Oshkosh Campus Schedule
Monday, February 13th
Office of International Education
The Office of International Education matches current UWO students with study abroad and advises international students on University and Intensive English Program admissions and immigration regulations, and supports UW Oshkosh faculty and academic staff in the development of group programs abroad.
UWO ranked #19 among U.S. Master’s Colleges and Universities in the total number of students who studied abroad on short-term programs in 2015/2016.
Global Languages and Cultures
The UW Oshkosh Department of Global Languages and Cultures provides comprehensive training in language and cultures to majors, minors, certificate seekers, and students in the general education or USP courses preparing to compete in the global workforce. Students benefit from the combination of a strong liberal arts foundation and a holistic approach to global learning guided by award-winning faculty who are experts in languages including French, German, Japanese, and Spanish.
African American Studies
The African American Studies Program at UW Oshkosh offers an undergraduate minor in African American Studies (AAS). This enlightening degree program complements any college major and broadens students’ perspectives while increasing employment opportunities after graduation.
In addition to academics, the AAS program drives meaningful change in the campus community through cultural activities, student organizations and educational events.
Sage Lobby
2:00pm-5:00pm
Criminal Justice
UWO’s Criminal Justice Department offers a Major and Minor in Criminal Justice. The criminal justice curriculum for the major is designed to prepare students for careers in many professions related to crime and justice (criminal justice careers). Courses focusing on law, corrections, policing and criminology teach students about the complexities associated with the criminal justice process and crime analysis. In addition to this course work, criminal justice students have the opportunity to learn outside the classroom through criminal justice internships at a variety of criminal justice agencies. And, since our criminal justice major includes a focus on criminological theory, research methodology, statistical analysis, and law, graduates earn a criminal justice education that will have prepared them to pursue advanced degrees in the fields of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Law.
Sociology
When a student declares a sociology major or minor at UW Oshkosh, they are opening the doors to a career filled with wonder, excitement and lifelong learning.
By declaring a sociology major or minor, students both learn about themselves and learn how to analyze the world around them through a different lens. Sociology majors and minors go on to be leaders in all kinds of professions, from human resources, to market research, to public administration, to law enforcement and more.
Social Justice
Develop a secondary field of knowledge and expertise that will enable you to critically examine the values that constitute social justice in theory and practice, understand the principles of effective social activism, and formulate and evaluate policies that seek to address issues such as racism, violence, literacy, human rights, gender equity, gender expression, poverty, hunger and conservation of the environment.
Military Science/ROTC
Since Military Science advanced courses (302, 302, 401 and 402) are required for the minor (and only contracted cadets can enroll in those courses), realistically, only contracted cadets will be able to complete a Military Science minor.
Contracted cadets are not required to obtain a minor in Military Science but if they choose to do so, it is available to them to pursue.
Medical Laboratory Science
A Medical Laboratory Science degree from UWO will prepare you for a challenging and rewarding career in healthcare laboratories. Medical Laboratory Scientists (MLS) play a key role in the modern laboratory. Their primary responsibility is to perform tests on blood and other body fluids, and they are also responsible for laboratory procedures in areas such as clinical chemistry, microbiology, hematology, serology and urinalysis. Information gained through these tests can help a physician to identify a patient’s disease and evaluate effective treatment.
Computer Science
A bachelor’s degree in computer science from University of Wisconsin Oshkosh empowers students to expertly design and implement computational solutions that tackle today’s most challenging social, scientific, economic and business issues.
Students in the computer science program benefit from a liberal arts education and small class sizes while exploring fundamental concepts of computer science–algorithms, programming languages and software engineering techniques. In addition, students choose from rich electives that include databases, web development, operating systems, compiler design and computer networks.
Anthropology
As an anthropology student, you will experience:
▪︎ Archaeological digs ▪︎ Solving cold cases ▪︎ Studying apes and monkeys in the field ▪︎Interning in an archaeology lab, forensic lab, or ethnography lab ▪︎ Learning how to have hard conversations ▪︎ Engage with your local community through hands on experiences ▪︎ Learning to write transformative policies ▪︎ Be a part of a vibrant community of enthusiastic and highly motivated group of people ▪︎ Be a better human! Be the best you!
