part of the experiential curriculum, you will complete an internship. Ramapo students have interned for many productions houses, TV networks and corporations including NBC Universal, CBS, Cablevision, Deep Focus, Magnolia Pictures, Viacom, and MLB Network among others.

Directing / Stage Management

About Directing / Stage Management

Students majoring in Theater with a concentration in Directing / Stage Management learn about the skills needed to become a successful directors and stage managers. They also learn the basics to acting, design, and tech so that they can be well rounded in their field of work. Students may receive the opportunity to work on one of the two main stage shows in the Adler and Sharp Theaters to earn even more hands on experience.

Classes you can take:

Stage Management, Producing the Play, Directing, Advanced Directing, Acting, Lighting, Set and Costume Design and Craft of Costume, Theater Practicum, Production Workshop, Voice & Movement, Choreography, Advanced Lighting Design, Producing the Play

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All Ramapo Theater Productions are stage managed by our students. You will have the opportunity to work in The Sharp Theater, a 338 proscenium theater, or the Adler theater, a flexible black box space. You will also have the opportunity to assist faculty and guest directors.

Most Directing/Stage Management students participate in internships at the foremost regional and summer theaters in the country including: Utah Shakespeare Festival, Berkshire Theater Festival and Weston Playhouse.

Drawing and Painting

About Drawing and Painting

Are you an artistic person who loves to draw and/or paint? Can you spend hours perfecting your brushwork on your latest canvas? Would you love to hone your skills and push your creativity to the next level?

The Visual Arts major with a concentration in Drawing and Painting offers a multidisciplinary education in the arts. To begin your studies, you can take courses in art history, art and technology, 3-D modeling and animation, drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and video. You can continue more advanced study by specializing in drawing and painting.

Courses you could take:

Intermediate Drawing & Painting, Figure Drawing & Sculpture, Life Drawing, Identity & Culture, The Artist’s Book, Installation Art, Art as Therapy, Art & Interaction

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Sample Job Titles

  • Art Teacher K-12 Grade
  • Theatrical Scenic Artist
  • Retail Store Display Artist
  • Art Directors
  • Craft Artists
  • Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators
  • Multimedia Artists and Animators

Hands-On Learning

You will learn technical skills at the foundation levels, then augment these with experimental and conceptual approaches at the advanced levels. Just as drawing and painting have informed other visual media, you will understand how photography, video, film, and digital media have fundamentally changed drawing and painting.

Frequent class trips to major exhibitions at local world-class museums and galleries, and a rich program of visiting artist lecturers offers co-curricular enchantments to your classroom learning. Plus, if you’re interested in pursuing a counseling career in Art Therapy, you can take specialized advanced courses offering hands-on situational experience with therapy groups.

Earth Science

About Earth Science

The minor provides students with a firm grounding in physical and historical geology. Students will gain experience in geological cartographic techniques, be able to identify the major minerals and rocks (in the laboratory and the field), and gain practice in geological field techniques. The electives provide an opportunity to explore a wide range of aspects of earth science. Research opportunities in geology and paleontology are available.

CLASSES YOU CAN TAKE:

Fundamentals of Geology, Paleontology Paleoecology and Paleoenvironments, Introduction to Astronomy, Water Resources, Geology of New Jersey, Environmental Geology, Climate Change Science, Meteorology

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East Asian Studies

About East Asian Studies

In recent years, the center of the global economy has shifted to the Pacific Basin. The United States is on one side of this vast area, and the Asia Pacific region is on the other. East Asia, with the world’s greatest concentration of population and its most volatile economies, comprise the epicenter of Asia Pacific. It has, therefore become imperative for Americans to understand an area that includes China, Japan, the two Koreas, Hong Kong, Taiwan Mongolia, Southeast Asia and Far Eastern Russia.

America’s role in the world, its economic competitiveness, and its ability to meet the challenges of the new millennium – all rely on a clear perception of the history, politics, economics, sociology, culture and languages of East Asia. Learning about East Asia is in fact learning about those forces that affect our country, our jobs, our businesses, our households and indeed ourselves.

The East Asian Studies minor, totaling 20 credits, is offered by a faculty with various disciplines in anthropology/sociology, political science, business/ economics, psychology, and languages. Its two interdisciplinary foundation courses of three credits each are: East Asia: History and Politics of China, Japan, and Korea, and peoples and cultures of Asia. These basic courses provide the student with a broad historical, political and cultural background to the region as a whole. One 200-level course and two additional 300-level courses also are required from an approved list of course offerings. An East Asian language course of the appropriate level may be substituted for these requirements. Many other upper division courses on the politics and history of specific East Asian countries, courses in law, religion, immigration, business, sociology, and others, are offered each year.

CLASSES YOU CAN TAKE:

Introduction to East Asian Civilizations, The United States and East Asia, Modern Korea and the World, East Asia: History and Politics, Peoples and Cultures of Asia, Contemporary South Asia, Music in Asia,  

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Ramapo College has established study abroad programs with educational institutions in East Asia. Our students have studied in Wuhan, China, Ramapo’s last summer program in China has drawn many students who wish to study in Shanghai or in Hong Kong. We regularly have visiting professors from China who teach the language and culture of their country. Visiting scholars from Japan have also enriched our courses. More individualized programs of study in conjunction with other programs in East Asia, such as the New Jersey State Consortium for International Studies, have been arranged for Ramapo students.

Economics

About Economics

Does learning about the relationship between business and government interest you? Are you fascinated about society and the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services? Are you looking to understand booms and busts in the economy?

Economics is a rigorous and intellectually demanding field of study combining practical knowledge with historical understanding, analytical techniques with philosophical inquiry, and economic theory with government policy.

4+1 FLEX MBA Option Available!

As a student in the Anisfield School of Business, you may also want to consider the pathway to the 4+1 Flex MBA Program, where you can earn both your undergraduate and your Master’s degree in just five years.  Undergraduate business majors get 12 credits of MBA Foundational courses waived, so you can get your MBA by taking just ten more courses (30 credits) after graduation.   Having an MBA is a universally-recognized credential that gives you an advantage in the job market and the skills and knowledge to take on leadership roles in business.  For more information please go to https://www.ramapo.edu/mba/ or email Dr. Juan Cabrera, MBA Program Director, at jcabrera@ramapo.edu

Classes you can take:

Politics of International Investment, Environmental Economics, Econ of the Sports Industry, Financial and Economics Forecasting, Microeconomics, and Money & Economic Activity

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Besides classroom learning, students are strongly encouraged to further their studies through internship opportunities. Ramapo students have had cooperative education experiences with organizations such as Pearson Education, Citibank, Merrill Lynch, JHO Realty LLC, Red Bull New York, and USB Financial Services. As an Economics Major you’ll also advised by a member of the program’s faculty.

Education Studies

About Education Studies

The Social Science contract major with a concentration in Education Studies is offered through the School of Social Science and Human Services.

The Education Studies concentration allows students to explore the history of educational institutions and the social and cultural forces shaping educational thoughts and practices. Students who complete this concentration could find employment in many settings outside of schools that have educational functions; it may be of particular interest to students who are interested in working in educational settings, but do not wish to teach.

To complete the Education Studies concentration within the Social Science contract major, within the 11 courses required for the major, one required course (EDUC 221 Social Context of Education) and three electives would focus on issues related to Education Studies. See “Requirements of the Major and Concentrations” for details.

Participation in fieldwork that allows students to observe current educational practice and work with professional educators to hone their craft is recommended.

Classes you can take:

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Participation in fieldwork that allows students to observe current educational practice and work with professional educators to hone their craft is recommended.

Educational Leadership (MAEL)

About M.A. in Educational Leadership (MAEL)

Are you a prospective educational leader who is seeking leadership opportunities in your profession, or simply wishes to enhance your overall knowledge and skills? Would you like to obtain standard NJ Supervisor and Principal Certificate of Eligibility – and – a Master of Arts in Educational Leadership degree in only one year? The MAEL program of study is uniquely designed to provide you with the opportunity for intensive professional study and development.

The program is comprised of a cohesive framework of courses that are well-grounded in important theoretical studies and a progressive sequence of field-based opportunities to allow for the application of such theoretical models in the school environment.

Classes you can take:

Effective Educational Leadership and School Management, Evaluation and Supervision to Promote Student Academic Success, Change Leadership: Administrators as Change Agents and Instructional Leaders, School Law: Legal Issues Affecting Contemporary American Education

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The successful completion of the MAEL degree presents a range of professional opportunities, including supervisor, assistant principal, principal, program director and assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction.

Hands-On Learning

At Ramapo, you will learn through an accelerated hybrid or online format, uniquely designed in a manner that is practical, flexible and accommodating to the specific needs of the practicing educational professional. Harnessing the power of modern communication and distance learning technologies, both the hybrid and online formats allow you to effectively complete all program requirements within one calendar year. Essentially, you can become a supervisor in a summer, if you already hold a Master’s degree, or a school administrator in just one year.

The program is specifically designed to address the critical need for a new and progressive style of leadership. It is the mission of the Ramapo College Master of Arts in Educational Leadership program to provide prospective educational leaders the opportunity for professional growth and development that is effectively balanced in both theory and practice, allowing for experiential learning in authentic contexts that reflect the changing social, economic and political climate that currently shape our contemporary educational communities.

Electronic Art & Animation

About Electronic Art & Animation

Are you really into typography or learning how to create animations? There’s a major you can take to dive into how culture and art are tied to social, political and ideology concerns.

The Visual Arts major with a concentration in Electronic Art and Animation is an interdisciplinary path of study in the arts with a commitment to the integration of technology with art and culture.

Classes you could take:

Video Art, Physical Computing, Intermediate 3-D Computing, Art on the Internet, Installation Art, The Artist’s Book, Identity & Culture, Fund of Drawing, Basic Painting, Basic Sculpture, Digital Photography, Basic Art & Technology

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Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)Hands-On Learning

As a visual arts major, you’ll be able to take courses taught within a liberal arts context in art history, art and technology, 3-D modeling and animation, drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and video. If a career in education interests you, you can look into taking the Visual Arts Teaching Certification program.

You’ll take specialized courses with cutting edge technological tools helping to promote creativity and combining the areas of video, animation, social and electronic interactivity, and language to expand ideas of artistic expression. Ramapo students have gained internship experience with companies such as One on One Ads, Gallery Aferro, Harvestworks, and Brand Candy Media. Looking for a network for your art and ideas? Consider joining our Visual Artists Society on campus. Students have also been accepted into the Riverview Arts District Mural Program in Jersey City and screened their animations at the Jersey City Let It Glow outdoor video festival.

Elementary Education (4+1 BS/MA)

About Elementary Education (4+1 BS/MA)

The MASE 4+1 Dual Certification program offers students the option of a five-year integrated undergraduate and graduate program that prepares them to be both elementary or secondary content area teachers, as well as teachers of students with special needs. The MASE 4+1 Dual Certification program option is ideal for students who are specifically interested in:

  • the academic rigor and opportunity to achieve:
    • a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education (BSEE) and Master of Arts in Special Education (MASE) degree in just five years; or
    • a bachelor’s degree in a Content Area aligned with Secondary Certification and Master of Arts in Special Education (MASE) degree in just five years; and
  • obtaining either:
    • NJ Elementary (K-6) Certificate of Eligibility with Advanced Standing (CEAS) and NJ Teacher of Students with Disabilities Endorsement; or
    • NJ Subject Area (K-12) Certificate of Eligibility with Advanced Standing (CEAS) and NJ Teacher of Students with Disabilities Endorsement.

View MASE 4+1 Dual Certification Program Website

Class you can take:

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Elementary Education (Teacher Certification Program)

About Elementary Education (Teacher Certification Program)

Are you interested in teaching but are unsure what major to choose?

The Elementary Education Program prepares teachers from a variety of majors to become K-5 educators. We strongly recommend that you major in content areas that are related to what you will teach every day in an elementary classroom—mathematics, literature, science, and social studies. We also recommend considering combined majors such as American Studies and Integrated Science Studies, as these majors give students a breadth of content across a variety of subject areas.

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Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)

Graduate Opportunities:

Ramapo has three specific programs geared toward teaching professionals and furthering your career options:

  • The Master of Arts in Educational Leadership
  • The Master of Science in Educational Technology
  • The Master of Arts in Special Education

Hands-On Learning

The Teacher Education Program has a specific partnership with PS 28 in Paterson as one option for students interested in becoming elementary teachers. This course and experience focuses on introducing our students to a variety of reading and writing strategies and then implementing those with PS 28 students.

In addition, we place students in a variety of schools to complete the requirements of Literacy Theory and Practice.

Your final hands-on experience will be student teaching for a semester. Ramapo has many connections to assist in student teaching placement in the Bergen County area, but also encourages students to conduct their student teaching in a district closer to their hometown if they wish.

Engineering Physics

About Engineering Physics

Interested in how the universe works? Want to learn skills to solve real-world problems? If you have a passion for innovation and aim to work with cutting-edge technologies, consider majoring in Engineering Physics.

Physics is considered the most basic science. It covers both life and physical sciences. Engineering uses science to design, build, and test machines, processes, or projects for practical use. The skill in combining science and engineering is important for helping society grow.

The Engineering Physics program at Ramapo is designed for students who both enjoy and excel at physics, and are interested in how it relates to engineering. You will discover how to take on big challenges, such as developing clean energy solutions, enhancing medical technologies, or improving communication systems.

Graduates in Engineering Physics are needed in many fields. These include aerospace, robotics, electronics, optoelectronics, telecommunications, materials science, energy systems, and data science. The problem-solving skills you develop will make you a good candidate for jobs in consulting, finance, and software development.

Class you can take:

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Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)STEM Scholars

As you work toward your degree in Engineering Physics, you may discover a passion to teach. In 2024, Ramapo received a $1.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation. This grant is part of the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program. It aims to address the lack of STEM teachers.

The project aims to serve the national need of preparing well-qualified and experienced STEM secondary education teachers who are committed to teaching in high-needs school districts and prepared for the future of education. The grant provides funding over the next five years to create pathways and communities of practice to prepare STEM scholars for the future of education.

Some Jobs for Graduates with an Engineering Physics Degree

Aerospace Engineers
Perform engineering duties in designing, constructing, and testing aircraft, missiles, and spacecraft. May conduct basic and applied research to evaluate adaptability of materials and equipment to aircraft design and manufacture. May recommend improvements in testing equipment and techniques.

Agricultural Engineers
Agricultural engineers solve problems concerning power supplies, machine efficiency, the use of structures and facilities, pollution and environmental issues, and the storage and processing of agricultural products.

Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers
Bioengineers and biomedical engineers combine engineering principles with sciences to design and create equipment, devices, computer systems, and software.

Chemical Engineers
Chemical engineers apply the principles of chemistry, physics, and engineering to design equipment and processes for manufacturing products such as gasoline, detergents, and paper.

Civil Engineers
Perform engineering duties in planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of building structures and facilities, such as roads, railroads, airports, bridges, harbors, channels, dams, irrigation projects, pipelines, power plants, and water and sewage systems. Includes architectural, structural, traffic, and geotechnical engineers. Excludes “Hydrologists.”

Computer Hardware Engineers
Research, design, develop, or test computer or computer-related equipment for commercial, industrial, military, or scientific use. May supervise the manufacturing and installation of computer or computer-related equipment and components. Excludes “Software Developers” and “Web Developers.”

Electrical Engineers
Research, design, develop, test, or supervise the manufacturing and installation of electrical equipment, components, or systems for commercial, industrial, military, or scientific use. Excludes “Computer Hardware Engineers.”

Electronics Engineers, Except Computer
Research, design, develop, or test electronic components and systems for commercial, industrial, military, or scientific use employing knowledge of electronic theory and materials properties. Design electronic circuits and components for use in fields such as telecommunications, aerospace guidance and propulsion control, acoustics, or instruments and controls. Excludes “Computer Hardware Engineers.”

Environmental Engineers
Research, design, plan, or perform engineering duties in the prevention, control, and remediation of environmental hazards using various engineering disciplines. Work may include waste treatment, site remediation, or pollution control technology.

Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
Operate one or several types of power construction equipment, such as motor graders, bulldozers, scrapers, compressors, pumps, derricks, shovels, tractors, or front-end loaders to excavate, move, and grade earth, erect structures, or pour concrete or other hard surface pavement. May repair and maintain equipment in addition to other duties. Excludes “Extraction Workers” and “Crane and Tower Operators.”

Physicists
Conduct research into physical phenomena, develop theories on the basis of observation and experiments, and devise methods to apply physical laws and theories. Excludes “Biochemists and Biophysicists.”

Sources of Information:
*”Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics.” United States Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics, https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_stru.htm.

Hands-On Learning

While majoring in Engineering Physics, you will learn how to effectively apply concepts from theoretical physics to solve practical engineering problems.

Practical Skills

Engineering Physics majors can learn many important skills needed for working in a lab. These include:

  • the ability to gather and analyze data effectively
  • identifying and understanding errors in their work
  • creating graphs to represent your findings
  • applying statistical methods to interpret results

This comprehensive skill set not only enhances your hands-on experience but also prepares you for future work in scientific fields.

Engineering Physics Labs

Our facilities include laboratories equipped for electronics, advanced physics, computers, instrumentation, optics, and a machine shop.

The Engineering Physics major offers in-depth study into advanced topics such as electronics; mechanics, thermodynamics, electromagnetic theory and optics; relativity, atomic, and quantum theory; nuclear, sub-nuclear, and solid state physics; and computer science. You can learn about nanotechnology, quantum computing, renewable energy, semiconductor technology, and advanced materials.

