Trinity offers 49 majors, 61 minors, and several interdisciplinary and advising programs. Along with opportunities in undergraduate research, internships, and study abroad programs, students may merge their talents with self-designed interdisciplinary majors.
Additionally, Trinity offers Undergraduate Degrees in Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Music, with advising programs in Pre-Law and Health Professions (including Pre-Medical).
Accounting has been called "the language of business." Students majoring in Accounting are involved with specialized coursework and public accounting internships that prepare them for careers as accounting professionals. Successful Accounting majors may pursue graduate study in Trinity's prestigious nine-month Master's Program in Accounting.
The major in ancient Mediterranean studies (AMS) combines the history, art, culture and literature of the ancient world into a cohesive intellectual enterprise. Because of the major's breadth, courses from a variety of departments count towards the AMS major, making it easy to combine the study of the classical world with another major.
The major in biology is designed to help students develop a thorough understanding of biological processes and the methods used to expand scientific knowledge. While our biology courses stress fundamental principles, students also have the opportunity to concentrate their studies in specific areas of biological interest.
Students majoring in Business Administration may concentrate in either Marketing or Management. Marketing concerns itself with the coordination of product, pricing, distribution, and promotion decisions designed to bring about exchanges between organizations and consumers. Management relates to the study of leadership skills, team-building skills, human resource issues, and organizational behavior.
Business Analytics & Technology (BAT) majors are able to make sense of big data sets, perform analyses, and recommend leading edge process improvements that allow companies to operate efficiently and maximize performance. Students who major in BAT work in close partnership with companies of all sizes and sectors to apply what they learn in the classroom to real-world settings and with real-world data.
The B.S. in Chemistry is a rigorous four-year degree for students who plan to be professional chemists. The program meets the standards set by the American Chemical Society in training chemists for the profession and for graduate programs. The B.A. in Chemistry is a slightly less-intensive degree designed for students interested in secondary teaching, premedical training, or interdisciplinary studies.
Trinity's distinctive curriculum, global opportunities, and emphasis on economic applications gives students the challenging and rewarding experience of studying economic principles in theoretical economics, economics and law, economics and business, international economics, economics and public policy, and general economics.
A B.S. in engineering science features design at its core. Students take at least one design course per semester, with emphasis on creativity, critical thinking, and the development of decision-making skills. They also complete a major design project each year that ties classroom learning to practical experience.
The discipline of Finance includes corporate finance, investments, financial intermediaries and markets, and international finance. Students majoring in Finance take classes in all of these areas and also have opportunities for experiential learning, including participation in the prestigious Student Managed Fund program.
Global Latinx Studies, an interdisciplinary analysis of the Latinx experience from past to present. Spanning the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences, the major focuses on the Latinx diasporas throughout the world, including communities with a shared colonial past with Spain and Portugal.
The major in Greek requires completion of the elementary and intermediate sequence of courses (12 hours) or the equivalent in Greek. In addition, 27 hours of courses chosen from those listed under Classics Courses in English, Greek, or Latin, including 12 upper division hours of Greek. (Courses in Latin credited towards the Greek major may also be credited towards the minor in Latin.) The major also requires electives sufficient to total 124 hours.
A major in human communication at Trinity emphasizes the study of human communication as a humane, artistic discipline grounded in personal choice. The major examines how people develop, adapt, and transmit messages within and across various cultures and channels. It offers a wide range of classes covering public communication, rhetorical theory, and the social context of human communication.
International business is concerned with the theories, experience, and methods of doing business across borders. Students who major in International Business are equipped with international knowledge, social-cultural skills, and transnational experience. All majors must demonstrate advanced understanding of a foreign language, participate in a study abroad program, and complete an approved international internship.
International studies concentrations are individual programs of study that are designed by students in consultation with the appropriate concentration adviser. Courses taken while studying abroad can be applied to the major. Concentrations include: African studies; East Asian studies; European studies; the Mexico, the Americas, and Spain program; Middle East studies; International affairs; and International environmental studies.
The B.S. in neuroscience is a multi-disciplinary program designed to provide an understanding of the nature and functioning of the nervous system from the molecular to the behavioral level. Courses, taught by faculty from the biology, psychology, and chemistry departments, offer a broad spectrum of topics and approaches to the study of neural systems' structure and function.
The major in philosophy covers traditional areas of philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and aesthetics. It also offers courses that are not commonly found in undergraduate philosophy departments, such as Hellenistic Philosophy, Pragmatism, Philosophy of Culture, Non-Classical Logics, and Biomedical Ethics.
The B.A. in psychology emphasizes principles and methods as well as a series of course clusters: basic psychological and perceptual processes; development; learning, memory, and cognition; and social and individual differences. Students may also take companion courses, participate in field research, or write a directed thesis.
The religion curriculum provides students an opportunity to become familiar with the history and principal features of the world's major religious traditions as well as some of the significant alternatives to traditional religions. The major in religion draws from five major areas: The traditions, modern and contemporary, textual and literary, regional, and theoretical.
The major in Spanish consists of upper-division courses taught in Spanish, as well as a study abroad or language immersion component. Courses in Spanish are taught throughout the University as part of the Languages Across the Curriculum Program, and range from cinema and culture to business and politics.
The American intercultural studies minor helps students develop the skills and knowledge necessary for intercultural understanding and cooperation in today's diverse society. In addition, the program seeks to enhance positive associations with and among the people of various intercultural communities.
The minor in ancient Mediterranean students requires the completion of at least 18 hours of courses chosen from those listed under Classics in English, Greek, or Latin, of which at least 9 hours must be in the upper division. Ancient Mediterranean studies is a minor in ancient culture and does not require a language, although language courses do count toward this degree.