Engineering & Engineering Technology
Make an impact in a diverse field where graduates are in high demand! Sharpen your skills with a bachelor’s degree in engineering technology at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Students gain hands-on, applied engineering experience in electrical, mechanical or environmental engineering through partnerships with regional leaders in the field. Engineering Technology and Engineering are separate but closely related professional fields. UW Oshkosh will help you discover which program is the best fit for you.
Psychology
Human Kinetics & Health Education (tentative)
Tuesday, February 14th
History
Students at UW Oshkosh can choose 36-credit major or 24-credit minor in history. The UWO Department of History is dedicated to teaching and researching the history of the world. We believe that obtaining a nuanced and informed historical perspective can help every citizen think critically, clearly and creatively.
Radio TV Film
The UW Oshkosh Radio TV Film program offers a relevant, hands-on education that will help you establish a career in the field of modern media production.
With unparalleled access to our professional facilities and equipment, our students continue to produce work that wins national and regional awards year after year. Our students land internships and jobs in every corner of the media business from Atlanta to L.A., and produce shows, films and radio that you enjoy every day.
Don’t just consume content. Create it!
Journalism
The Department of Journalism welcomes you to explore our program to find a career you love. We offer a dynamic, hands-on learning environment for majors and minors in advertising, multimedia journalism and public relations. We value the First Amendment, core journalism principles, writing and visual communication skills, creativity, professionalism and ethics.
Political Science
The Political Science Department provides a comprehensive curriculum leading to a major in Political Science, minor in Political Science, Law and Policy, or Civic Engagement.
Halsey 28
11:00am-2:00pm
Medical Laboratory Science
A Medical Laboratory Science degree from UWO will prepare you for a challenging and rewarding career in healthcare laboratories. Medical Laboratory Scientists (MLS) play a key role in the modern laboratory. Their primary responsibility is to perform tests on blood and other body fluids, and they are also responsible for laboratory procedures in areas such as clinical chemistry, microbiology, hematology, serology and urinalysis. Information gained through these tests can help a physician to identify a patient’s disease and evaluate effective treatment.
AC South Main Lobby
11:00am-2:00pm
Music
For students who love music and are seeking a career in this diverse and challenging field, the UW Oshkosh Music Department offers a number of music degree programs including Music Education, Performance, Composition, Music Business, Audio Production, Bachelor of Arts or Science in Music, and several minors and certificates. All majors and the music minor require a playing audition in order to be admitted to the program.
Outside Cafe Clow
11:00am-2:00pm
Reading and Study Skills Center
The Reading and Study Skills Center works with students of all abilities in developing the reading and study strategies that are essential for academic and career success. We teach academic skills courses, provide learning strategy coaching and conduct presentations and workshops that improve a student’s academic reading, time management and test preparation.
College of Education and Human Services Leadership
Since its inception as a teacher-training school in 1871, UW Oshkosh has been recognized as a leader in education and offers the programs to help you accomplish your goals. Titans get the support they need to thrive with small class sizes and a wealth of student support services and personalized and academic advising.
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) projects a 29% increase in the number of new teachers hired in public schools across the U.S. over the next five years. An estimated 2.2 million teachers will need to be hired and 700,000 of those will be new graduates.
College of Nursing
The College of Nursing provides students the expert knowledge, clinical practice skills and critical thinking ability necessary for success in today’s healthcare industry. As the second-largest producer of baccalaureate nursing graduates in Wisconsin and the largest major on campus, UW Oshkosh ensures each student receives the best nursing education and training in the state. College of Nursing graduates consistently exceed the national pass rate for the National Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN), a testament to the college’s excellence.