Faculty

Ramapo faculty actively supports students pursuing undergraduate research in fields such as computer science, electronics, renewable energy, and optics. Professor Daniela Buna has had several of her students, supported through the McNair grant, present their work at national conferences. Dr. Buna developed the Materials Science laboratory, a research and teaching lab where students work on fabrication and characterization of thermoelectrics, superconductors and other materials.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded a $192K grant to Dr. Catalin Martin, professor of engineering physics, to study magneto-optical properties of a new class of materials called Weyl semimetals. The grant included financial support for students to work on research in the summer and their research was presented at the American Physical Society.

In the Optics Lab, students conduct research on terahertz imaging and photonics under the mentorship of Professor Caroline Brisson. Students presented at COPLAC conference.

Internships

Ramapo Engineering Physics majors have had internships with local organizations such as UPS, Glatt Air Techniques, A&J Consulting Engineering Services, PC,and European-American Business Organization, Inc.

 

English and Literary Studies

About English and Literary Studies

Ramapo’s English and Literary Studies major focuses on literature written in English as well as world literature in translation. We seek to engage the cultural, historical and theoretical frameworks in which texts thrive. While the curriculum is designed to develop and hone students’ reading, writing and research skills, our students truly “read the world” and are prepared to enter a complex, global citizenry.

English and Literary Studies is also home to the major’s creative writing concentration, and a minor for non-majors. Our students thrive creatively and produce the college’s literary magazine, attend performances by visiting writers, and develop their writing life.

Our students become engaged, thoughtful citizens who pursue distinguished careers, and are offered opportunities in internships, co-ops, and service learning placements. Whether preparing for graduate study, editing and publishing, teaching, public relations, library science, our students are capable of the increased flexibility, critical thinking and analytical skills necessary to succeed in today’s work force. Visit our Alumni Success Stories page and meet some of our graduates.

Classes you can take:

Our courses allow students to read all kinds of literature in all kinds of forms: poetry, fiction, graphic novels, film, drama, and more. Studying literature is a way to study all of life’s experiences, offering the thoughtful student a window into the lives of others. In our creative writing courses, students challenge their imagination and develop the discipline that marks the best writers.

Below are just a few of the many courses we offer:

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Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)

The popular press regularly notes that the flexibility of the degree makes English and Literary Studies Majors eminently hirable. Steve Strauss writes in USA Today, “I love [Literature majors’] ability to write well and think critically” (July 8, 2016). Business Insider routinely runs articles citing the desirability of hiring Literature/English Majors. Their June 2013 profile of Logitch CEO Bracken Darrell (himself a Literature major) suggests, Literature Majors’ “’soft skills’ are greatly needed in today’s technical world.” Mark Cuban echoed these sentiments in the same publication in his Feb. 17, 2017 article “Don’t Go To School For Finance — Liberal Arts Is The Future.”

The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) agree. Among their findings is that Liberal Arts majors “Earn More than Professional Majors at Peak Earnings Ages”:

“At peak earnings ages (56-60 years) workers who majored as undergraduates in the humanities or social sciences earn annually on average about $2000 more than those who majored as undergraduates in professional or pre-professional fields. These data include all college graduates working full-time, including those with only a baccalaureate degree and those with both a baccalaureate and graduate or professional degree.”

Also, Liberal Arts majors face lower unemployment rates:

“The unemployment rate for recent liberal arts graduates is 5.2 percent. The unemployment rate for mature workers with liberal arts degrees (41-50) is 3.5 percent—just .04 percent higher than the rates for those with a professional or preprofessional degree.” (See https://www.aacu.org/press/press-releases/new-report-documents-liberal-arts-disciplines-prepare-graduates-long-term).

Here is one way to think about the message of all of this research: it is easy to imagine a English and Literary Studies major taking an entry-level position at a brokerage house or bank (this happens frequently). It is much harder to imagine a Finance major walking into a high school English teaching position. While the data is there, this message is difficult to transmit. Below I will make some recommendations on this matter.

Hands-On Learning

The English and Literary Studies major balances survey and seminar, American, British, and world literature while you study genre, period, and theme. Your courses will emphasize the interdisciplinary and multicultural dimensions of literature and life.

Prepare for life with internships, co-ops, and service learning placements at organizations such as John Wiley & Sons, Simon & Schuster, the New York Public Library, the Margaret Sanger Papers Project, the Jane Addams Papers Project, The Feminist Press, Foxbusiness.com, Paterson Public Schools, and Stryker Orthopaedics.

You can choose to expand your career options by minoring or concentrating in Creative Writing. Majoring in English and Literary Studies is a practical choice that helps you develop the communications skills employers want. At the same time, students enjoy studying their favorite authors and discover new ones.
Fire up your imagination by getting involved with Trillium, the college literary magazine, or joining the English and Literary Studies Club and the Omega Omega Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta (the national English Honor Society).

Our students have had their work published in such publications as Salon, The Guardian, The Hairpin, Truth-Out, Buzzfeed, Esquire, Paste, Hazlett, Bustle, Femsplain, The New Republic, The Toast.

Trillium

About Minor

The English and Literary Studies minor has only one required courses. Student take LITR 203, one 300-level course. The other courses are up to the student. The English and Literary Studies Minor lets students hone their critical reading and writing skills while exploring literary texts from around the world and across history. Students are required to take 5 courses (20 credits) to complete the minor.

Entrepreneurship

About Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs are people who have an urge to create change in the world. For some people, this may mean creating an innovative product, starting a business to market the product, and scaling the business to generate a profit. Others are less interested in profit and aspire to transform the world by solving big societal problems, while others prefer to exercise their entrepreneurial ambitions within an existing organization, and work on behalf of their employer.

Regardless of the type of entrepreneur, all need the skills to be effective leaders, and the passion and drive to convert unique ideas and concepts into new products and services.

The Anisfield School of Business offers a Minor in Entrepreneurship that encourages the development of an entrepreneurial mindset among students and prepares them with the knowledge, skills, tools, and competencies required to foster actual startups. This program is for the recklessly optimistic, those with an irrepressible urge to create, and bold dreamers who imagine a different world and ask, “Why not?”

Through courses, clubs, and events, we offer a variety of opportunities for students to network with other prospective entrepreneurs. There are also a multitude of opportunities to participate in statewide and national pitch competitions, attend meetups, talks, demo sessions and other events, both on and off of campus, and on your own.

The Entrepreneurship minor is for students in any major who want to craft their dreams into a career and lead it in the direction of their choosing. If you are a maverick, renegade, eccentric, free spirit, or rule breaker who refuses to conform to the status quo, we’ve been waiting for you.

Required Classes:

The 4-course, 16-credit minor consists of the following:

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Environmental Science

About Environmental Science

Are you a champion of preserving the local forest or wetland ecosystems? Is climate change or alternative energy fascinating to you?

The Environmental Science major is designed to help you understand environmental complexities at local, regional and global scales from a scientific perspective. Students take an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to environmental problem solving, while gaining essential laboratory, field, communication, analytical and learning skills.

Classes you can take:

Field Botany: Angiosperms, Avian Ecology, Biological Conservation, Global Climate Change, Geology of N.J., Water Resources, Theoretical & Field Ecology, Environmental Physics, Paleontology & Paleoenvironments

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Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)

Our graduates enter a wide range of careers, including environmental testing, ecological field research, environmental consulting and impact assessment, environmental education, alternative energy, environmental planning, and working with local, state and federal government agencies.

The major is structured so that you may continue your studies at the graduate level in a variety of environmental-related areas. If you’re planning a career in education, you can also complete the Earth Science track.

Hands-On Learning

As an environmental science major, your curriculum is heavily experiential in nature, with strong laboratory and fieldwork

components in nearly every course, much of which takes place in the local scenic Highlands region. Advanced courses will help you acquire extensive theoretical and practical knowledge in advanced geology, environmental chemistry, field ecology and research.

You will also be encouraged to conduct independent research projects with environmental science faculty, and to participate in co-op education and fellowship opportunities with environmental consulting firms in the region.

Environmental Studies

About Environmental Studies

Do you see yourself as citizen of the planet? Do you have a vision to create a sustainable world by working side by side with government, business, and civil society to develop public policy and advocacy?

Environmental Studies will prepare you to be a leader in building an environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable society, that balances the needs of people today with the needs of future generations, while promoting environmental justice and enhancing ecological diversity. Your studies will focus on the spectrum from global to local, with an emphasis on critical thinking, effective communication, and hands-on participatory implementation.

Classes you can take:

World Sustainability, Natural History and Field Ecology, Environmental Law, Global Ethics, and Energy and Society

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Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)Master of Arts in Sustainability Studies

Hands-On Learning

As an Environmental Studies major, you will actively participate in fieldwork, internships, and study abroad opportunities, such as the American West program, the Venice program, and our semester-long South India program. A cutting-edge, hands-on learning site, the Sharp Sustainability Education Center is a custom-designed and green-built facility designed to demonstrate the components of a sustainable community, and currently includes solar and geothermal energy sources. The major also offers close faculty-student relationships through advisement, independent study, small classes, and interactive student organizations. You’ll have many opportunities for collaboration on projects, conferences, the annual Earth Week/ Month celebration, and the emerging movement to enhance campus sustainability while reducing the carbon footprint and ecological impacts of our collective everyday life at Ramapo.

Ethnicity & Race Studies

About Ethnicity & Race Studies

The Social Science contract major with a concentration in Ethnicity & Race Studies is offered through the School of Social Science and Human Services.

The Ethnicity & Race Studies concentration focuses on historical and sociocultural scholarship related to race and ethnicity including, but not limited to: contemporary race relations, intergroup dynamics, the African Diaspora, intersections with gender and class, and inequalities, privilege, and oppression. This concentration is a logical component of a student’s preparation for a career with international agencies, law, business, and public health, the social services, and teaching.

To complete the Ethnicity & Race Studies concentration within the Social Science contract major, within the 11 courses required for the major, students must complete one required course (either AFST 212: Introduction to African Studies or SOCI 215: Sociology of Race Relations) and three electives that focus on issues related to Ethnicity & Race.

Classes you can take:

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Finance

About Finance

Are you considering becoming a financial analyst or adviser? Ramapo’s Finance major is designed for students who are interested in working in these areas as well as in banking and corporate offices.

Ramapo’s Finance major will give you the knowledge, background and analytical skills necessary to manage money and investments within a rapidly changing business and regulatory environment.

4+1 FLEX MBA Option Available!

As a student in the Anisfield School of Business, you may also want to consider the pathway to the 4+1 Flex MBA Program, where you can earn both your undergraduate and your Master’s degree in just five years.  Undergraduate business majors get 12 credits of MBA Foundational courses waived, so you can get your MBA by taking just ten more courses (30 credits) after graduation.   Having an MBA is a universally-recognized credential that gives you an advantage in the job market and the skills and knowledge to take on leadership roles in business.  For more information please go to https://www.ramapo.edu/mba/ or email Dr. Juan Cabrera, MBA Program Director, at jcabrera@ramapo.edu

Classes you can take:

Corporate Finance, Management Statistics, Principles in Information Technology, Business Ethics

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Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)Hands-On Learning

As a student, you’ll have real-time access to the world’s financial data and state-of-the-art trading systems in our Global Financial Markets Trading Laboratory, especially when you take Corporate Finance and Securities and Investments courses. The lab allows your professors to give you valuable insights into how the financial and economic theories taught in the classroom apply in real financial markets.

Every student works closely with an assigned faculty advisor, especially if you decide to participate in a co-op or internship program at organizations such as: First Investor Corp, Gucci, Hanabergh & Associates, Merrill Lynch, Nationwide Planning Associates, Team-Baker and WorkplaceDiversity.com. You can also consider studying abroad with our China Immersion Experience and at the American University of Rome.

About Minor

The Finance minor is designed for students who want to obtain a background in the tools and
techniques of finance and financial analysis. The minor is open to all students regardless of
school affiliation.  The required courses are:

Once a student has completed the required courses, you may take any 3 other Finance electives.
Please note that at least half of the courses fulfilling a minor must be distinct from the student’s
major. That is, three of the six courses required for a minor cannot be used towards fulfillment of
major requirements. The Anisfield School of Business (ASB) core courses do not need to be completed for the minor.

Food Studies

About Food Studies

The minor in Food Studies focuses on the production, distribution and consumption of food in the context of social, biological and cultural analyses. It will provide students with a foundation to prepare them for graduate studies and/or a career in the industry. Students will have an intensive experience which will allow them to use their theoretical knowledge in practice and to provide them with opportunities for meaningful research.

Classes you can take:

Food and Culture, Nutrition and Human Metabolism, Food Science, Sustainable Agriculture, Food and Population

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Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)Hands-On Learning

Students will understand why some of the plants, animals, and microbes are chosen for our meals. Topics include: milk and dairy products, eggs, meat and fish, edible plant parts, candy and chocolate, wine and beer, processed food and food preservation, food safety and analysis. The biological basis and nutritional value of foods, and changes in food molecules during food preparation will be emphasized. The pathways of energy metabolism and the general metabolism of macro-nutrients will be studied. Students will learn about the metabolic rate and health impact of vitamins, minerals and fiber as well as the importance of energy balance and body composition and their relationship to obesity.

Students will also gain an understanding of conventional agricultural systems and sustainable agricultural systems (agro-ecology), with an emphasis on their environmental impacts. The needs and mechanics of growing food crops and livestock will be given. A review of the requirements for the conversion to a sustainable farm and the necessary information needed to start a farm will be provided.

Students will develop an awareness of the meanings of food among different cultures, and explore the ways in which geographic, cultural, political, and economic forces interact to influence food preferences, health, and nutritional status. The program will consider how gender, ethnicity, class, religion, the media, and corporate capitalism influence the manner in which we perceive, acquire, prepare, and consume food. Moreover, the courses will examine how we, through what and how we eat and do not eat, construct relationships with our bodies, with others, with our histories, with animals, and the environment.

Students will analyze the social structures and processes that influence food production, distribution, consumption, and how each of these affect human populations in developed and developing societies.

Internships in community supported agriculture and food science available.

French

French language students at Ramapo work in small classes and receive close, individualized attention and encouragement from their professors. In addition, technical support and personal assistance are available in the Electronic Learning Facility (ELF). The Electronic Learning Facility is a ultra-modern lab where, leading-edge technology allows interactive communications around the world.

In all our courses, French language is used as often as possible. Classes are conducted with an emphasis on oral communication, but writing, reading and the study of grammar are fully incorporated in our methodology. The appropriate sequence of courses enables a student to acquire a degree of fluency in the language and some insight into the diverse cultural aspects of the countries where the language is spoken.

 

Classes you can Take:

Intermediate French I, Intermediate French II, French Conversation and Composition, French Civilization, Business French I, French Cinema, Readings in French Literature

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Hands-On Learning

Additional materials are inserted in the general syllabus in order to motivate the students to participate effectively in their language acquisition. Cultural features are conveyed in order to present an authentic image of the language community. Texts, documents and other materials are presented with a global perspective, and stimulate honest, critical thinking among students on moral, social, political and economic values. Students are able to enroll in civilization, advanced conversation, cinema, business, or independent study courses.

Gender & Sexuality Studies

About Gender & Sexuality Studies

The Social Science contract major with a concentration in Gender & Sexuality Studies is offered through the School of Social Science and Human Services.

The Gender and Sexuality Studies concentration focuses on interdisciplinary scholarship about women, gender, and sexuality across cultures and their intersections with race, class, nationality, ability, age, among others. Students will also become acquainted with the current realities and history of feminism, gender, and sexualities in the U.S. and worldwide. Through courses in Gender and Sexuality Studies students gain a clearer sense of how to be engaged, ethical participants in the social world. The concentration is a logical component of a student’s preparation for a career in law, business, public health, the social services, and teaching.

To complete the Gender & Sexuality Studies concentration within the Social Science contract major, within the 11 courses required for the major, students must complete one required course (either PSYC 335: Sexualities & Gender Identities: LGBTQA+ or SOSC 280: Women in Contemporary Society) and three electives that focus on issues related to Gender & Sexuality Studies.

Classes you can Take:

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Gerontology

About Gerontology

Gerontology is the interdisciplinary study of the social, physical and cultural dimensions of aging. Gerontologists are concerned with creating environments for successful aging and with ensuring the maintenance of quality life experiences for the aging in our population. Since increasing numbers of Americans are living longer, there is a need for people trained in understanding the complex interaction between aging and society.

Classes you can Take:

Psychology of Aging, Sociology of Aging, Death and Dying, Introduction to Gerontology, Law and the Elderly, Physiology of Aging, Facing Death and Loss in Later Life, Human Behavior and Social Environment

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Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)Hands-On Learning

The gerontology program at Ramapo College is designed to introduce students to the various aspects of aging: the biology of aging, the psychology of aging, the sociology of the aging population, and issues of death and dying. In addition, we require gerontology students to do fieldwork with the aged or in an agency devoted to issues of aging to enable the students to get hands-on experience. The study of gerontology is highly recommended for students majoring in social work, psychology, sociology, nursing, or business administration.

The faculty who teach in the gerontology program come from a variety of disciplines within the college, and collectively have tremendous experience in the field. Some of their areas of expertise include:

  • The development of programs for caregivers
  • Direct service provision for older adults
  • Art therapy
  • Issues of death and dying
  • Human development over the life cycle
  • Community programs for older adults

Global Communication and Media

About Global Communication and Media

Do you enjoy deciphering messages embedded in print and electronic media? Would you be interested in learning more about how language, technology and economic structure are involved in the creation of those messages across different mediums?

Communication Arts majors learn the study and practice of the many tools, languages, technologies, media and discourses of and about culture. With a concentration in Global Communication and Media, your education will focus on developing research and writing skills in analyzing media forms and representations in order to become more effective producers and more critical consumers of media content.