The art minor gives an understanding of the vital importance of visual culture in human expression. Courses are offered in painting, drawing, sculpture (stone, wood, metal, plaster, and clay), photography, digital imaging, printmaking, papermaking, and the book arts. The minor requires 24 semester hours in studio art and 3 semester hours in art history.
The minor in art and art history is designed to help students relate an understanding of artistic creativity to their major field of study. The requirements for this minor are 24 semester hours in studio art and art history, 9 hours of which must be in art history and 9 hours of which must be in studio art; at least 9 hours must be upper division.
The Arts, Letters, and Enterprise program enables students to gain business literacy while pursuing majors in the humanities, arts, social sciences, or natural sciences. The program builds on Trinity's liberal arts core and its business administration program, offering two paths for students: a minor and a certification program.
The biomathematics minor combines the study of biology, mathematics, and engineering science. Students examine questions at the intersection of fields such as ecology, genetics, and neuroscience with probability, statistics, and mathematical modeling. The minor requires 18 core hours, plus 7 hours of advanced study and 3 hours of contemporary topics in biomathematics.
The minor in communication management is an interdisciplinary program that studies both advertising and public relations as part of the management of communication processes by combining mass media, speech communication, marketing, and business principles. The minor requires completion of 24 semester hours, consisting of 15 hours in required courses and 3 hours in each elective area.
The minor in comparative literature is designed for students who want to pursue the study of literature unrestricted by national boundaries and conventional demarcations of culture. Comparative literature recognizes that all literary texts exist within the framework of world cultures and emphasizes the importance of bringing a multicultural perspective to understanding literary traditions.
Students who want to explore the languages and cultures of East Asia in some depth, but whose primary interests lie elsewhere, may choose a minor in East Asian Studies. The 24-hour minor combines a 6-hour core in East Asian culture, 12 hours of upper division Asian language, and 6 hours of electives taught in English.
The interdisciplinary minor in entrepreneurship is designed to cultivate, coordinate, and integrate Trinity's diverse resources for the development and application of creative entrepreneurial behavior and achievement. The minor builds on the overlap of three clusters of programs including art and humanities, science and engineering, and business and social sciences.
The environmental studies minor provides an interdisciplinary study of Earth's environment and how human beings interact with it. The required courses address environmental issues from natural science, economic, and sociocultural perspectives. The minor requires at least 12 hours of lower division courses and at least 9 hours of upper-division courses.
The film studies minor, a 21-hour minor, recognizes film as a valuable form of cultural history. The discipline of film studies includes a range of activities, such as film history, film interpretation, and film theory. Production courses play a major role in any film studies program, and Trinity's film studies minor encourages students to take courses on video production, photography, writing, and other practical skills.
Trinity's linguistics minor provides students an opportunity to study the principles involved in the most basic and universal of human symbol systems. The minor equips students with the ability to understand the phenomenal process that we use in order to acquire our native linguistic abilities. The minor requires 4 semesters of a language other than English, plus 18 additional hours, 9 of which must be upper division.
The minor in medieval and Renaissance studies, an 18-hour minor, allows students the opportunity to discover and re-examine knowledge about the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and teaches students how to employ a variety of methods of historical and theoretical analysis as models for such scholarship.
Trinity’s interdisciplinary minor in New Media is designed to prepare students to function professionally, academically, and personally in diverse new media environments. The required courses provide a foundation upon which students build an understanding of New Media in relation to art, communication, computer science, art history, English, engineering, philosophy, psychology, and/or music. The minor promotes new media research, development, and design while preparing students for careers in new media and other fields being transformed by evolving communication technologies.
The sport management minor brings several academic departments together including business administration, economics, communication, history, human communication and theatre, and others to provide students a broad understanding of sports' impact and place in society. The 24-semester-hour interdisciplinary minor is designed to ensure graduates understand the important role sports play in society.
The theatre minor consists of 20 hours, including University Theatre Company I (two semesters for a total of 2 semester hours), 9 hours from a required core of classes, and 9 hours of additional theatre electives, of which no more than 3 credit hours of directed study or special topic courses may be applied.
The women's and gender studies minor, a 19-hour minor, explores the cultural construction of gender and sexuality. Courses in the program examine gender and sexuality in the context of race and class, global and domestic politics, religion, and critical theory through literature, visual arts, and other media. The classes are designed to give students the critical skills and intellectual training they need to ground their personal and political concerns.
Trinity University's Master of Arts in School Psychology is three-year, 60 semester hour graduate program that includes a yearlong internship and emphasizes preparation in assessment, mental health, child development, school organization, learning styles and processes, behavior, motivation, and effective teaching.
Our five-year experience offers a combined baccalaureate and professional Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) degree. Trinity undergraduates intending to enter the M.A.T. program major in the subject they plan to teach, and earn a bachelor of arts or bachelor of science in their academic discipline upon completion of undergraduate studies. Students then continue on into the one year, graduate-level program to earn their masters as well as state teacher certification during the 5th year.
Trinity's Principal Fellows program is an innovative and intensive preparation that equips candidates with the transformational leadership skills required of successful educational leaders today. Candidates join a cohort of 20 members to earn a Master of Education degree in School Leadership and a State of Texas Principal certificate.
Trinity's Master of Science in accounting seeks to prepare students for a lifetime of learning and professional development. The program is the capstone to a process that begins with Trinity accounting students during their junior year, continues through senior year internships, and culminates with a master's education that enhances a lifelong accounting career.
Trinity University's health care administration program develops leaders who are able to adapt and respond to the needs of health care and prepares them for the challenges of 21st century health care delivery. With two unique programs of study available to health care administration students--a three-year, on-campus program and a 23-month, off-campus executive program--our curriculum fits the schedule of an experienced professional or a recent college graduate.