Mathematics
The mathematics department at UW Oshkosh consists of about 40 faculty, academic and administrative staff members dedicated to mathematics teaching and research. Housed in Swart Hall, the department has many technologically equipped teaching rooms, easy access to the Swart Hall computer lab and a free tutor lab for our students. We offer undergraduate majors and minors in several different mathematical emphases. The Master of Science in Mathematics Education is a program designed for the professional mathematics educator.
McNair Scholars Program
Our UWO McNair Scholars Program seeks to empower high-achieving, first-generation, low-income, and racially minoritized undergraduates to realize their potential by providing opportunities to develop skills and gain the experiences that will prepare them for graduate study. Central to our mission is to build a community of scholarship where participants engage in faculty-mentored research, distinguished by active learning, mutual respect, and collaborative scholarship. Inherit in our mission is to harness the energy of a new and more diverse generation who is committed to scholarly inquiry.
Theatre
The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh’s award-winning Theatre Department offers a program combining personalized attention with a full range of classroom and production opportunities. The theatre major exposes students to all aspects of the theatrical arts and allows students to focus their training in acting, design, technology and playwriting.
Career and Professional Development
The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh’s Career & Professional Development office provides students with career information, advice and occupational guidance, and connects employers with qualified student interns and employees.
Wednesday, February 15th
College of Business
Titans benefit from an innovative curriculum that combines a strong foundation in liberal arts with comprehensive learning in all business functions, of professional-level internship experience, and an emphasis on networking and professional skills training. As a student, you will learn from award-winning faculty with a wide range of expertise and real-world experience. The College of Business’ strong ties with region provides students with abundant opportunities for internships, employment, community service and research.
Economics BBA
Marketing
Marketing helps organizations build customer relationships and achieve their goals by understanding customer needs, researching the potential market and developing solutions to meet those needs.
Specific aspects of marketing include developing new products and services, determining how they should be priced, and creating effective communication that drives customer awareness and interest.
Accounting
Our accounting graduates are armed with the strength to analyze, interpret and communicate financial information used by management. Accounting is an exciting career that offers above-average financial opportunities. Upon graduation, many students work for public accounting firms such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young that provide accounting, auditing, taxation and management advisory services while others work for private companies and non-profit agencies.
Human Resources
The Management and Human Resources Department is home to the Management Major and the Human Resource Management Major. Read below and explore our website to learn more about these two Major options, our award-winning student clubs, and our outstanding faculty!
Finance
A degree in finance provides you with knowledge to deliver strong investment, finance planning and real estate decisions. The finance major is recommended for students who are interested in a career in financial management and for students interested in career positions with firms that provide financial services such as banks, insurance companies, brokerage firms, personal financial planning services and real estate firms. Private businesses, not-for-profit organizations and government organizations also need financial managers and analysts to help efficiently raise, allocate and manage their resources.
Outside Cafe Clow
11:00am-2:00pm
Global Languages and Cultures
Developing linguistic competence and cultural literacy are invaluable skills to becoming an informed global citizen in an increasingly interconnected world.
The UW Oshkosh Department of Global Languages and Cultures provides comprehensive training in language and cultures to majors, minors, certificate seekers, and students in the general education or USP courses preparing to compete in the global workforce. Students benefit from the combination of a strong liberal arts foundation and a holistic approach to global learning guided by award-winning faculty who are experts in languages including French, German, Japanese, and Spanish.
AC Allen Priebe Gallery
11:00am-2:00pm
Art
The Department of Art prepares students to be practitioners, educators, supporters and leaders in the professional art world. Students from all majors and backgrounds at UW Oshkosh are encouraged to take art courses to gain an appreciation for art and architecture today and throughout history.
AC South Main Lobby
11:00am-2:00pm
Communication Studies
We are excited to present you with the information you need to learn more about communication studies majors and minors. The Communication Studies Program is best known for its relevant and future career-enhancing courses with professors from all around the country and abroad.
Swart 230
11:00am-2:00pm
Social Work
Discover a challenging profession and a rewarding and stimulating career in a field that is always changing. Social workers serve on the front lines of community restoration, serving underprivileged and struggling members of the population by intervening in contexts such as child welfare, chemical dependence, aging, corrections, and physical and mental health. Social workers strive every day to improve the lives of their neighbors.