Classes you can take:

Intercultural Communication, Campaign in Media and Film, Media and Popular Culture, Research and Writing Methods, Global/Multicultural Media Issues, Fundamentals of Interactive Media, Global Media, Local Change, Reporting & Producing Online News, Writing for Publication, Promotions Writing, Writing for Public Relations, Creative Advertising and Public Relations

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Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)Hands-On Learning

As a GC&M student, you’ll learn how to research, analyze, write, communicate and create media. Graduates leave with hands-on experience in the research, development and execution of communication and media campaigns in public relations, promotions, and/or related areas of media programming, production and management. You’ll also complete an internship that will provide valuable professional connections and experience. Ramapo students continue to intern for many organizations including 95.5 WPLJ Radio, The Rachel Show, Sesame Street, American Cancer Society, MTV, CBS, Fox Sports, Sony Records, NY Jets, Good Housekeeping, Clear Channel Media and BBC WorldWide Americas.

History

About History

People in the 21st century have unprecedented access to information, but have never been so confused, angry, and divided over the meaning of facts and truth. How do we know what is true? How can we verify “what happened?” At a time when free societies are vexed by disinformation and overwhelmed by data, somebody has to hold the line in defense of facts, accuracy, clarity, and perspective.

Historians do something that seems very old-fashioned today: we do real research. We gather the evidence, analyze it, and use it to explain what we know and how we know it. And then we write, we blog, we speak in public, we publish, and we teach.

If you’d like to join us, if you’d like to become one of those rare and valuable people who can be relied upon in a loud and confusing world, then a History degree from Ramapo College is excellent preparation for work as a writer, broadcaster, editor, or publisher; as a stepping-stone to a law degree or a career in business or government; as a teacher or scholar of almost any sort.

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Classes you can take:

Ramapo’s historians have published books and articles on subjects as diverse as immigration, sports history, women’s political activism, the Napoleonic Wars, ancient Mesopotamia, the American Revolution, the Ottoman Empire, the Nazi regime, the Atlantic slave trade, the Vietnam War, and many other topics. Students will have many opportunities to broaden and deepen their knowledge in a wide array of subjects. In addition to the required courses and a choice of electives, students will develop their own research, writing, and speaking skills and have many opportunities for hands-on learning.

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Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)Hands-On Learning

Ramapo offers a hands-on course in creating digital history, a course on history and game design, and is introducing new coop partnerships for the academic year 2022-23 and beyond.

About Minor

A Minor in History is five courses, plus your college Gen Ed requirements. It is a useful way to sharpen your research, writing, and speaking skills as you pursue a different major.

Human Resources Management

About Human Resources Management

The Anisfield School of Business Minor in Human Resource Management prepares students to have the knowledge, skills, tools, and competencies required to undertake and understand how to effectively manage human resources.

Human Resource Management is an inherently interdisciplinary applied discipline that builds on the foundations of psychology and business administration as well as the liberal arts and humanities. Students majoring in any subject will benefit from both the required and elective courses which cover principles of “maximizing human capital”. Students who combine a Human Resource Management minor with a management and/or psychology major will be well qualified for graduate education, masters or doctoral programs in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Management and/or a career as a human resource professional. These students will also be acquiring the foundational knowledge that will prepare them to take professional certification exams offered by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the HR Certification Institute. Given the demand for human resource professionals in a broad range of for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises, minoring in Human Resource Management is both a practical and savvy academic choice.

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Hands-On Learning

Coops and Internships are highly encouraged for the Minor in Human Resources Management. Minors in Human Resource Management will find many opportunities to engage in hands on learning in their courses, research, and through work assignments both internal and external to the College.

Human Rights and Genocide Studies

About Human Rights and Genocide Studies

The program emphasizes the study of human rights and genocide as academic and practical pursuits and aims to prepare students for graduate school, as well as career opportunities in international organizations, government, non-profits, multinational corporations, and the media. It is firmly anchored in the belief that establishing legal frameworks and erecting viable international support systems represent the best hope that humankind has to prevent genocide, torture, religious persecution, and other assaults upon human dignity and rights.

Classes you can Take:

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Hands-On Learning

Students will achieve an understanding of the origins, theory and practice of international human rights and the treatment of genocide as a crime under international law. Linkages to human rights and genocide prevention organizations and agencies located in the New York metropolitan area will be developed. Students will be encouraged to understand and question the implementation of human rights and genocide prevention theories and policies, as well as to acquire practical work experience through internships and other experiential learning opportunities. The development of communication skills, foreign language proficiency, and participation in study abroad opportunities will be promoted and supported. Student-faculty research projects will be encouraged. Co-curricular opportunities related to human rights will be provided by colloquia, guest lectures, and film screening, as well as by events organized by the Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The Cahill Center will provide valuable assistance in developing meaningful experiential learning opportunities for students.

About Minor

The program emphasizes the study of human rights and genocide as academic and practical pursuits and aims to prepare students for graduate school, as well as career opportunities in international organizations, government, non-profits, multinational corporations, and the media. It is firmly anchored in the belief that establishing legal frameworks and erecting viable international support systems represent the best hope that humankind has to prevent genocide, torture, religious persecution, and other assaults upon human dignity and rights.

Information Technology Management

About Information Technology Management

More so than ever, 21st century organizations recognize the value of information and the competitive advantage that it can provide. The result has been a huge demand for professionals who understand how to manage information and the related technology. The Information Technology Management (ITM) program provides students with the skills needed to evaluate, design and implement information systems and manage organizational technology and IT personnel.

As an ITM Major, you will take business, management and liberal arts courses related to information systems and technology to receive an integrated, interdisciplinary and international education in the theory and practice of information, technology and modern business.

The typical ITM student would have an interest in problem solving using technology, business and management. The program stresses “hands on” learning using real world applications and projects. Students can use electives to tailor the degree to specific interests such as cyber security, web development and data analytics.

4+1 FLEX MBA Option Available!

As a student in the Anisfield School of Business, you may also want to consider the pathway to the 4+1 Flex MBA Program, where you can earn both your undergraduate and your Master’s degree in just five years.  Undergraduate business majors get 12 credits of MBA Foundational courses waived, so you can get your MBA by taking just ten more courses (30 credits) after graduation.   Having an MBA is a universally-recognized credential that gives you an advantage in the job market and the skills and knowledge to take on leadership roles in business.  For more information please go to https://www.ramapo.edu/mba/ or email Dr. Juan Cabrera, MBA Program Director, at jcabrera@ramapo.eduThe ITM degree provides the flexibility to prepare the student for a number of occupations within the high demand technology and business fields. By combining the required courses with selected electives and co-ops, internships and certifications, the student can tailor their degree to fit the requirements of a specific technology-related occupation. Students can focus on cyber security, web development, data analytics or management of technology and people.

Classes you can take:

Core Courses:

Cyber Security Electives:

Web Development Electives:

Data Analytics Electives:

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Classes are taught in a modern technological environment featuring laboratory networks with the latest software and the web, cloud and application technologies widely used for in-class, blended and online methods of learning and collaboration.

You can also choose from a wide range of current advanced topics including app and web development, decision support systems, Internet-based technologies, computer law and ethics, and information security management.

Ramapo students have held internships at workplaces such as UPS, Global Image Works, Glatt Air Techniques, Mercedez-Benz, NBC Universal, the United Nations and Storis Inc.

About Minor

The goal of the Minor program in Information Technology Management (ITM) is to provide Ramapo College students with an option to develop a competency in the field of information systems/technology that will complement their major program of study. Students with a Minor in Information Technology Management will be better prepared to work in their major fields since information systems/technology is an integral component of the world today. A Minor in Information Technology Management should have strong appeal for students majoring in accounting who are required to earn 150 credits of academic coursework in order to qualify for the CPA examination.

Integrated Science Studies

About Integrated Science Studies

Does the intersection of the traditional sciences (biology, chemistry, and physics) interest you? Do you have a hard time identifying one as your main area of study? Wouldn’t it be interesting to see how the roles of sciences play out in social, political and economic contexts?

The Integrated Science Studies major at Ramapo provides an opportunity to pursue all of the above. Integrated Science Studies enables detailed but integrated knowledge of the sciences by engaged study in a range of courses, including laboratory courses—from chemistry, physics, and biology to geology, ecology, and environmental science—as well as in mathematics. As you move into your upper level courses, this unique Ramapo major allows you to tailor your coursework to pursue specific scientific areas.

Classes you can take:

Fundamentals of Biology, General Ecology, Writing for Publication, Intro to Environmental Science, Environmental Writing, Business Law I, Science Technology & Society

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You’ll study in Ramapo’s well equipped modern laboratories and have opportunities to gain hands-on experience by participating in cooperative education programs with facilities such as Alpha Physician Resources, Wayne Orthopedic, Pfizer Pharmaceutical, Flat Rock Brook Nature Center, Emilcott, and the Meadowlands Environment Center. Once going through your core foundation and major requirement classes, you can apply to be admitted to one of four upper level concentrations of the major: Science Technology and Society, Science Journalism, Business Administration / MBA Track, and Public Policy/Administration.

International Business

About International Business

Would you love to examine how global political and economic forces are shaping the future? Or consider potential risk factors for US business in the world markets?

International Business uniquely combines specialized business skills with interdisciplinary opportunities to take courses in political science and history to broaden your perspectives and intellectual abilities. Focusing on the role of the U.S. in the international business environment, you’ll develop a heightened awareness of the changing political and social aspects of countries around the globe.

4+1 FLEX MBA Option Available!

As a student in the Anisfield School of Business, you may also want to consider the pathway to the 4+1 Flex MBA Program, where you can earn both your undergraduate and your Master’s degree in just five years.  Undergraduate business majors get 12 credits of MBA Foundational courses waived, so you can get your MBA by taking just ten more courses (30 credits) after graduation.   Having an MBA is a universally-recognized credential that gives you an advantage in the job market and the skills and knowledge to take on leadership roles in business.  For more information please go to https://www.ramapo.edu/mba/ or email Dr. Juan Cabrera, MBA Program Director, at jcabrera@ramapo.edu

Classes you can take:

Chinese Culture & Civilization, Politics of Globalization, European Business Community, American Government, Effective Hiring, International Marketing, Multinational Finance, Cost Accounting, Politics of International Investment

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Our International Business graduates have made careers with corporations engaged in international business activities in accounting, marketing, finance, government, education and management. Employers who have hired our our International Business majors include Mercedes-Benz, NBC Universal, and Toys “R” Us.

Ramapo studies have continued their education as well with graduate work with focuses in business, liberal arts, and language studies. Graduate schools that our International Business majors have attended include the University of Edinburgh.

Hands-On Learning

Did you know Internationalism is at the core of Ramapo’s mission? Your courses will introduce you to international studies, fundamentals of international business, macroeconomics/microeconomics, language studies, and international business. You’ll select a concentration in a part of the world to specialize in, such as East Asian, European, Global, Latin American or American (U.S.) Studies. Finally you’ll also choose an area of business to focus on in management, accounting, finance, marketing, economics, or computer information systems.

Your major requires an international experience such as a corporate internship or study abroad – Ramapo is affiliated with programs in over 70 countries. Consider our China Immersion Experience where you will live and visit Shanghai and Beijing while learning first hand from local and international business communities, officials, students and professors.

Ramapo students have gained internship experience at European-American Business Organization, Merrill Lynch, Ralph Lauren Polo, Venezuelan Consulate, and Global Alliance for Women’s Health.

International Studies

About International Studies

Do you want to know more about the world and experience it as a ‘global village’? Are you curious about other cultures? Does learning about the world through international experiences appeal to you? Are you interested in learning a foreign language to better understand others and to engage with people from other countries?

The International Studies program seeks to prepare students for the complex, challenging, dynamic, and interdependent global world of the 21st century. The program focuses on the political, economic, and cultural interdependencies and their effects on people in the emerging global system.

Classes you can take:

As an interdisciplinary major, courses from many different disciplines count toward the major. These include anthropology, communications, history, and political science. While there are a few required courses, students can choose the fields they would like to take for most of their requirements. Some students choose to focus primarily in one discipline, while others take a broad range of courses across disciples.

Popular courses include: Comparative Politics, International Politics, Food and Culture, World Cultures, Urban Anthropology, Politics of Developing Nations, Chinese Culture and Civilization, Contemporary Latin America, Women in Middle East Societies.

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We are often asked what specific of careers a major in International Studies might lead to. The interdisciplinary nature of the major and the wide array of courses that count towards the program mean that our graduates pursue a broad array of career paths. We also maintain strong connections with our graduates who often serve as mentors to current students and guide them into their future career paths.

A degree in International Studies provides an excellent basis for a wide range of careers, as well as for admission to graduate and professional schools, which are increasingly seeking “globally literate” individuals. Recent graduates have been accepted to prestigious graduate programs in international relations, political science, anthropology, public health, public policy, law, social work, and education at institutions such as Johns Hopkins University, Boston University, Columbia University, George Washington University, New York University, The New School, and The School for International Training. Additionally, many of our students have received prestigious grants and fellowships such as the Fulbright and Boren.

Typical career tracks for International Studies students include government, international business, law, non-governmental organizations and non-profits, international education, and multinational organizations.

Examples of positions that some of our alumni hold:

  • Economist & Operations Analyst, The World Bank Group;
  • Consular and Administrative Officer, Consulate General of Ireland in New York;
  • Proctor, United States Senate;
  • Logistics Management Specialist, United States Department of Defense;
  • Senior Financial Analyst, Johnson & Johnson;
  • Assistant Vice-President – Prime Brokerage Client Operations, Credite Suisse;
  • Corporate Recruiter, Wright-Pierce; Marketing Coordinator, Quinn Emanuel;
  • AmeriCorp Program Manager, NORWESCAP;
  • Manager of Academic Programs, CIEE Council on International Education Exchange;
  • Manager of Digital Initiatives, American Museum of Natural History NYC;
  • Senior Grants Writer, NJ Transit;
  • Membership and Special Events Coordinator, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences;
  • Program Manager, Office of Global Experiences at the University of Pittsburgh;
  • Law Clerk, United States District Court Judicial Law Clerk, New Jersey Superior Court;
  • Litigation Associate -Government Contracts, Fox Rothschild LLP;
  • Immigration Paralegal, Santana Law Group;
  • Lecturer in International Relations, University of Pennsylvania;
  • ESL Faculty, Bergen Community College;
  • High School Social Studies Teacher, Immaculate Heart Academy;
  • Senior Wellness Coordinator & COVID-19 Case Management Assistant, Premise Health;
  • Health Policy Advisor, Partners in Health in Sierra Leone;
  • Resident Medical Officer, Queensland Health Australia;
  • Licensed Professional Counselor, Safe Haven Counseling;
  • Group Manager – Lifecycle Marketing, The Washington Post;
  • Editorial Staff, Carnegie Corporation of New York;

Hands-On Learning

International Studies majors are required to fill an experiential learning requirement (ideally a semester-long study abroad, or an international cooperative education, internship, or service-learning course). You can enrich and broaden your academic program through participation in The Model United Nations Club, the International Student Organization, and other college organizations and clubs.

Ramapo students have gained real-world work experience with organizations such as Global Alliance for Women’s Health, Margaret Sanger Papers Project, Mercedes Benz, Seiko Corporation of America, National Organization for Women, Thomson Reuters, and American Business Forum on Europe. On the global stage, our students have studied abroad in a wide array of locations such as Argentina, Chile, Italy, Japan, Nepal, South Korea, and Spain to name a few.

About Minor

The International Studies minor seeks to prepare students for the complex, challenging, and dynamic interdependent world of the 21st century. As we enter this “global village,” the acquisition of new skills, additional knowledge and wisdom will be necessary for effective citizenship and career aspirations. The International Studies minor is designed to meet this challenge.

The program focuses on political, economic, and cultural interdependencies and their effects on people in the emerging global system. Interdisciplinary issues of war and peace, economic and political development, and cross-cultural communication are examined, as are global concerns of population, environment, and human rights. International Studies students become knowledgeable about another world culture, and become proficient in another language.

A minor will complement Political Science, History, International Business, Spanish Language Studies, Communication Arts, and a variety of other majors.

Italian

About Italian

Italian language students at Ramapo work in small classes and receive close, individualized attention and encouragement from their professors. In addition, technical support and personal assistance are available in the Electronic Learning Facility (ELF). The Electronic Learning Facility is a ultra-modern lab where, leading-edge technology allows interactive communications around the world.

In all our courses, Italian language is used as often as possible. Classes are conducted with an emphasis on oral communication, but writing, reading and the study of grammar are fully incorporated in our methodology. The appropriate sequence of courses enables a student to acquire a degree of fluency in the language and some insight into the diverse cultural aspects of the countries where the language is spoken.

Classes you can Take:

Intermediate Italian, Italian Cinema, Italian Culture and Society, Italian Conversation & Composition, Business Italian

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Hands-On Learning

Additional materials are inserted in the general syllabus in order to motivate the students to participate effectively in their language acquisition. Cultural features are conveyed in order to present an authentic image of the language community. Texts, documents and other materials are presented with a global perspective, and stimulate honest, critical thinking among students on moral, social, political and economic values. Students are able to enroll in civilization, advanced conversation, cinema, business, or independent study courses.

Journalism

About Journalism

At Ramapo College, the Communication Arts major with Journalism concentration focuses on developing skills of a digital journalist with a grounding in basic reporting and writing. Students learn how to develop and pitch story ideas, find and interview diverse sources, mine documents and social media to gather news and information. Students report, write and produce multimedia stories across platforms, and learn how to tell immersive stories on mobile and emerging technology.

