UNC’s School of Art and Design stands out for its practical, pre-professional approach. You’ll develop technical skills, while learning to market yourself effectively as a creative professional, freelancer or entrepreneur. Our Art and Design program grants you a high degree of independence, enabling you to focus the program on your own artistic interests and career pursuits.

Job prospects are bright for Registered Dietitian Nutritionists—especially those who graduate from UNC’s accredited dietetics bachelor’s degree program. About 75 percent of our students (above the national average) are admitted to postgraduate internships, which are required before you can take the national board examination to become a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN).

Bachelor of Arts Degree Option - Business and Public Policy from a Christian World View focuses on Biblical foundations of business and Christian statesmanship precepts. The student will be able to navigate these areas with a Christian worldview.

Our career-focused bachelor’s degree in Recreation, Tourism and Hospitality offers superior preparation for one of the world’s most exciting industries. You’ll gain more than 500 hours of hands-on workplace experience, while learning from faculty who’ve spent years in the travel and leisure industry and have extensive professional connections. The degree provides you with a comprehensive overview of recreation and tourism trends, marketing tools, audience segments and entrepreneurial opportunities.

Begin your career with training that provides you with the modern skills to work in the field. Experience a broad range of music and hone your skills to find your own voice. Receive individual training from artist-faculty that are active in the field. Take advantage of the broad range of musical activities at UNC to receive inspiration and collaborate with your colleagues to see your efforts come to life. UNC’s stellar music technology facilities will also aid you in your study.

UNC prepares nurses to impact and provide them with the skills and experience they need to earn a nursing license and excel in the profession. In our Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, you’ll learn from exceptional faculty and gain approximately 1,000 hours of clinical training, becoming part of a tight-knit community of teachers, students, practitioners, and mentors.

In the wide-open landscape of rural Colorado, a group of students gathers data about food deserts. The topic is part of their class focus on food and place. They are studying how humans impact the landscape and how the landscape shapes people’s lives. These students can tell you that geography is far more than examining maps and locations.

The Digital Media area offers state-of-the-art computer imaging, artistic exploration, communication through storytelling, and knowledge visualization, which are skills often sought by prospective employers. Students learn techniques for image quality, artistic development for concepts, 3D printing, animation, video production, digital illustration, scientific illustration, and technical illustration, along with storyboarding, storyline development, storytelling techniques, character development, visual music, and graphic arts.

The Graphic Design program at UNC will prepare you to work as a visual thinker and communicator using a variety of traditional print and emerging digital media. The program integrates practice, theory, and inquiry, while refining and encouraging innovation, critical thinking, visual literacy, and conceptual problem-solving. The Liberal Arts curriculum also provides a broad-based foundation for additional experiences in other areas of art, science, journalism, advertising, marketing, and media.

The sculpture program introduces and encourages exploration into many processes, materials, and contemporary concepts, using a 3-D multi-media approach. Listed are some of the opportunities for beginning and advanced students: Bronze and aluminum casting, using the ceramic shell mold processes. Fabrication in steel, using MIG and TIG welding, plasma cutting, and sheet metal forming.