Environmental Studies
Our program gives students a broad interdisciplinary liberal arts education in environmental issues that students combine with specialized study that fits their interests and goals. We stress engagement, with students and faculty active in a variety of efforts and applying academic learning to real world problems and possibilities.
Global Religions
The main goals of the Global Religions program at UW Oshkosh are to study how individuals and communities around the world do this through their use of religious language, imagery and performance.
In studying the five major World Religions – Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism – students will engage specific issues that pertain to the Holocaust, the roles of women in the Bible, Islamic modernism, Hindu myth and ritual and Zen Buddhist practice among others.
Additionally, students will wrestle with issues that transcend and question the boundaries of these five traditions, examining comparative and contemporary issues in the study of religion, including:
- the varieties and meaning of Asian Ritual Performances
- the various religious roles that women and women’s rituals play throughout the world
- the contributions of New Religious Movements to contemporary American culture
- the place of children, children’s literature and comic books in modern religions
- the varieties of mystical experience performed throughout the world and the use of religious language in global violence and terrorism
Global Scholar
Housed within UWO’s International Studies Program, the Global Scholar Certificate is a 12-credit self-directed course of study open to all UWO students who wish to distinguish themselves as emerging global citizens prepared to navigate an increasingly complex and interdependent world.
Women's & Gender Studies
The Women’s Studies Program was created at UW Oshkosh in 1974. It became the Women’s and Gender Studies Program in 2013, to more accurately reflect the contents of its curriculum. The program seamlessly aligns with the four priorities described in UWO’s strategic plan: enhance student success, promote academic excellence, expand community engagement and economic development, and build an inclusive and supportive institutional environment.
English
The English Department offers a variety of courses to meet major, degree, and USP requirements. Select a list on this page to learn which classes we are offering next semester to meet each set of requirements. This page also provides specific topic information not found in TitanWeb, like descriptions of Optional Content topics for English major courses and themes for WRT 188 courses.
Philosophy
The Philosophy Department at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh is located on the third floor of Radford Hall, in the heart of our scenic campus on the Fox River. We are proud of our high quality undergraduate program and of the scholarship produced by the department’s faculty. Our majors have been accepted by some of the best graduate philosophy programs in the country, and many of our students find careers in business, law, and medicine. If you are interested in the department’s courses, or if you are wondering how to become a philosophy major, minor, or certificate student, please explore this website further! If you have any questions, simply contact us via email or telephone, or come by the department in person – everyone is welcome!
Thursday, February 16th
College of Business
Titans benefit from an innovative curriculum that combines a strong foundation in liberal arts with comprehensive learning in all business functions, of professional-level internship experience, and an emphasis on networking and professional skills training. As a student, you will learn from award-winning faculty with a wide range of expertise and real-world experience. The College of Business’ strong ties with region provides students with abundant opportunities for internships, employment, community service and research.
Economics BA/BS
Energy, food, time, and water are all resources that societies need but can be in short supply. By studying economics, you will learn to think critically and systematically about individual and collective decisions over the use of resources and learn how these choices affect societies. From pollution to poverty to import tariffs, students in economics use intuition, mathematical models, and statistical analysis to evaluate everyday choices made by individuals, firms, and governments. In coursework, students engage in economic modelling and applied research. Students learn to express ideas clearly and learn how to support ideas using data as evidence. The department is unique in the UW system in offering three different advanced research classes in data analysis. Companies are quickly realizing that UWO economics majors are ideal choices for advancing their analytics endeavors.
Supply Chain
Supply chain management (SCM) is an exciting and all-encompassing business field that includes planning, managing, and coordinating all of the activities from sourcing raw materials needed for production to delivering the final product to the end customer. The competitive landscape requires supply chains to compete against other supply chains. This change has resulted in strong current and future job opportunities in supply chain management.