Classes you can take:

News Writing, Reporting and Producing Online News, Producing Radio Documentaries and Podcasts,
Community Journalism, Producing the Newspaper, Video Journalism, Media Issues and Ethics, Mobile Journalism, Writing for Social Networking, Copy Editing and Photojournalism

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As a Ramapo student studying Journalism, you’ll have plenty of options for internships and co-ops in the area. Ramapo students have gained experience interning at CBS News, NBC, The New York Post, Newsmax Media, Inc. Next Play Sports, WABC-TV, Telemundo, Seventeen Magazine and The Record. You can also hone your reporting, writing and online production skills by joining our campus newspaper, The Ramapo News and radio station, WRPR.

Judaic Studies

About Judaic Studies

The Judaic Studies minor offers a program of study in Jewish history and culture that provides understanding of Jewish heritage and contributions to Western and Middle Eastern culture. Students may use the facilities of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies housed at Ramapo College.

Classes you can Take:

Jews in 20th Century Europe, Paradigms of Genocide, Biblical Archaeology and History, The Hebrew Bible, Sociology of Religion, Foundations – Hebrew, Intermediate Hebrew

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Labor, Work, & Organizations

About Labor, Work, & Organizations

The Social Science contract major with a concentration in Labor, Work, & Organizations is offered through the School of Social Science and Human Services.

The concentration in Labor, Work and Organizations focuses on the historical and socio-economic aspects of the labor process, work organizations and the relationship between work and other aspects of life including, but not limited to: the state, the legal apparatus, and the family. In addition, students enrolled in the concentration will understand the role of human resources, education and training in the work environment.

To complete the Labor, Work, and Organizations concentration within the Social Science contract major, within the 11 courses required for the major, students must complete one required course (either PSYC 345: Industrial & Organizational Psychology or SOCI 361: Gender, Work, & Family) and three electives that focus on issues related to Labor, Work, & Organizations.

An internship is recommended, but optional.

Classes you can take:

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Latino/a and Latin American Studies

About Latino/a and Latin American Studies

Latino/a and Latin American Studies is an exciting interdisciplinary minor. Traditional disciplines (such as history, sociology, literature, language) are organized into a program of study so that the student may develop familiarity with history, politics and social issues in Latin America as well as a knowledge of the complexity of Latino/a cultures and studies in the United States. Students who complete this minor should be able to demonstrate a critical understanding of U.S.–Latin American relations and sensitivity to the global, diverse nature of cultural issues in Latin America and those surrounding the Latinx community in the U.S.

The minor is offered by a faculty with varied backgrounds. Classes are offered on a regular basis in sociology, history, Spanish language and literature. In addition, there are courses offered in art, music, media and migration, to name a few.

Latinos are now 60 million or 18% of the U.S. population, and are expected to nearly double by 2050, according to U.S. Census Bureau projections.  College graduates will increasingly encounter Latinos in the workplace and community, and so learning about their history, culture, social and economic issues will add depth to future interactions with Latinx in the U.S. and Latin America.

Classes you can Take:

Latin American Culture and Civilization, Latin American Culture and Society, Contemporary Latin America, Latino Images and Hollywood, Colonial Latin America, Doing Business in Latin America, Human Rights in Latin America, U.S. – Latin American Relations, New York as a Latino Cityscape, Music in Latin America

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Law and Society

About Law and Society

Your Law and Society degree is a broad-based interdisciplinary study in the humanities and social sciences. That means that it provides a solid foundation for many career options, including public service, law enforcement, healthcare, social services and legal administration.

A number of Law and Society Ramapo graduates enter law school each year including Boston College LawSchool, Georgetown Law, New York Law School, Pace Law School, Rutgers School of Law, John Jay College, Seton Hall, and Syracuse University. Ramapo also offers a joint B.A./J.D Degree with Seton Hall Law School; this guaranteed admissions program is designed so that high achieving high school students who meet outlined criteria can be accepted to Ramapo and be guaranteed admission to Seton Hall Law School four years later.

Classes you can take:

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Your Law and Society degree is a broad-based interdisciplinary study in the humanities and social sciences. That means that it provides a solid foundation for many career options, including public service, law enforcement ,health care, social services, and legal administration.

A number of Law and Society Ramapo graduates enter law school each year including Boston College LawSchool, Georgetown Law, New York Law School, Rutgers School of Law, John Jay College and Syracuse University. Ramapo also offers a joint B.A./J.D Degree with Seton Hall Law School; this guaranteed admissions program is designed so that high achieving high school students who meet outlined criteria can be accepted to Ramapo and be guaranteed admission to Seton Hall Law School four years later.

Hands-On Learning

https://catalog.ramapo.edu/programs/SvSnJqfr5PHwd7z1p7iFAs a Law and Society Major, you’ll dive deeper into your studies through independent study, field work, and your Senior Thesis. Popular internships for our students have included the Mahwah Police Department, Bergen County Police Department, Bergen County Municipal Court, Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), county and city courts, law firms, and state senators. Recent internship highlights include the United Nations, White House, and the international law firm White & Case (Germany).

The Ramapo Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) Center offers another opportunity for Law and Society majors to obtain hands-on experience in a new and exciting field in the only undergraduate training program in IGG in the country. The IGG Workshop (LAWS 365), where students learn how to conduct IGG and work on real cases from the IGG Center, provides 4-credits towards the Law and Society major. After completing the IGG Workshop, select students may continue to work on real cases of violent crime, unidentified human remains, and wrongful convictions at the IGG Center

All students in law and society must write a substantial thesis as their capstone. The best theses are published in the Ramapo Journal of Law and Society (www.ramapo.edu/law-journal), one of the few undergraduate law and society journals in the country. The Journal is run by Ramapo students, most of whom are law and society majors.

Our students also have an opportunity to organize and participate in our signature event series, the World of Law and SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) Discussion Series. The program is open to the entire college community, and has featured speakers from, among others, the Bronx Defenders, Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office, Children’s Rights, Center for Reproductive Rights, Legal Aid, American Friends Service Committee, Outten & Golden.

About Minor

Crime and Justice Studies Minor

The Crime and Justice Studies minor provides students with the knowledge to understand the problem of crime in its broad societal context—social, cultural, political, and economic, both nationally and internationally. This includes understanding the causes and consequences of crime, criminal justice policy, and the role of law in redressing or reinforcing inequality and social problems with criminogenic ramifications.

Management

About Management

The IDEALs of Management – Inclusive, Dynamic, Entrepreneurial and Adaptive Leaders of Tomorrow

Students with a Management major learn how to innovate and thrive in the large, small, family-run and social purpose organizations that will shape our collective future. This objective is reached through coursework that carefully examines how to recruit, develop, engage, manage, motivate and retain an organization’s workforce and cultivate its future leaders; how to effectively lead during a crisis; how to envision, build and maintain inclusive, ethical, forward-looking organizational cultures; how to foster creativity and innovation; and how to optimize the operations function in support of a sustainable future.

Whether you plan to be a leader of tomorrow through entrepreneurship, to support the development of leadership skills in others through a career in human resource management, to specialize in organizational analysis for positive social impact or to focus on helping organizations optimize and green their operations function, the Management program at Ramapo College will help you reach your goals.

4+1 FLEX MBA Option Available!

4+1 FLEX MBA Option Available!

As a student in the Anisfield School of Business, you may also want to consider the pathway to the 4+1 Flex MBA Program, where you can earn both your undergraduate and your Master’s degree in just five years. Undergraduate business majors get 12 credits of MBA Foundational courses waived, so you can get your MBA by taking just ten more courses (30 credits) after graduation. Having an MBA is a universally-recognized credential that gives you an advantage in the job market and the skills and knowledge to take on leadership roles in business. For more information please go to https://www.ramapo.edu/mba/ or email Dr. Juan Cabrera, MBAProgram Director, at jcabrera@ramapo.edu.

The Management major is presented with 2 core courses, 1 required experiential course, and a variety of electives organized into 3 tracks reflecting specific career paths, offering students the option to specialize in a track they choose or to gain competence in courses from several tracks.

Classes you can take:

The core courses are: Human Resource Management and Leadership Strategy & Skill, and the menu of experiential courses includes Management Practicum, Launchpad: Entrepreneurial Skill Building, and Organizational Analysis.
The elective tracks are: Leadership and Talent Management, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, and Operations and Sustainability Management.

Required Classes:

Experiential Classes:

Leadership and Talent Management:

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management:

Operations and Sustainability Management:

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Hands-On Learning

Management majors will find experiential learning opportunities in all of their major classes and can opt to take a Management Practicum designed to academically augment their experiences in co-ops, internships and other paid employment.

Marketing

About Marketing

If you see yourself as creative, personable, and tuned-in to the cultural forces that shape today’s business environment, then Marketing is a perfect major for you. The Marketing major at Ramapo College is designed to prepare you with the essential skills to succeed in today’s social-media based, digital-first marketing world.

Through hands-on learning experiences, you will learn cutting-edge marketing strategies, including consumer behavior, marketing research, integrated marketing communication, international marketing, digital marketing, social media marketing, new product development, brand management, sales management, retail management, marketing management, and more.

4+1 FLEX MBA Option Available!

As a student in the Anisfield School of Business, you may also want to consider the pathway to the 4+1 Flex MBA Program, where you can earn both your undergraduate and your Master’s degree in just five years.  Undergraduate business majors get 12 credits of MBA Foundational courses waived, so you can get your MBA by taking just ten more courses (30 credits) after graduation.   Having an MBA is a universally-recognized credential that gives you an advantage in the job market and the skills and knowledge to take on leadership roles in business.  For more information please go to https://www.ramapo.edu/mba/ or email Dr. Juan Cabrera, MBA Program Director, at jcabrera@ramapo.edu

Classes you can take:

Consumer Behavior, Integrated Marketing Communication, Marketing Research, Marketing Management, Ethics in Business, International Marketing, Sales Management, Retail Management, E-marketing, New Product Management, and Branding & Brand Management

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Hands-On Learning

Through a broad curriculum of liberal arts and business courses, the Marketing Program will prepare you for the challenges presented in today’s complex business world. You’ll be provided with a solid foundation in marketing theory and a secure understanding of the marketing environment.

Ramapo Marketing students have completed internships and co-ops with various organizations including: American Cancer Society, Food Network Magazine, New Jersey Devils, Redbook, Michael Kors and The DSM Group. You can also consider studying abroad – students have recently studied at Bond University in Australia, the University of Economics in Prague and the University College Dublin in Ireland.

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

About Master of Business Administration (MBA)

If you are looking to advance your business career, make yourself more competitive on the job market, or considering a career-change, our MBA Program offers flexible and practical learning experiences designed to accommodate undergraduate business majors and non-business majors:

  • Business Majors: Save time and money completing the MBA as a “4+1” program, taking just 10 courses (30 credits); 12 credits of foundational business courses are waived
  • Non-Business Majors: Complete 12 credits of foundational business courses, then just 30 credits more to complete the degree
  • Working Professionals: Work full-time while you complete your degree; classes are offered at night and/or online for better work-life balance

The Anisfield School of Business is accredited by AACSB, a recognition that establishes ASB as a member of an elite group of worldwide business schools. Out-of-state students pay no additional fees to enroll.

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Master Science in Applied Mathematics (MSAM) & 4+1 Program

About M.S. in Applied Mathematics (MSAM)

An Applied Mathematics degree can open doors into many different industries including operations research, data science, finance, statistics, and research. The mathematical reasoning, computational skills, and ability to apply them to solve real problems are all skills valued by employers and provide many of the goals of this program.

Being part of the Center for Data, Mathematical, and Computational Sciences provides additional collaborative opportunities between the Applied Mathematics and the Data Science and Computer Science programs.  The intersecting curricula gives enrolled students an additional interdisciplinary perspective in all courses, including mathematics courses, which will make them highly effective team members in the workplace.

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Master Science in Computer Science (MSCS) & 4+1 Program

About M.S. in Computer Science (MSCS)

Computer Scientists build software systems, drive progress in artificial intelligence, across nearly every modern business sector in our economy. Computer Scientists are employed by hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturers, financial and trading firms, sports teams, marketing agencies, and of course, tech companies. Glassdoor routinely ranks various software developer / computer science careers among the very top best jobs America, including Enterprise Architects, Mobile and Software Engineering, along with language specific careers focused on Java, C++, C# and web technologies.

Our Master of Science in Computer Science (MSCS) degree is a 30-credit program with course work in Theory of Computation, Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Networks, Machine Learning and Database Systems, Full-time students will complete their degree in two years, however students may work towards the degree part-time as well. Courses are delivered as a combination of online, hybrid, and evening in-seat format.

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Master Science in Data Science (MSDS) & 4+1 Program

About M.S. in Data Science (MSDS)

Data Science sits at the intersection of mathematics and computer science and is applied to a boundless set of disciplines – including health, physical sciences, business, environmental studies, sociology, and political science.

Data Scientists collect, synthesize, and analyze big data to drive scientific discovery and business opportunities. Data Scientists are skilled in programming languages like R and Python and leverage advanced knowledge in statistics, machine learning, and data visualization to meet the demands of modern business and science.

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Coursework includes R, Python, Advanced Database Systems, Machine Learning, Applied Statistics, and Mathematical Modelling. In addition, we are building partnerships with local industries to create fieldwork opportunities for our students – so you will work on real-world problems while earning credit towards your degree.

Classes you can take:

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A signature feature of the M.S. program is Fieldwork Experience (DATA 730) projects. These projects focus on real-world problems brought to the program by industry sponsors. Students work closely with faculty and sponsors over one or more semesters. The model gives industry sponsors access to our students and our faculty to help create business value/insights, explore new ideas and build new products while also creating a pipeline for talented students to join them after graduation.

Mathematics

About Mathematics

Is math your favorite subject? Do you enjoy problem solving or working with quantitative data? Would you like to become a high school or middle school math teacher and have a competitive degree to get the best job at the best schools? If so, then you should consider getting your degree in Mathematics.

Choose from one of the two Mathematics Tracks we offer:

  • Mathematics Traditional Track
  • Mathematics with Teacher Certification Track

At Ramapo College, the Mathematics program is of high quality and tailored to meet your career needs whether you are looking for a traditional major or concentrating on a teacher education track. A blend of pure and applied mathematics courses is offered to provide students with a firm and diverse foundation to pursue graduate study, to teach at the secondary or elementary school level, or to seek employment in industry.

The Mathematics Convening Group also offers a Master’s Degree in Applied Mathematics as well as two minor programs: A Mathematics Minor and a Statistics Minor (see Related Programs below).

Mathematics Convening Group Website 

Classes you can take:

Multivariable Calculus, Number Theory, Abstract Algebra, Linear Algebra, Physics with Calculus. Probability

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Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)

Your degree in Mathematics offers a diversity of job opportunities, especially when paired with a required semester in computer science. You can pursue a career in such areas as actuarial science (primarily in the insurance industry), quantitative analysis (a growing field in the financial industry), market research, scientific programming, biomedical statistics, cryptography (one of the nation’s largest employers of mathematicians is the National Security Agency), market trading (such as Wall Street) and diverse other fields.

Of course, if you graduate with a Mathematics degree with a teacher education concentration, you’ll be qualified to teach in elementary and secondary NJ schools. Not to mention, you can also go on to graduate or professional studies. Ramapo graduates have gone on to attend Ph. D. programs at Harvard University, Bryn Mawr College, University of Denver, and Lehigh University, as well as graduate programs at Arizona State University and Vanderbilt University.

Hands-On Learning

Mathematics students have gained real world experience by participating in math-related internships with places such as: Allegro School, NJ School Districts K-12, Rockland Child Development Services (RCDS), Shelter Our Sister, the YWCA of Bergen County, Tipping Point, United Parcel Service (UPS), and Teach for America. Students who are mathematics majors in the teacher certification track gain hands-on experience by completing a semester of student teaching as well as by completing field experience components of their teacher education courses.

Medical Imaging Science

About Medical Imaging Science

How would you like to use ultrasound imaging to diagnose a heart condition? Or find out how you can use non-invasive testing for stroke prevention?

The Medical Imaging Science major is designed for students who would like to train in the fields of diagnostic medical sonography, or cardiac and  vascular technology. These trained health care professionals work alongside physicians and other professionals in the diagnosis and care of patients.

Classes you can take:

Fundamentals of Biology, Genetics, Cell & Molecular Biology, Statistics, Calculus, Ecological Anthropology, Computer Law and Ethics, Bio-Organic Chemistry

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As a medical imaging science major, you’ll choose from four concentrations, depending on your career path interests.

  • Cardiac Sonography
  • Diagnostic Medical Sonography
  • Vascular Sonography
  • Nuclear Medicine Technology

Hands-On Learning

This program is jointly offered through Ramapo College of New Jersey and Rutgers – School of Health Professions. (Rutgers SHP) Applications to the professional phase of the program are due January 15 of your junior year.

Students must complete 96 credits including the General Education requirements, TAS requirements, and a preprofessional core. Students who transfer to Ramapo College must complete 48 credits at Ramapo, 29.5 of which are science and math courses in the major before completing the program at Rutgers-SHP. They then complete a 46-50 -credit professional program at Rutgers-SHP. This latter part takes 15 months starting in the fall  after the junior year.

Museum and Exhibition Studies

About Museum and Exhibition Studies

The Museum and Exhibition Studies Minor serves students interested in learning about the role that museums and other exhibition spaces serve in society. It is a first step for those interested in careers in museums, whether in education, research, design, development, or communications.  The program combines historical study with site visits, case studies, and the choice of an internship or the opportunity to engage in the analysis of emerging museum and exhibition practices through a guided independent study.

Classes you can take:

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Music (General Overview)

About Music (General Overview)

Ramapo College is one of the only colleges in the U.S. that provides a distinctly forward-thinking approach to music education, embracing inclusive interdisciplinary teaching philosophies, widely diverse creative and performance opportunities, and advanced technologies in a liberal arts environment. A uniquely progressive foundation in musicianship and music history enables you to delve into popular, non-Western and European art musics, and develop entrepreneurial strategies that empower you to turn your passions into a successful career. Faculty mentors encourage music majors to explore combining music Concentrations (out of the five Concentrations below), flexible course options, independent projects, or teacher certification. Undergraduate students have the opportunity to earn a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Music Technology through our 4+1 program.  

Ramapo music majors study with faculty who have internationally prestigious careers as producers, composers, performers, directors, managers, technologists and researchers. Explore and develop skills in our leading-edge studio facilities, and establish the foundation for your post-college music career through our highly regarded internship program that enables you to gain professional experience with top level music companies in New York City. Join our diverse, creative musical community and make your contribution to shaping the future of music.

Music Education

Music Education prepares students for careers teaching music. The progressive curriculum balances traditional and contemporary music studies with a global perspective, diverse hands-on experiences, creative teaching projects, and individualized instruction. With this forward leaning and flexible foundation, students are prepared for success in today’s diverse music classrooms. Students may complete Teacher Certification through the Teacher Education program in coordination with the Music Education concentration.

Music Industry

Music Industry prepares students for careers in the contemporary music business. The curriculum features studies in music copyright, music publishing and recording industries, music marketing, promotion, and touring and live concerts. The relationship of music, business, and technology in the rapidly changing digital media landscape is strongly emphasized. Music Industry students are also responsible for the management and oversight of Ramix Music, a college-sponsored record label.

Music Performance

Music Performance provides students with wide-ranging opportunities to develop strong technique, build performing skills, and find their unique sound and style. Solo and group performance experiences span from award-winning international touring Choral Ensembles, Ramapo Chorale, Gospel Chorus, Concert Band, and Jazz Ensemble to Brazilian Latin Percussion Ensemble,, digital performance, singer-songwriting and student-led bands.. Students interested in teaching may combine the Performance and Music Education concentrations.

Music Production

Music Production emphasizes a creative approach to a wide range of topics relevant to music technology including sound synthesis, electronic composition and performance, audio mixing and mastering, acoustics, interactive media and live concert sound.  Students have access to state of the art resources in the Ramapo Les Paul Recording Studio and Electronic Music Lab.

Music Studies

Music Studies focuses on the analytical and interpretive disciplines of music, honing skills to research and write about music in historical, cultural, and international contexts. The concentration includes music performance and interdisciplinary studies. Music Studies prepares students for graduate studies in musicology/ethnomusicology and careers in music journalism and art administration.

Students completing this program will receive a B.A. degree. A flexible Minor in Music is available.

Classes you can take:

Business of Music, Digital Music Performance, Gospel Chorus, Film Music, History of Jazz, History of Rock ‘n Roll, History of Rap & Hip-Hop, Improvisation, Intermediate Performing Ensemble (Chamber, Jazz, Concert Band, Vocal), Music in Asia, Music in the Classroom, Music in Latin America, Music Online, Music Performance, Ramapo Chorale, Recording Arts, Song Writing, Technique classes for Guitar, Keyboard and Singers

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Hands-On Learning

The Music major begins with foundational studies in three areas: musicianship, music history and culture, and musical technologies and media. You will then select from one of four concentrations:

  • Music Industry: The Music Industry concentration focuses on the many facets of the creative and professional worlds in the rapidly changing international music business.
  • Music Performance: Music Performance is particularly experiential, developing musical skills and fostering individual expression in diverse styles and also provides a foundation for students who might pursue K-12 music teaching.
  • Music Production: Music Production emphasizes original composition, recording, sound synthesis and multi-media, including training in major music software programs such as Pro Tools, Logic, and Ableton Live in our state-of-the-art Music Lab.
  • Music Studies: Music Studies centers on the more analytical and interpretive disciplines, writing about music, and the preparation for graduate school.

Want real world music experience? Ramapo music majors have had internships with: Sony Music – RCA Records, Sirius FM, Quad Studios Lakeside, Relix Magazine, Roulette, and Warner Music Group-Alternative Distribution Alliance and many more.

On campus, you have plenty of opportunities to fuel your passion including your pick of choral, jazz, chamber, and world music ensembles, a vibrant weekly open-mic night, and an active radio station. In addition to the incredible opportunities available in nearby New York City, there are international exchange programs allowing you to gain experience abroad. The choirs tour internationally as well, with recent trips to the Pacific Summer Music Festival, Russia, Costa Rica, Vienna, and the Czech Republic.

Music and Creative Music Technology (4+1 BA/MFA)

About Music and Creative Music Technology (4+1 BA/MFA)

The BA in Music and Master of Fine Arts (MFA) 4+1 program and degree in Music and Creative Music Technology is designed for students who wish to study and pursue careers in the recording arts, electronic and computer music, and emerging intermedia art forms. By enrolling in the BA in Music and Master of Fine Arts (MFA) 4+1 program you can start taking graduate courses in your Senior year, which offers a substantial financial savings compared to full graduate tuition.

Graduates of the 4+1 program typically plan to work professionally as producers, recording engineers, audio technologists, educators, or contemporary artists who combine these roles. Upon completion of the bachelors degree, students pursue the MFA in 1 year. A unique thesis project related to each student’s specialization in music technology is part of the MFA program and adds an exciting element to the academic journey and career preparation.

View MFA in Creative Music Technology Website

Classes you can take:

Music Production Technology, Musicianship, Recording Arts, Sound Design for Digital Media, Electronic & Computer Music, History of Hip-Hop & Rap Music, Song Writing, Business of Music, Music Improvisation, DJ Culture

Music: Music Industry

About Music: Music Industry

Do you want to be part of bringing music you love to fans by helping a new artist produce their album or singles? Would you love to organize and promote a rock band’s next national concert tour? Ever wonder what is involved in the guidance, promotion, and marketing of a music artist in the current music industry environment?

The Music major with a concentration in Music Industry focuses on the rapidly changing dynamics of the music business and the relationship of music, business, and technology in the digital media landscape – a landscape that has drastically changed over the past decade and is continuing to evolve as new technologies emerge.

Classes you can take:

Business of Music, Music Online, Fundamental of Interactive Media, Basic Music Recording, Managing Organizational Behavior, Entertainment Arts and Media Management, International Marketing, History of Jazz, Topics in Asian Music, Soundtracks, DJ Culture, Music and Identity

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Hands-On Learning

The Music major begins with foundational studies in three areas: musicianship, music history and culture, and musical technologies and media. With a Music Industry concentration, you’ll enhance your major requirements with courses and experiential activities in business, communications, music management, publishing and copyright, live concert production and promotion, marketing, branding and entrepreneurship.

Due to our close proximity to New York City, there are many opportunities for internships with companies including Z100, MTV, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, AMC Records, MAYO Performing Arts Center, SiriusXM Radio and City Winery NYC (a live music venue).

Music: Music Performance

About Music: Music Performance

Is it your dream to be a professional singer or instrumentalist? Would you like to perform on stage or become a recording artist? Or would you love to teach music?

The Music major with a concentration in Music Performance fosters individual expression and the development of performance skills. Performance students have the opportunity to perform in a wide range of music ensembles and as solo artists. This concentration also provides a foundation for students who wish to pursue K-12 music teaching.

Classes you can take:

Applied Music Lessons, Basic Music Recording; Business of Music; Gospel Chorus; Intermediate Performince Ensemble (CantaNOVA, Chamber Ensemble, Jazz Band, Skylark, Take12 men’s a cappella), Music for Children, Music Performance, Musical Improvisation; Musical Theater Workshop, Ramapo Chorale, Technique for Singers, Keyboard or Guitar; Song Writing.

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Hands-On Learning

If you’re a vocalist, you’ll be encouraged to participate in one of Ramapo’s five vocal ensembles and have the chance to tour internationally. You can also get involved with the Musical Theater Workshop, which presents a staged showcase each year, perform in weekly on-campus open mic nights, in recitals and many other opportunities.

If you’re an instrumentalist, you’ll have opportunities to experience music making in contemporary, popular, classical, jazz, rock, and computer-interactive ensembles. Individual lessons with performer-teachers are available on campus for voice, guitar, bass, piano and strings. If you feel like taking off-campus instruction, that is also supported.

Ramapo Music Performance students have performed in professional music theater, opera, clubs, on recordings andhave participated in co-ops with MTV2, Sony Music Entertainment, Architekt Music, BMG Chrysalis, and East Side Sound.

Music: Music Production

About Music: Music Production

Dreaming of letting loose with your own electronic music for a live performance? Want to dive deep into the tools needed for audio production for media, video or professional recording?

The Music major with a concentration in Music Production develops skills in original composition, production and recording techniques, scoring for visual media, and electronic performance.

Classes you can take:

Music Production Technology, Musicianship, Recording Arts, Sound Design for Digital Media, Electronic & Computer Music, History of Hip-Hop & Rap Music, Song Writing, Business of Music, Music Improvisation, DJ Culture

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Hands-On Learning

Your music production studies will emphasize original composition, audio engineering, sound synthesis and live sound, including training in industry standard software platforms such as Pro Tools, Logic, and Ableton Live in our state-of-the-art production facilities.

From analog synthesis to digital signal processing to new interfaces for live performance, you will learn how to integrate hardware and software to achieve unique, creative sound design and musical work.

For real-world experience to complement your classroom education, you can take part in our internship programs at studios and performance spaces such as Bad Boy Records, Quad Studios Lakeside, Sony Music, MLB Network and Roulette.

Music: Music Studies

About Music: Music Studies

Wish you could learn more about the musical life of people, music in society, music journalism, and music-related research?

The Music major with a concentration in Music Studies is a broad-based liberal arts music program and is the more interpretive disciplines of music, the craft of writing about music, and preparation for graduate studies.

Classes you can take:

Basic Music Recording, Song Writing, Business of Music, Technique for Singers, Technique for Guitar, Music Performance, Musical Improvisation, Gospel Chorus, and Musical Theater Workshop

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Hands-On Learning

The Music major begins with foundational studies in three areas:

  • Musicianship
  • Music History and Culture
  • Musical Technologies and Media

Ramapo music majors have had co-ops through Missing Piece Group, Pangaia Partners, Relix Magazine, Sony Music – RCA Records, The Aquarian and Warner Music-Group-Alternative Distribution Alliance.

Neuroscience

About Neuroscience

Students will gain an understanding of the organization of the nervous system as well as an appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of neuroscience and the study of mind, brain, and behavior. Courses offered will allow students to explore the interaction between neural structure and function via the brain’s relation to behaviors such as motor control, basic  sensory processes (e.g., audition, proprioception, and vision), higher cognition (e.g., attention, memory, learning and language) and emotional processing. Major theories of brain-behavior relations will be studied. Several of these topics include behavioral neuroscience and learning, perception, and cognitive neuroscience.

Classes you can Take:

Introduction to Psychology, Psychology of Perception, Neuropsychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience

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Nursing

About Nursing

Do you enjoy helping others, and find drive and passion in serving others? Graduates of our BSN programs accomplish professional practice through their roles as nurse leaders, consultants, educators, researchers, and practitioners. Become certified in a specialty and attaining the MSN degree is also very common for our graduates.

Nursing students at Ramapo College enjoy state of the art facilities including Nursing skills labs and simulation labs. These facilities allow our students to practice on artificial patients and analyze their performance with their professor in our new Adler Center for Nursing Excellence, which opened in the fall of 2015.

Classes you can take:

The sciences and liberal arts form the basic foundation for the nursing courses. In the generic program, all science and general education courses are completed before entering the nursing sequence. For the RN/BSN student, the basic courses are transferred in and the student completes those upper level nursing and general education courses.

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Nursing majors are constantly engaging in hands on learning, first in our simulation and skills labs on campus, then during their clinical rotations as upperclassmen.

Our students complete their rotations at The Valley Hospital, Hackensack University Medical Center and St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center. All of these facilities are designated as Magnet Hospitals by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Such a designation certifies a hospital as a Center of Excellence in Nursing, which allows our students to experience nursing in the best nursing departments in the country. Students also participate in community based activities in locations such as The Ramapough Turtle Clan and The Township of Garfield.

Nursing (Accelerated Program)

About Accelerated Nursing 

Become a registered nurse in 16-months with an Accelerated Nursing degree from Ramapo College. The Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program opens doors to new opportunities for people with non-nursing degrees or who have a minimum of 60 credits from an accredited institution.

Ramapo College of New Jersey is an excellent choice for students serious about a career in nursing. Our prestigious clinical partnerships and highly acclaimed, state-of-the-art Adler Center for Nursing Excellence, provide an outstanding advantage for Ramapo’s nursing students.

Classes you can take:

Students of the accelerated nursing program are prepared as registered nurses to assume critical roles in collaboration with medical professionals within complex healthcare systems. Upon successful completion, graduates are eligible to take the license examination (NCLEX) to become registered nurses.

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Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)Hands-On Learning

Nursing majors are constantly engaging in hands on learning, first in our simulation and skills labs on campus, then during their clinical rotations as upperclassmen.

Our students complete their rotations at The Valley Hospital, Hackensack University Medical Center and St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center. All of these facilities are designated as Magnet Hospitals by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Such a designation certifies a hospital as a Center of Excellence in Nursing, which allows our students to experience nursing in the best nursing departments in the country. Students also participate in community based activities in locations such as The Ramapough Turtle Clan and The Township of Garfield.

Nursing (MSN) (Education Track)

About M.S. in Nursing (MSN) (Education Track)

By 2020, there will be an estimated shortage of 800,000 nurses in the U.S. The concurrent shortage of nursing faculty will also have a significant impact on the provision of well-educated nurses in the field. Due to this, there is a need for well-prepared nurse educators in higher education and health agencies now and in the future.

The Master of Science in Nursing prepares graduates to serve as educators at both health care institutions and in institutions of higher education as faculty on tenure-track, non tenure, and clinical lines. Ramapo College students participate in hands-on learning with fully functioning patient stations on campus. The Adler Center for Nursing Excellence, set to open fall 2015, will provide new state of the art nursing simulation opportunities. Our uses of technology in education will greatly assist you as you make innovations in nursing education.

Classes you can take:

Science and Research, Psychometrics: Test and Scale Construction, Role Practicum, Advanced Health Assessment, Advanced Pathophysiology, Advanced Pharmacology, Curriculum Development, Program Evaluation, Clinical Teaching in Nursing, Development of Grants and External Support

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The Program is accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN). A post-master’s program is also offered, designed for those nurses holding a master’s degree in nursing who are interested in pursuing nursing education.

Hands-On Learning

Ramapo College of New Jersey offers courses leading to a Master of Science in Nursing with a nursing education track. The 33/34 credit degree focuses on the preparation of nurses to work as nursing faculty in higher education or as nurse educators in health agencies.

The Transition/Bridge Program to MSN Program is for nurses with non-nursing baccalaureate degrees. They will be required to complete undergraduate Nursing Research and Evidence Based Practice, and an Independent Study in Leadership (an undergraduate Statistics course is a prerequisite as well). Upon satisfactory completion of these 6 credits, students are eligible to progress and are officially accepted into the Master of Science in Nursing program.

Nursing (MSN) (Family Nurse Practitioner)

About M.S. in Nursing (MSN) (Family Nurse Practitioner)

The Ramapo College MSN – Family Nurse Practitioner program is a 47 credit degree, part-time program, with 720 total role practicum hours required. Graduates are prepared to serve in Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner positions in hospital and independent care settings; and upon program completion, may sit for state licensure and FNP certification of the AANP.

In 2015, according to national doctor recruiting firm Merritt Hawkins, Family Nurse practitioners ranked fifth behind hospitalists who were fourth and physician assistants were in 10th place, tied on the “in demand” scale with general surgeons. Advanced nurse practitioners are more in demand than several specialties including general surgery, cardiology, urology and neurology.

Also in 2015, The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the federal agency focused on improving access to care and strengthening the health care workforce, stated that it is projecting a shortage of 20,400 primary care physicians in 2020, and other experts, too, have projected a large shortfall in the coming years.

The Ramapo College MSN – Family Nurse Practitioner is being offered to meet the demand for family and primary care physicians in the region. The program is offered in a flexible format and allows practicing Nurses to achieve their career goals and take on new roles in the changing way family and primary care is provided now and in the future.

Classes you can take:

Family Nurse Practitioner:

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Hands-On Learning

Many nurses in the region are attracted to our program because of the individual attention provided to each student, affordability, and accessibility. Completion of any of the 3 tracks offer Nurses the ability to attain certification in their respective disciplines and expertise and become Nursing leaders and mentors in their respective medical environments.

Nursing (MSN) (Nurse Administration)

About M.S. in Nursing (MSN) (Nurse Administration)

The MSN – Nursing Administration track, a 34 credit degree which includes 135 hr Role Practicum, prepares students for leadership and managerial positions in healthcare; and may sit for the Advanced Nurse Administrator (NEA-BC) certification of the ANCC upon completion of the program.

The Ramapo College MSN – Nursing Administration program addresses the needs of nurse staffing teams and hospital administrators through its curriculum and experiences; and offers nurses the knowledge and expertise necessary to achieve the goals of addressing the management of nursing teams, staff, and other duties as outlined by the AACN and hospital leadership in the region.

Classes you can take:

Nursing Administration Track:

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Hands-On Learning

Many nurses in the region are attracted to our program because of the individual attention provided to each student, affordability, and accessibility. Completion of any of the 3 tracks offer Nurses the ability to attain certification in their respective disciplines and expertise and become Nursing leaders and mentors in their respective medical environments.

Nursing Practice (DNP)

About Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

Ramapo College of New Jersey offers a mainly online, post-master’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) designed for nurses seeking a terminal degree in nursing practice.

Ramapo’s 36-credit practice-based program offers an alternative to research-focused doctoral programs, placing greater emphasis on practice and less emphasis on theory, research methodology and statistics. DNP-prepared nurses are well equipped to fully implement the science developed by nurse researchers prepared in PhD, DNSc and other research-focused nursing doctorates.

View Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Website

Optometry

About Optometry

Optometry is the healthcare profession concerned with the examination of the eyes and related structures to determine the presence and treatment of vision problems and eye disorders. Today, the field has evolved to include significant training in the diagnosis and management of ocular disease.

Doctors of Optometry prescribe medications, low vision rehabilitation, vision therapy, spectacle lenses, contact lenses, and perform certain surgical procedures. Optometrists, like many other healthcare professionals, are required to participate in ongoing continuing education courses to stay current on the latest standards of care. As a regulated profession (licensed/registered), the scope of practice may differ by location. Additional information about optometry may be found at World Council of Optometry and American Academy of Optometry.

This joint 3+4 program between Ramapo College of New Jersey and SUNY State College of Optometry leads to the completion of the baccalaureate degree and the doctor of optometry degree (O.D.) in an accelerated 7 years of study. Students are admitted into the Biology major at Ramapo College and are simultaneously admitted to candidacy in the SUNY College of Optometry professional program of study.

During the first three years at Ramapo, students take coursework that leads to the Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree and complete all prerequisite coursework for entrance into SUNY College of Optometry. The fourth year of coursework toward the B.S. from Ramapo College is completed at SUNY College of Optometry.

Credits earned during the first year of professional study at SUNY College of Optometry are transferred to Ramapo, and upon successful completion of the first year of optometry school, students are awarded their B.S. degree in Biology from Ramapo College.

Pre-requisite Science and Math Courses for the joint program with SUNY Optometry:

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For more information on the joint program check https://www.sunyopt.edu/education/admissions/od_program/joint_degree

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Upon the completion of the fourth year, you will receive your B.S. degree in Biology from Ramapo College. After three more years, you then receive the O.D. degree from SUNY College of Optometry. Armed with your O.D. degree, you can work in a variety of medical settings such as in hospitals or in a private practice.

Hands-On Learning

As a Biology major first, you’ll find well-equipped modern laboratories at Ramapo, which includes computer rooms, computerized biology and physiology labs, and a student research lab, so you can explore the many aspects of biology through your courses and as a participant in faculty research.

Want to hang out with other pre-med and pre-health students? Come join our Pre-Med Club or our medical honors fraternity, Phi Delta Epsilon.

Philosophy

About Philosophy

Thinking about a major?  Philosophy is a major in thinking.

Philosophers rethink everyday assumptions about what is real, what we can know, and whom we should strive to be.  In English, we say philosophy, derived from the Greek philos and Sophia, is the study of the love of wisdom. In Sanskrit, we say vidyā, the root of which is to reason upon, including knowledge of the knower and the known. In Buddhism, philosophy refers to the core values found in the universal truths or paths. Indigenous philosophical traditions on nearly every continent are rooted in values, such as harmony within community, and with the laws of nature. When applied to economics, law, science, education, and other practical areas, an awareness of how these traditions differ and what they share in common offers insights to attaining a peaceful and sustainable future.

At Ramapo, our Philosophy students learn how to formulate logical and effective argument — the key to philosophical discourse.  Students consider the over-arching questions of philosophical traditions such as: Does God exist?  What is the connection between my mind and body?  How do we know we exist?  What do we know for sure? How should we treat ourselves or other people?  Are we free or determined?  And, students have a wide choice of courses in applied philosophy, to consider the questions of our times such as: Is globalization good for humankind?  Is euthanasia morally permissible?  Is war ever justified?  Should art ever be censored?  What is the ethical obligation to sustainable living?

Classes you can Take:

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SALARY DATA

Mean LSAT scores by major. The LSAT is the entrance exam for law school.

Mean GRE Composite (combined verbal reasoning + quantitative reasoning + analytical writing scores, by percentile) scores by major. The GRE is the standardized test used to assess applicants to graduate school in most disciplines.

 

Mean GMAT scores by major.The GMAT is the standardized test used to assess applicants to graduate school in management and business (typically for MBAs).

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  • Philosophy majors the highest mean scores on the LSAT (law school admissions test) — better than political science, pre-law and business majors.
  • Philosophy majors have the highest mean scores on the GRE.
  • Philosophy majors have better mean scores on the GMAT (business school admissions test) than economics, statistics, finance, and accounting majors. You will develop critical thinking skills that employers want in their employees.
  • You will develop skills in communication, analysis, argumentation, and reflection that will better prepare you for any position of responsibility.
  • You will develop skills of decision-making and problem-solving useful across the globe based on your understanding of core values across cultures, social systems, legal systems, and economic systems.
  • Your job preparation for work in business, law, science, the helping professions, as well as public service, will be informed by your own considered wisdom.

Photography

About Photography

Do you look at the world around you and want to capture what you see? Would you love to zoom in on the skills and techniques need to be a professional photographer?

The Visual Arts major with a concentration in Photography offers an in-depth education in analog and digital photographic technologies in Ramapo’s state of the art facilities. Students are trained to master technical skills required for the commercial, documentary, and fine arts photography world and to develop a vision as a visual artist.

Classes you could take:

Black and White Photography, Digital Photography, Intermediate Digital Photo, Intermediate Film Photography, Studio Photography, Documentary Photography, Portrait Photography, Installation Art, The Artist’s Book, History of Photography, Professional Format Photography

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Degree Opportunities

From the front lines of a breaking news story, to the capturing of special milestones, your photography degree from Ramapo will offer you a variety of career tracks. Professional photographers can work in media, publishing, fashion, advertising, law enforcement, TV, education, special events, family and social events, corporations, and many more fields through on-staff, freelance, and self-employment options in areas such as commercial, fine arts, portrait, photo journalism and science.

Examples of titles and employers of Ramapo graduates include Studio Manager, Photographer at Net-a-Porter, Assistant at Mark Seliger’s Studio, and freelance photographer for Martha Stewart Omnivision, NY.

Hands-On Learning

As a photography student, you’ll have access to a variety of facilities including a fully equipped, state-of-the-art black and white darkroom, digital print lab, and a photography studio. An intensive inventory of professional camera and lighting equipment is available for student on and off campus location shoots.

Photo Lab

Want to know what it could be like in the real world as a photographer? Ramapo majors have gained fieldwork experiences through internships with local organizations such as the American Cancer Society, Damon G Douglas Co., Inc, Dawn Joseph Photography, Downtown Magazine, Nightstand Studios and the Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Martha Stewart Omnivision, NY. Faculty conducts several visits to NYC museum and gallery photography exhibits each term.

Physical Therapy

About Physical Therapy

Would you love to help a patient get back on their feet after surgery or establish a movement plan for a wounded veteran?

Students interested in becoming Physical Therapists may apply to Ramapo’s articulated Biology-Physical Therapy (Doctorate) program with Rutgers – School of Health Related Professions. To be considered for this special 3+ 3 program, students must apply to Rutgers early on in their junior year at Ramapo College. Acceptance to the program is contingent on maintaining the required GPA and successfully completing all required coursework before the end of the junior year. Students accepted into the joint 3+3 program complete their first three years at Ramapo as a Biology major before continuing on to the Rutgers for their last three years. Students earn their B.S. in Biology from Ramapo College upon the completion of their first year at Rutgers SHRP (fourth year total)

Classes you can take:

Genetics, Microbiology, Statistics, Social Issues, Precalculus, Fundamentals of Chemistry, Anatomy & Physiology

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With your Biology major, you will be prepared for graduate studies, professional schools of medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine and other health-related professions. If you are following in the Physical Therapy joint program, you will continue your graduate studies at Rutgers. Or you may choose to apply to other DPT programs around the country.

With your doctorate in Physical Therapy (DPT), you’ll have a wide range of options to work, such as in rehab sites, gyms, doctor offices or sports programs for schools and athletic teams. You can also consider having your own practice and opening a clinic or having a more mobile lifestyle and working in patients’ homes.

Hands-On Learning

As a Biology major (pre-physical therapy option) first, you’ll find well-equipped modern laboratories at Ramapo, which include a computer controlled greenhouse, computer rooms, computerized biology and physiology labs, and a student research lab. This enables you to explore the many aspects of biology through your courses and as a participant in faculty research.

Want to hang out with other pre-med and pre-health students? Come join our Pre-Med Club or our medical honors fraternity, Phi Delta Epsilon.

Plant Studies

About Plant Studies

Agriculture is one of the largest industries in New Jersey. Leading NJ agriculture sectors include nursery and greenhouse plants ($444.8 million), fruits and vegetables ($462.9 million), and field crops ($31.6 million). This minor in Plant Studies prepares students for further study or careers in the areas of food production, ornamental plant care, landscape design, sustainable agriculture (farm, nursery, garden, park, golf course, etc.) management, and plant science education.

The Minor in Plant Studies consists of two required courses and three electives. Both required courses (BIOL 111 and CHEM 111 with labs) attribute to the Gen Ed “Science with Experiential” category. Most of the courses in the elective list ensure hands-on learning experience by utilizing the laboratory, greenhouse, and field resources available on/near campus. Faculty-student research or internship experience on plants is encouraged. The students will be able to identify major flowering plants important to environmental conservation or used as ornaments and foods. They will gain substantial knowledge on the principles and practices of plant care, as well as emerging technologies in plant cultivation such as hydroponics, and develop critical thinking skills to interpret data and solve practical problems in plant-related studies.

Classes you can take:

See Full Program Requirements

Hands-On Learning

Independent Studies, Vertical Farming (REED, MEVO, NJBG, etc.)

Podiatric Medicine

About Podiatric Medicine

Do you have a curious love of feet? A podiatrist treats, analyzes, and diagnoses diseases of the foot. But long before you begin a small practice in your dream town, you have a 7-year track head of you. Our Podiatric Medicine articulated degree program prepares students for a career in the field by combining three years as Biology majors with a concentration in Podiatric Medicine here at Ramapo College. Then you spend your next four years at New York College of Podiatric Medicine (NYCPM). Upon the completion of the fourth year, students receive their B.S. degree in Biology from Ramapo College. After three more years students receive their D.P.M degree from NYCPM.

Classes you can take:

Bio-organic Chemistry, Fundamentals of Biology, Fundamentals of Chemistry, Statistics, Social Issues, Precalculus, Ecology, Anatomy & Physiology

Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)

Ramapo graduates have been accepted to New York College of Podiatric Medicine through our articulated degree program, as well as to the School of Podiatric Medicine at Temple University. As a D.P.M, you can work in hospitals, join or have your own practice, and even specialize in areas such as sports medicine, surgery, primary care and orthopedics.

Hands-On Learning

As a Biology major first, you’ll find well-equipped modern laboratories at Ramapo, which includes computer rooms, computerized biology and physiology labs, and a student research lab, so you can explore the many aspects of biology through your courses and as a participant in faculty research.

Want to hang out with other pre-med and pre-health students? Come join our Pre-Med Club or our medical honors fraternity, Phi Delta Epsilon.

Political Science

About Political Science

Do you ever ask yourself, “who gets what, when, and how?”

Political Science is the study of power and authority and the forms they take in life. It deals with a whole range of human behavior, relationships, and values that affect the daily lives of everyone.

Politics is the process by which individuals make collective decisions, set goals and priorities, and formulate policies to pursue them.

Classes you can take:

Political Theory, American Government, US Supreme Court, Voting and Public Opinion, Political Science Methodology, Election Campaigns, Civil Rights, Human Rights in Latin America; International Politics, Islam, Politics & International Relations, US – China Relations

See Full Program Requirements

Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)
  • Attorneys
  • Administration in Corporate, Government, and Nonprofit Sectors
  • City Planning • Communications Directors
  • Policy Analysis
  • Labor Relations
  • Journalism in Traditional and New Media
  • Intelligence officers
  • Legislative Liaisons and Lobbying
  • Polling and Public Opinion Research
  • Campaign management
  • Publishing
  • Public Affairs Advisor for Corporate and Non profit organizations
  • Interest groups
  • State and Local Governments
  • High School Social Studies Teacher
  • University Researcher or Professor

    • Hands-On Learning

    The Political Science faculty encourages both traditional and innovative approaches to the major emphasizing American legislative, executive, and judicial decision making, international and comparative politics, and the theoretical and practical connections between politics and social issues and institutions. We encourage students to apply knowledge they acquire in the classroom to the real world.

    Follow in the footsteps of other political science majors and find internships at organizations such as: American Association of People with Disabilities, offices of U.S. Senators, House of Representatives, and NJ Governor and State legislators, Department of Health, NJ State Police, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Embassies and Diplomatic Missions, the United Nations Development Programme, International Rescue Commission, Health Care Institute of NJ, and law firms in the Greater New York region.

    The Political Science works closely with the Washington Internship Institute (WII) to search and place students in appropriate internship opportunities in Washington D.C., where they will spend a semester working and taking courses that count toward their graduation. The major is also designed to accommodate a semester for students wishing to study abroad to enrich their world view and widen their career path. For more info on study abroad, contact Ramapo’s Roukema Center.

    The Ramapo chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society, provides special recognition and programming for outstanding Political Science students. Other ways to get involved are through various on-campus clubs such as the Model UN (contact Professor Dean Chen who is currently the Model UN Advisor). If you are interested in law school admission, contact our pre-law advisors–Professors Jeremy Teigen and Michael Unger.

    Post-Baccalaureate Program in Teacher Education

    About Post-Baccalaureate Program in Teacher Education

    Please see Teacher Education Program.

    Post-Baccalaureate Program in the Health Sciences

    About Post-Baccalaureate Program in the Health Sciences

    Please see Articulation Agreements (Pre-Med / Pre-Health Programs).

    Pre-Med / Pre-Health Programs

    Ramapo College is a great place to study biology, pre-med and all paths leading to masters, doctoral, and medical graduate school programs in a variety of fields. Our graduates apply and are accepted to schools like Yale, Columbia, UPenn, Rutgers, LECOM, and others and succeed.

    Our 1 on 1 advisement provided through our pre-med club and advisor, and science faculty community support you on this journey as you embark on this goal. Below – you can explore the various options to enroll at Ramapo in the pre-med areas and find your place!

    Find Out More About Pre-Med / Pre-Health Programs:

    Articulation Agreements

    Psychology

    Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Psychology examines a broad variety of questions, such as how our capacities and personalities develop, how the brain works, how we relate to one another, how we organize and process information, how we experience emotions. The field of psychology is diverse and interdisciplinary, and therefore there are many subfields in psychology.

    Psychology also has applications in many areas, including schools, the workplace, health, business, law and much more. Research and practice in psychology involves understanding and solving problems in the real world through the analyses of behavior in school and work settings, assessment and treatment of psychological and behavioral disorders, and the enhancement of mental, physical, and social well-being.

    Our Psychology Program provides students with the workplace skills sought by employers in the 21st century, across many fields; a strong academic foundation that prepares them for advanced study in a wide range of fields; and the knowledge, skills, and abilities that will enhance their personal lives and well-being. Our program is distinctive in that all students complete an applied experience through fieldwork internships and/or independent research.
    Visit the program website for more information about our program and the many opportunities for students: https://www.ramapo.edu/sshs/psychology/

    Classes you can take:

    At Ramapo, the Psychology Program is organized into eight areas (referred to as categories), all of which investigate critical aspects of the brain and human behavior. The categories allow students to examine and develop knowledge and skills in the primary subfields of the discipline: social, developmental, cognitive/neuroscience, and personality/abnormal and socio-cultural psychology. All students complete one course in each of the eight categories, which offer students flexibility and choice so they can explore personal interests. Students also complete Introduction to Psychology and three core courses (Statistics, Research Methods, Data Analysis) aimed at developing critical thinking, research, quantitative, and communication skills. In Category 7, students engage in an applied experience via fieldwork internships or independent research.

    The Psychology curriculum includes courses on many interesting areas, including Social Psychology, Workplace Psychology, Learning, Cognition, Perception, Developmental Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Theories of Personality, Cross-Cultural Psychology, the Psychology of Gender, Neuropsychology, Statistics, Forensic Psychology, and many more. See Requirements of the Major for a complete list of courses. A minor is available.

    See Full Program Requirements

    Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)Hands-On Learning

    A hallmark of the Ramapo psychology program is its fieldwork component where you’ll gain hands-on, applied experience that connects the classroom with the real world, In fieldwork courses, you can work in a mental health or educational agency in the community such as a school for special needs children.

    Ramapo psychology students have had co-op placements at organizations such as the Housing Authority of Bergen County, Hackensack University Medical Center, First Children’s Learning Services, New Jersey State Police, the Red Cross and International Justice Project.

    You’ll also get to work in psych labs on campus and have opportunities to do research with faculty members. Recent years’ research includes studying child development, neuroscience and phenomenology.

    About Minor

    Students may add a minor in Psychology to supplement their major and create a unique educational profile. Students in Social Work, Nursing, Elementary Education, Sociology, and Biology frequently add a minor in Psychology. To complete a minor in Psychology, students take Introduction to Psychology, 1 class from any three Psychology course categories, and 1 additional Psychology course for a total of 5 Psychology courses. See Requirements of the Major for the complete list of courses.

    Public Health

    About Public Health

    Public health is one of the quickly evolving subject areas in the world, focusing on the health at the population level by dealing with hygiene, epidemiology and disease prevention. Though small by size, New Jersey is among the states with the highest population density in the country. It’s more than 8.9 million residents experience a large disparity in health status due to various social, economic and biological factors. Among the many health problems that need to be addressed are low birthweight, preventable hospitalization, obesity and drug use. Therefore, the job prospects in public health are quite favorable in the local community and neighboring states.Minor in Public Health consists of five courses (20 credits). All courses in the minor discuss relevant health topics under the interdisciplinary, intercultural and international scopes. Students gain knowledge on the history, core values and concepts of public health. They learn to use the tools of public health data collection and study evidence-based approaches to identify and address the major health needs and concerns of disparate populations.

    Required courses:

    1. BIOL 204 - EPIDEMIOLOGY
    2. Statistics or Research Methods Category (Select One):
    3. Health Policy and Management Category (Select One):
    4. Social and Behavioral Sciences Category (Select One):
    5. Social and Behavioral Sciences Category (Select One):

     

    Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)

  • Healthcare Manager
  • Public Health Analyst
  • Public Information Specialist

    • Public Policy

    About Public Policy

    Ramapo College offers a flexible, interdisciplinary sequence of courses, listed below, leading to a minor in Public Policy. The Public Policy minor has been designed to complement such majors as Political Science, Environmental Studies, Law and Society, and International Studies. The minor moves the student beyond theory and into understanding the implications of political decision-making, laws, and governance.

    The added focus on Public Policy turns the student’s attention to problems and solutions in the world of public events. The Public Policy minor enhances effective citizenship and analytical rigor, giving the student a concrete focus on application of principles and methods generated by the major. Students will be introduced to both qualitative and quantitative methodologies and may elect to concentrate on analytic strategies appropriate for their interests and professional goals.

    Classes you can take:

    Public Policy, Introduction to Political Science, American Government, Political Science Methodology, International Politics, The United States Supreme Court, Contemporary International Human Rights, Conflict Resolution

    See Full Program Requirements

    Public Sociology

    About Public Sociology

    Sociology is unique among the social sciences because it examines the whole of human societies. It focuses on institutional and sociocultural changes rather than on simply economic, political, or technical transformations.  For example, sociology provides an understanding of “modernization” and “globalization” by analyzing their impact on culture human subjectivity, power relations, and collective resistance. Sociology prepares students to scientifically study and personally engage with human groups and communities. It links individual biographies with public issues.

    The Sociology major offers two tracks to Ramapo College students interested in studying questions of human diversity, inequality, and social justice in U.S. as well as international societies: Public Sociology and Criminology.

    The Public Sociology track offers students opportunities to engage public issues like poverty, race relations, popular culture, gender, and globalization in their studies. This track emphasizes applied research experience which will prove invaluable in the job market and as an excellent preparation for graduate school.

    Classes you can take:

    Introduction to Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Social Research with Computers, Food and Population, Social Theory

    See Full Program Requirements

    Hands-On Learning

    Recognizing the international character of contemporary life, the Sociology program at Ramapo College emphasizes internships in local New Jersey and New York communities, as well as in study abroad programs.  By engaging in field study internships, sociology majors develop a broad and refined world perspective, and become highly prepared for graduate school and the workforce.

    Sculpture

    About Sculpture

    Do you see the world only in 3D? When you create art, is it meant to be experienced from all angles? Are you always on the hunt to find new and innovative materials for creative expression?

    The Visual Arts major with a concentration in Sculpture is designed to develop higher-level thinking, art-related technology skill, art criticism, art history, and aesthetics especially in regards to studio production. These classes include working with metal, wood, and experimental sculpture, as well as ceramics.

    Courses You Could Take:

    Intermediate Sculpture, Bronze Casting / Welding, Figure Drawing & Sculpture, Installation Art, The Artist’s Book, Art as Therapy, Intro To Psychology

    See Full Program Requirements

    Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)

    You will graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Communications with a concentration in Sculpture. Ramapo’s graduates have gone on to receive their Master’s in Fine Arts, become high school teachers, college professors, professional artists, design firm owners and gallery owners. Sculpture alumni who pursued double majors even include a medical doctor and a mechanical engineer.

    You can also consider learning more about our joint degree program on Art Therapy with Caldwell University, which would lead to a earning a Masters of Counseling with a Mental Health Counseling/Art Therapy Specialization in Sculpture. Talk to an admissions counselor to learn more: admissions@ramapo.edu

    Hands-On Learning

    As a sculpture student, you will work in our state-of-the-art sculpture studios that include sand and ceramic shell mold-making facilities and a foundry for casting bronze. The three separate buildings also contain a full metal studio, a clay and plaster studio, and a mold making and wax facility. A sculpture garden next to the facilities is in the works.

    The Sculpture concentration aims to develop your critical thinking and art-related technology skills within an interdisciplinary curriculum. If you’re interested in pursuing a counseling career in Art Therapy, you can take specialized advanced courses.

    Social Justice

    About the Law and Society Major with Social Justice Concentration

    Want to change the world? Passionate about justice, the law and human rights? The Law and Society major with Social Justice concentration provides students with the opportunity to focus on various areas including constitutional and human rights law, as well as the issues and implications for social justice relating to disability, healthcare, the environment, elderly care, psychology, sex and gender.

    A number of Law and Society Ramapo graduates enter law school each year including Boston College Law School, Georgetown Law, New York Law School, Pace Law School, Rutgers School of Law, John Jay College, Seton Hall, and Syracuse University. Ramapo also offers a joint B.A./J.D Degree with Seton Hall Law School; this guaranteed admissions program is designed so that high achieving high school students who meet outlined criteria can be accepted to Ramapo and be guaranteed admission to Seton Hall Law School four years later.

    What You’ll Learn

    Students will explore the intersection of human rights, the law, the role and impact of international institutions and structures on various international human rights problems and issues such as genocide, human trafficking, torture and other denials of fundamental human rights.

    Courses will allow for the examination of environmental issues through a social justice lens, disability within their broadest possible legal and social context, addressing issues related to equity, rights, and social change. Furthermore, courses will examine the systemic inequalities based on race, gender, class, sexuality, age, and other identities, emphasizing the importance of advocacy and activism.

    Classes You Can Take

    Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)Hands-On Learning

    As a Law and Society Major, you’ll dive deeper into your studies through independent study, field work, and your Senior Thesis. Popular internships for our students have included the Mahwah Police Department, Bergen County Police Department, Bergen County Municipal Court, Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), county and city courts, law firms, and state senators. Recent internship highlights include the United Nations, White House, and the international law firm White & Case (Germany).

    The Ramapo Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) Center offers another opportunity for Law and Society majors to obtain hands-on experience in a new and exciting field in the only undergraduate training program in IGG in the country. The IGG Workshop (LAWS 365), where students learn how to conduct IGG and work on real cases from the IGG Center, provides 4-credits towards the Law and Society major. After completing the IGG Workshop, select students may continue to work on real cases of violent crime, unidentified human remains, and wrongful convictions at the IGG Center

    All students in law and society must write a substantial thesis as their capstone. The best theses are published in the Ramapo Journal of Law and Society (www.ramapo.edu/law-journal), one of the few undergraduate law and society journals in the country. The Journal is run by Ramapo students, most of whom are law and society majors.

    Our students also have an opportunity to organize and participate in our signature event series, the World of Law and SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) Discussion Series. The program is open to the entire college community, and has featured speakers from, among others, the Bronx Defenders, Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office, Children’s Rights, Center for Reproductive Rights, Legal Aid, American Friends Service Committee, Outten & Golden.

    Social Science

    About Social Science

    Interested in a number of subjects or fields? Would you like to pursue a number of your interests by designing your own major?

    Social Science is an interdisciplinary contract major offered through the School of Social Science and Human Services. This major provides students with flexibility to pursue interdisciplinary training in the social sciences and to design a program that fits their academic goals and needs. This format also allows students to explore specialized or emerging fields in areas in which traditional majors are not offered.

    Within this interdisciplinary Social Science contract major, students may elect a concentration (although it is not required). Concentrations aid students’ intellectual development by focusing their conceptual and methodological study. The concentrations highlight interdisciplinary themes students could pursue. The concentrations offered are:

    • Community Mental Health
    • Education Studies
    • Ethnicity & Race Studies
    • Gender & Sexuality Studies
    • Labor, Work, & Organizations

    Students that opt not to elect a concentration will identify their own individual themes of study.

    It is recommended that students consider combining their interdisciplinary social science major with an appropriate minor (e.g., Civic & Community Leadership; Crime & Justice Studies; Psychology; Substance Use Disorders; Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; Africana Studies; Anthropology; Latino/a & Latin American Studies).

    Classes you can Take:

    In addition to the Research Methods and Capstone requirements, in consultation with an advisor, students create an interdisciplinary major by selecting courses from any of the Social Science disciplines.  These disciplines include:  Africana Studies (AFST), Anthropology (ANTH), Education (EDUC), Environmental Studies (ENST), Geography (GEOG), Law & Society (LAWS), Political Science (POLI), Psychology (PSYC), Sociology (SOCI), Social Science (SOSC), Social Work (SWRK), Sustainability (SUST).

    See Full Program Requirements

    Social Science: Society and Culture

    About Social Science: Society and Culture

    Ramapo College’s Degree Completion Program (DCP) provides returning adult students ages 25 and older a fully mapped pathway to finishing their undergraduate degree on an accelerated schedule. The DCP offers two accelerated contract majors:

    • Social Science contract major with a Society and Culture concentration
    • Contemporary Arts contract major with a Professional Communications concentration

    These accelerated majors combine online and evening classroom study on a part-time or full-time, year-round schedule (fall, winter, spring and summer).

    Generally, Degree Completion Program (DCP) students have earned at least 64 credits either through an Associate’s Degree or through a combination of transfer credits from previous institutions. DCP majors provide the entirety of any courses required by the major, along with any school core requirements, as part of the mapped curriculum. Students must also be part of a Degree Completion Program cohort in order to enroll in either of the accelerated majors or in a DCP section of a course.

    The Degree Completion Program assumes that a student has successfully completed Ramapo’s general education requirements prior to enrollment. However, students who need to complete outstanding General Education requirements or elective credits can do so through advisement from the program director.Ramapo’s accelerated Social Science major combines courses in criminal justice, substance abuse, human rights and other topics of pressing social concern into a coherent whole. Upon completion of this degree, you will be prepared to re-enter the workforce or seek job advancement in fields as diverse as paralegal studies, law enforcement, human resources, and related fields in law, justice and public health.

    Class List:

    See Full Program Requirements

    Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)

    Social Work

    About Social Work

    Are you looking for a leadership role that helps solve social problems? Want to challenge injustice in society and serve at-risk populations?

    Social Work is committed to the development of a society which promotes equality, social justice, respect for human diversity, and adequate sustenance for all its members. The program develops skills for culturally competent social work practice, research, social service and social policy formation, and political advocacy in order to further this mission. This program is fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).

    Classes you can take:

    Social Work Research Methods, Child Welfare, Community Mental Health, Contemporary Social Policy, Social Welfare & Law, Aids: Social Perspectives

    See Full Program Requirements

    Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)Hands-On Learning

    As a social work student, you will complete 600 hours over a two year period of field internship supervised by credentialed and experienced professionals in community agencies and organizations. In these placements, you will practice the skills you learn in classes.

    Social work majors at Ramapo have completed cooperative education programs with organizations such as Broadway House for Continuing Care, Paterson Family Success Center, Housing Authority of Bergen County, Huntington’s Disease Society of America, Shelter Our Sisters, and the North Jersey Development Center. You can also co-major or minor in a second field such as psychology, sociology, economics, political science, and/or minor in the areas of gerontology, women’s studies, African-American Studies, ethic studies, and substance abuse.

    Social Work (MSW)

    About Master of Social Work (MSW)

    What kind of change could you help create in the world? Ramapo College prepares social work professionals to connect with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in helping relationships that move clients toward social, economic, and environmental justice. Preparing for a career in social work embodies the profession’s high values of service, dignity and worth of each person, the importance of human relationships, integrity, and competence in practice.*

    Building on social work values, knowledge, and skills, Ramapo College students examine the human condition and become competent practitioners who are ready to serve where impoverishment, oppression, discrimination, violence, and miscommunication impact human well-being. Foundation year courses introduce to student to the core of generalist practice. With a concentration in advanced generalist practice, Ramapo graduates will be skilled clinical practitioners, supervisors, and leaders, fully committed to respecting and prioritizing human need in complex and ever-changing practice environments.

    *Social work values are published by the National Association of Social Workers (2008)

    Classes you can take:

    See Full Program Requirements

    Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)Hands-On Learning

    To gain skills and competence, you will complete 64 credit hours of study with highly experienced professors who represent thousands of practice hours, interactive classroom leadership, and online teaching.

    Under the guidance of our Field Education Department, you will complete 1200 hours of internships over your course of study in local agencies. This will enable you to demonstrate your effectiveness to serve individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations by modeling practice behaviors that synthesize classroom learning within your unique internship setting.

    The MSW program is offered as both full-time (2 years) and part-time (3 years) options. When granted candidacy status, reciprocity between New Jersey and New York allows Ramapo MSW students to take the NJ exam for the LSW. This credential allows graduates to move into professional employment that can lead to the clinical exam.

    Sociology

    About Sociology

    Do people and how they interact with each other and institutions in our society intrigue you? Does studying the increasing diversity of the US population and race relations interest you? Or would you rather learn more about how different theories of criminal behavior have influenced rehabilitation policies?

    Sociology focuses on institutional and sociocultural changes rather than on simply economic, political, or technical transformations. The major prepares students to scientifically study and personally engage with human groups and communities.Classes you could take: Globalization and Society, Public Sociologies, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Aging, Environmental Sociology, Crime & Media, Criminology, Soci-Race Relations, Sociology of Deviance

    See Full Program Requirements

    Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)Hands-On Learning

    The sociology major offers two tracks for Ramapo students interested in studying questions of human diversity, inequality, and social justice in the U.S. as well as international societies:

    • Public Sociology: engage on public issues like poverty, race relations, popular culture, gender, and globalization. Emphasis is placed on applied research experience.
    •  Criminology: offers opportunities to learn about law enforcement fields by exploring issues of class, race, gender, and religious differences, locally and globally. Training includes analyzing diverse situations that could present themselves in future professions in law enforcement.

    Ramapo Sociology majors have gained internship experience with the Office of Senator Bob Menendez and the New Jersey Courts Intensive Supervision Program, as well as numerous governmental and non-profit organizations in Northern New Jersey.

    Spanish for Health Care and Human Services Professionals

    About Spanish for Health Care and Human Services Professionals

    The Spanish for Health Care and Human Services Certificate aims at developing students’ linguistic proficiency and cultural competency in Spanish so that they can operate professionally in a medical and human services setting with native speakers of the language.  The courses in the certificate are designed to familiarize students with the intricacies of the language (especially false cognates) to make them effective translators and interpreters. The projects for all their certificate courses will be focused on a comprehensive understanding of health care and human services, including topics as diverse as the analysis of preventive campaigns, historical representations of different diseases or debates on race and ethnicity.  The objectives of this multi-pronged approach are to endow students with the capacity to overcome linguistic barriers and gain an understanding of cultural competency that would allow for building patient-practitioner relationship.

    Program Enrollment/Application:

    Current RCNJ students in Good Academic Standing are automatically eligible for the Spanish for Health Care and Human Services Certificate, and should use the Major/Minor Declaration Form available through the Registrar’s Office to enroll in this program.

    Non-Ramapo students are welcome to apply to this program as a Non-Degree Seeking Student through Ramapo’s Office of Admissions.

    To sign up for the Certificate Program:

    Contact Associate Professor of Spanish, Natalia Santamaria Laorden, at 201.684.7426 or nsantama@ramapo.edu

    • Become familiar with vocabulary applicable to medical or human services settings.
    • Develop communication skills necessary to compile a medical history or do a human services assessment.
    • Demonstrate oral proficiency to handle patient’s or client’s complaints or concerns
    • Develop effective preventive or social awareness campaigns
    • Analyze and question representations of diseases in international media (zika, AIDS…), paying special attention at the social and political dimensions of these representations.
    • “Demonstrate cultural competence required for negotiating a diverse global society, including intercultural understanding, dynamics of power and privilege, identifying and moving beyond the ethnocentric views we receive from our culture”
    • Prepare students to take the Bilingual Communicative Ability Test (BICAT) administered by the State of New Jersey Civil Service Commission.

    Sample Classes

    See Full Program Requirements

    Spanish Language Studies

    About Spanish Language Studies

    Hola! Are you looking to have a competitive edge once you enter the job force? Do you want to learn how to speak Spanish, or put your Spanish speaking skills to good use while learning about Hispanic culture?

    The Spanish Language Studies major at Ramapo College integrates the skills needed to communicate efficiently and confidently in Spanish, and provides a solid background in the history, cultures, and literatures of the Hispanic world.

    Classes you can take:

    Contemporary Spanish, Early Transatlantic Encounters, Latin American Literature Since 1900, Hispanic Women’s Voices & Images, Foreign Language Pedagogy, Hispanic Culture Through Artists, Nueva York Latino, Spanish Civilization, The Art of Conversation in Spanish, Rewriting Hispanic Identity

    See Full Program Requirements

    Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)Hands-On Learning

    As part of your coursework, you are required to pursue an approved summer, semester- or year-long study abroad program in a Spanish-speaking country, service-learning experience, or internship program. Ramapo students have previously gained experience interning with the Venezuelan Consulate, Grupo Cajola, Institute for International Education, ABC’s The View, The Feminist Press and the New York Public Library.

    There are many study abroad possibilities as well. For information please see following link: https://www.ramapo.edu/study-abroad/program-options/

    Through your courses, Ramapo’s goals are to develop your advanced proficiency in speaking, reading, writing, and listening as well as in the cultural and socio-linguistic aspects of Spanish.

    About Minor

    The Spanish Language Studies minor at Ramapo College will provide you with the skills needed to communicate efficiently and confidently in Spanish, at the same time it will give you a solid background in the history, cultures, and literatures of the Hispanic world. Furthermore, our innovative curriculum extends beyond the traditional spaces of the Hispanic world to explore and celebrate the diversity of the Spanish-speaking communities today, including the vibrant and varied communities of the United States. Such a comprehensive approach to Spanish Language Studies prepares students for success in graduate school as well as a wide range of careers in business, education, community organizations, law, communications, health professions, and government.

    Spanish minors are made up of both native or heritage speakers and non-native second language learners. This not only makes for a diverse, rich classroom experience, but it also allows students to use their unique strengths and gaps in linguistic and/or cultural knowledge to learn from one another.  In this way, you have the opportunity to acquire a key skill in mastering any language – understanding how we learn language itself. Studying language is one of the best ways to become culturally competent, that is, being able to interact effectively in more than one culture. Everyone knows the U.S. and the world today are highly globalized and in order to negotiate successfully in them, we need to understand and appreciate diversity. Your college experience should do this for you.

    Special Education (4+1 BS/MA)

    About Special Education (4+1 BS/MA)

    The MASE 4+1 Dual Certification program offers students the option of a five-year integrated undergraduate and graduate program that prepares them to be both elementary or secondary content area teachers, as well as teachers of students with special needs. The MASE 4+1 Dual Certification program option is ideal for students who are specifically interested in:

    • the academic rigor and opportunity to achieve:
      • a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education (BSEE) and Master of Arts in Special Education (MASE) degree in just five years; or
      • a bachelor’s degree in a Content Area aligned with Secondary Certification and Master of Arts in Special Education (MASE) degree in just five years; and
    • obtaining either:
      • NJ Elementary (K-6) Certificate of Eligibility with Advanced Standing (CEAS) and NJ Teacher of Students with Disabilities Endorsement; or
      • NJ Subject Area (K-12) Certificate of Eligibility with Advanced Standing (CEAS) and NJ Teacher of Students with Disabilities Endorsement.

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    Special Education (MASE)

    About M.A. in Special Education (MASE)

    Are you passionate about working with students with disabilities? Could you see yourself working in an inclusive classroom setting for a group of diverse learners?

    The Master of Arts in Special Education is designed with the active classroom teacher in mind, the program provides prospective special education teachers with the foundation and tools required to accommodate the diverse learning styles and varied levels of instruction that address the needs of K-12 students.

    Classes you can take:

    Home School and Community for Diverse Learners, Language, Literacy and Learning in a Diverse Setting, Implementation of Professional Skills, School Based Assessment and Implementing Data-Driven Decisions, Interdisciplinary Studies in a Diverse Classroom, Inclusion, Assistive Technology

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    The Ramapo MASE program allows you as a prospective Special Educator to:

    • Study under exemplary leaders in the field;
    • Gain hands-on learning through a field internship available at your current school;
    • Integrate theory and practice through an applied capstone research capstone;
    • Bring real experience to life and learn from other educators in Ramapo’s cohort model program;
    • Complete all requirements in preparation of the Teacher of Students with Disabilities Certification

    The MASE program enables you as a teacher to focus on differentiating instruction and adapting or modifying general education curricula, such as reading, writing and math. You will be a specially trained as an educator to also teach basic skills concepts, such as literacy, life skills, and communication techniques, to students with severe disabilities.

    Sports Management

    About Sports Management

    Whether you’re a die-hard pro football fan or just interested in sports, now could be a good time to think about a career in sports management. Sports entertainment is a huge business. There are many job opportunities for new graduates with educational exposure to sports management and the “playing field” is open to all levels of education. It doesn’t matter if you want to become a coach for a middle school or try your hand with working for the NFL, the doors are wide open.

    The Anisfield School of Business’s Minor in Sports Management prepares students to have the knowledge, skills, tools and competencies required to understand sport, sport industry, and sport-related issues through an interdisciplinary lens.

    Classes you can take:

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    Statistics

    About Statistics

    Statistics is the science of designing studies or experiments, collecting data, and modeling/analyzing data for the purpose of decision making and scientific discovery. The ability to obtain, analyze and synthesize large amounts of data is key to most research in both the natural sciences and the social sciences. The Statistics minor is designed to encourage students of any discipline to gain a deeper understanding of statistics.

    The Statistics Minor is also ideally suited to prepare students for actuarial science, graduate school, and careers in industrial statistics, biostatistics and research.

    Classes you can take:

    Besides the three required courses listed above, the minor requires one elective in an applied area of Statistics. Therefore, this minor is particularly well-suited for students that already plan to take one of the following: BADM 225 – Management Statistics, BIOL 345 – Nutrition and Human Metabolism, CMPS 320 – Machine Learning, DATA 101 – Introduction to Data Science, ENSC 345 – Research Design & Statistics, MATH 370 Applied Statistics, NURS 325 – Statistics, or SWRK – Social Work Research Methods.

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    Students take one elective course in an applied area of statistics such as Machine Learning, Nursing, Management Statistics, Research Methods, etc.

    Substance Use Disorders

    About Substance Use Disorders

    Ramapo College offers a minor in Substance Use Disorders that is primarily designed for students who are interested in counseling people with substance use disorders.

    The minor in Substance Use Disorders is designed to fulfill all of the academic requirements applicable towards state certification in substance use disorder counseling (Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor).

    The minor will be of particular interest to students majoring in the helping professions such as psychology and social work. Some courses in the minor also count towards satisfying major requirements in psychology and social work. However, the minor is open to all interested students.Students will be expected to have an introductory course in either psychology or social work as prerequisites for the minor sequence.

    The courses in the minor will include:

    • Substance Use Disorders (An introductory course that must be taken prior to core courses).
    • Case Management and the Recovery Ecosystem
    • Counseling for Substance Use Disorders I
    • Counseling for Substance Use Disorders II

    The courses are repeated each year so that they can be taken in as few as three semesters.

    Classes you can Take:

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    The faculty teaching in this program are all professionals in the field of substance use disorders. In addition to full-time faculty and staff at Ramapo College, experts from the community teach in the program on an adjunct basis. This provides students with the best combination: excellent teachers who have years of direct, professional experience in the field.

    Sustainability

    About Sustainability

    The socio-ecological challenges of the 21st century require individuals who understand ecological, economic, and social complexities and can implement a holistic perspective to engaging with problems at local, regional and global scales. The Sustainability Major at Ramapo College equips students to apply a supra-disciplinary approach to address complex problems in ways that transcend the conventional disciplinary mindset.

    Businesses, governmental agencies, educational organizations and community groups increasingly recognize the need for sustainability practitioners. This requires individuals with expertise in a systems approach to the triple bottom line that integrates society, ecology and economy. By combining theory with projects and experiential learning, the major provides students with depth in Sustainability thinking and practice, which can be applied to any field.

    Students who complete this major are equipped to apply integrative skill sets to their careers in ways that provide meaningful contributions to our social and ecological well-being. The Major empowers students to incorporate civic engagement, social justice and personal transformation into their lives.This BA in Sustainability is designed to provide a uniquely cross-disciplinary foundation that allows students to apply the principles and practices of sustainability within the context of particular areas of interests, such as business, science, social science, humanities and other areas of study. Students are encouraged to either double-major with other fields, or to choose two or more minors of intense interest. The curriculum includes foundational courses that focus on sustainability from social, business, and ecological perspectives, an integrative seminar that synthesizes across the foundational areas, core courses where students engage in in-depth exploration of sustainability. Students also take three courses chosen from one of a select group of majors, as well as a capstone course that serves as the culminating experience for the major.

    • Business and Sustainability
    • Sustainable Natural Resources
    • World Sustainability
    • Environmental Policy
    • World Literature and the Environment
    • Energy and Society
    • Leadership in Sustainability

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    Teacher Education

    About Teacher Education

    The Teacher Education Program at Ramapo College of New Jersey is offered through the School of Social Science and Human Services which is fully certified by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. The Ramapo program is approved by the New Jersey State Department of Education under the standards established by the National Association of State Director of Teacher Education and Certification. Teacher preparation candidates are prepared to become student oriented teachers who design high quality learning activities to meet a broad spectrum of learning styles and learning needs.

    Ramapo College is located ideally for access to field experience opportunities. Many outstanding urban, suburban, and rural school districts are within a reasonable distance from the college and are most generous in their efforts to support high standards in teacher preparation.

    Classes you can take:

    Social Context of Education, Teaching: Principles and Practices, Instructional Technology, Introduction to Special Education, Student Teaching Seminar, Learning, Cognition, and Teaching,

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    Hands-On Learning

    The Ramapo College of New Jersey Teacher Education and Certification Program is committed to the preparation of teachers who are highly competent in their academic disciplines and instructional skills. Our program, aligned with the New Jersey Professional Standards for Teachers, and nationally accredited by the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) prepares students at the undergraduate and post-baccalaureate level to be teachers who model reflective, innovative behavior while demonstrating love and enthusiasm for life-long learning.  The Teacher Education and Certification Program at Ramapo College seeks to ensure that teachers are prepared to communicate effectively, establish productive relationships, and respond to the needs of individual learners, the teaching profession, and the greater community in a fair, equitable manner.  Finally, our program emphasizes the needs of a democratic society.  We are preparing teachers to be leaders in the effort to make the world a safer, more compassionate, and more productive place where respect for all life, for our environment, and for the dignity and diversity of all people will be common priorities.

    Theater

    About Theater

    The Theater Major offers a comprehensive study of Theater in four areas of concentration: Acting, Directing/Stage Management, Design/Technical, and Theater Studies. Courses are offered in acting (stage, film/TV), directing, stagecraft, set design, lighting design, costume design, stage management, dramatic literature, theater history, and dance. Through a high level of active participation, students gain a broad perspective in all areas of theater while developing individual talents and skills in their chosen concentration. The Theater program produces four major productions each year directed by faculty and professional guest directors. The main season is supplemented by a variety of student directed projects and guest artist workshops.

    Classes and productions take place in the Angelica and Russ Berrie Center for the Performing and Visual Arts. This facility offers a 338 seat proscenium theater, a flexible experimental performance space, a dance studio/rehearsal hall, and fully equipped costume and scenery shops.

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    Classes you can Take:

    Intro to Theater, Theater Practicum, Visual Imagination, Basic Acting, Development of Modern Theater, Voice and Movement, Auditioning, Clowning and Comedy, Scene Studies, Basic Lighting for Stage and TV, Set Design, Stage Makeup, Drafting for Stage and TV, Costume Design.

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    Classes and productions take place in the Angelica and Russ Berrie Center for the Performing and Visual Arts. This facility offers a 338-seat proscenium theater, a flexible experimental performance space, a dance studio/rehearsal hall, and fully equipped costume and scenery shops.

    You’ll also have plenty of opportunities to get your feet wet in various parts projects, such as the four Theater Program major productions each year directed by faculty and professional guest directors. The main season is supplemented by a variety of student directed projects and guest artist workshops.

    Theater Studies

    About Theater Studies

    Want to explore the ways that theater has changed the world? And how it expresses and reflects human culture, relationships and behavior?

    The Theater major with a concentration in Theater Studies focuses on the theory, history, and practice of theater as a part of the larger context of art and culture. Coursework will not only focus on theater, but also study other arts including visual arts and film, to better understand the various elements and forms of representation that influence and affect the creation and reception of the interdisciplinary art of theater.

    CLASSES YOU COULD TAKE: Basic Playwriting, Basic Directing, American Drama, Survey of Greek Drama, Development of Modern Theater, World Cinema Movements

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    Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)Hands-On Learning

    Classes and productions take place in the Angelica and Russ Berrie Center for the Performing and Visual Arts. This facility offers a 338-seat proscenium theater, a flexible experimental performance space, a dance studio/rehearsal hall, and fully equipped costume and scenery shops.

    You’ll also have plenty of opportunities to get your feet wet in various parts projects, such as the four Theater Program major productions each year directed by faculty and professional guest directors. The main season is supplemented by a variety of student directed projects and guest artist workshops.

    Visual Arts

    About Visual Arts

    The Visual Arts Major offers a multidisciplinary education in the arts with advanced study in one specialization. Students may choose courses in art history, art and technology, 3-D modeling and animation, drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and video. Advanced specialization is available in:

    • Art History
    • Electronic Art and Animation
    • Drawing and Painting
    • Photography
    • Sculpture

    Classes you can Take:

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    The Visual Arts are taught within a liberal arts context that makes the study and practice of art relevant to non-majors as well as majors. The study of art not only increases self-confidence in expression and enhances aesthetic satisfaction, but also reveals the social, political and ideological concerns of the culture that produces it. The art history curriculum, in particular, develops this understanding, allowing the student to make essential connections among the world, the work of art, the artist, and the viewer. In addition, The College Galleries, directed by Sydney Jenkins, are an important teaching experiential component of the major, bringing nationally recognized artists and curators to the college.

    Members of the Visual Arts faculty are all nationally or internationally recognized active professionals who bring the understanding and immediacy of such experience to students. Students enjoy an intimate, intensive, creative atmosphere and have greater opportunities for close work with faculty than is usually the case in schools with large art departments.

    Students with academic and career interests outside the designated areas of specialization may elect to design a Contemporary Arts contract major to help fulfill their goals. Visual Arts faculty can provide information regarding offerings in the areas of Art Therapy, Arts Management, and related art activities contained within the Arts in Community contract major.

    Visual Communication Design

    About Visual Communication Design

    Visual communication designers play an important role in the world in which they live. They show us how to navigate through life, interact with technology, see complex data as beautiful graphical information, and endlessly entertain their audiences. Designers are a necessity in our lives and the profession continues to grow along with the needs of society and our world. To this end, the Communication Arts major with a concentration in Visual Communication Design (VCD) at Ramapo College offers an impressive array of design courses as well as today’s most in-demand disciplines, including user experience design and user interface design.

    Visual Communication Design Concentration: Ramapo College’s Visual Communication Design Concentration prepares students for professional careers and post-graduate studies in print design, advertising design, motion graphics, interaction design, animation, game design, user experience/user interface (UX/UI) design, information architecture and front-end coding. Alumni forge successful careers in a broad range of industries that include publishing, advertising, technology, healthcare, media, non-profit, corporate and government.

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    Hands-On Learning

    Built on a liberal arts foundation, coursework includes idea development, graphic design, design history, typography, print design, web design, animation design, motion graphics, visual effects, experiential internships, as well as many other courses and electives to choose from. Because of the program’s interdisciplinary nature, you are also afforded the opportunity to choose elective courses from other related areas including photography, filmmaking, journalism, magazine design, sound design, music, theater, and fine arts.

    Want to fine tune your skills? You’ll have access to a wide range of facilities, including computer labs for digital imaging, print design, and interactive multimedia production. Then you can join fellow Ramapo students who completed internship experiences with local organizations such as at NBC, Viacom, Buzzfeed, Olgivy Health, KMPG and more.

    Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

    About Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

    The minor in Women’s and Gender Studies introduces students to the dynamic international body of knowledge and creative work about women and gender which have emerged since the 1970s. Students work with femininity and masculinity as social categories, and become acquainted with the current realities and history of feminism and gender in the U.S. and worldwide. Courses in Women’s and Gender Studies are often settings which enable students to formulate educational and career objectives based on a clearer sense of their social world, their own strengths, and their special values. The minor is a logical component of a student’s preparation for a career in law, business, public health, the social services, and teaching.

    Classes you can take:

    Women Writers: A Medley of Voices, Women in Contemporary Society, Gender and Sexuality, Witchcraft in History, Gender and the Law, Comparative Feminist Theories, Gender at Work, Music and Gender, Psychology of Gender, Love and Sexuality

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    Writing

    About Writing

    Do you dream of being introduced as an author? Would you love to explore writing techniques for poetry, non-fiction, creative writing or newscasts?

    The Communication Arts major with a concentration in Writing prepares students to demonstrate good research, writing, editing, and storytelling skills as a basis for exploring work in other media.

    CLASSES YOU CAN TAKE: Writing for Social Media, Story Structure: Documentary/Fiction Film, Writing for Publication, Creative Non-Fiction, Environmental Writing, Intro. to Creative Writing, Promotions Writing, The Narrative Art, Writing for Public Relations, Senior Project: Writing

     

    Career Opportunities (text only without salary table)

    Your courses will prepare you for careers in non-fiction, such as newspaper, online or broadcast reporting or fiction writing, such as in book publishing, editing, scriptwriting or manuscript development. With strong writing and storytelling skills, you can also pursue more genre-specific studies in broadcast journalism, prose, fiction, multimedia and interactive narratives, or filmmaking.

    Ramapo graduates include an assistant editor at John Wiley and Sons, a 2014 finalist for the New York Screenplay Contest, a marketing analyst, assistant video editor at NFL Films and content/copy writer and pursuing graduate work.

    Hands-On Learning

    As a Ramapo Communication Arts major with a concentration in Writing, you’ll have plenty of options for internship and co-ops in the area. Ramapo students have gained experience working with Al Roker Entertainment, Inc., Pearson Higher Education, New Jersey 101.5, The New York Public Library, IZOD Center & Giants Stadium, Marie Claire Magazine, The New York Red Bulls, and The Bleacher Report. You can also get involved on campus and craft your writing style by joining the College’s student-run newspaper Ramapo News.

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