Management
The Management and Human Resources Department is home to the Management Major and the Human Resource Management Major. Read below and explore our website to learn more about these two Major options, our award-winning student clubs, and our outstanding faculty!
Interactive Web Management
Interactive Web Management (IWM) is an emerging field of academic study designed to prepare you for tomorrow’s careers.
UW Oshkosh interactive Web management (IWM) graduates are technologically savvy and know how to leverage the best online practices, including social media, to give their employers a competitive edge in the marketplace or start their own high-technology businesses.
The IWM degree is broad-based and interdisciplinary blending facets of business, technology, and media creation in the web and technology fields. This broad base of knowledge allows IWM graduates to take on a range of roles in areas such as web design, web development, social media management, e-commerce, writing for new media forms, search engine optimization, search engine analytics, user experience (UX) design, and digital marketing.
Information Systems
Information technologies have increasingly become woven in the fabric of the operational objectives of businesses and organizations creating a demand for skilled individuals who can think in terms of the company’s business, technology and organizational or “people” strategies in a way that ensures each is aligned with and supports each other. Students looking to enter a dynamic career field with a wide variety of employment opportunities should explore a major in Information Systems.
College of Business students are required to complete an internship prior to graduation earning them real world experience. Currently there are more IS internships available than there are students available to fill them.
Chemistry
The UW Oshkosh Department of Chemistry offers American Chemical Society-certified bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and biochemistry, as well as chemistry with an emphasis in biomolecular science (for those interested in medical fields), and chemistry–secondary education.
Physics & Astronomy
We are dedicated to quality teaching in the classroom and in the laboratory. We also pride ourselves on the individual attention we give to our students. Upper-level physics courses typically enroll between 10-15 students.
International Studies
A degree in international studies provides you with the skills and knowledge to deeply engage with contemporary global issues. Because of its interdisciplinary nature, the International Studies Program is a perfect fit for students who want to explore complex, global problems and opportunities from multiple, critical perspectives. As an international studies major, you can become a leader in creating global solutions and navigating diverse places.
College of Letters and Science
Mission: The College of Letters and Science provides a broad-based education that challenges students to explore a wide spectrum of knowledge about the human experience and the natural world, to enhance their skills of communication, critical thinking and problem solving, to understand and bridge cultural difference, and discover their own capacities for creative expression.
Through a broad array of courses and programs in the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences, the COLS equips students for specific careers while also preparing them to be responsible citizens who understand and contribute to the complex and changing world in which they live.
COLS strongly supports faculty, staff, and students in their research and creative activities, in addition to fostering collaborative opportunities for wider community engagement at the university and beyond.
Professional Counseling
UW Oshkosh Professional Counseling programs are designed to be comprehensive and experiential in nature while focusing on the development of evidence-based counseling practice in a variety of settings and with clients from culturally diverse backgrounds.
Our caring faculty and staff are committed to training counselors as advocates with a strong social justice foundation. We are dedicated to developing proficient and reflective counseling leaders and practitioners through innovative teaching, research and scholarly activity, service learning, and community engagement.
Graduates of the program obtain a Master of Science in Education degree with an emphasis featuring opportunities for service learning, study abroad, and community partnerships. Students in the program experience a rigorous curriculum that emphasizes experiential, hands-on learning supported by supervision and mentoring.
Human Services
Human services leadership (HSL) is an integrative and empowering area of study. Through professional internships and interactive class sessions, students in the HSL program become well-rounded leaders of social change. HSL graduates advocate for individuals, families and communities that are experiencing personal, social or environmental issues. This degree prepares students for personally and professionally rewarding career paths.
Biology
The UW Oshkosh biology department has faculty with expertise in areas of biology from ichthyology to immunology, from parasitology to proteomics, from mycology to medical bacteriology.
Kinesiology/Athletic Training
The Exercise and Sport Science major utilizes a strong scientific base and experiential learning components for students interested in the field of Kinesiology, including careers in fitness, health, and wellness.
Geology
Geology is the science of the whole Earth system including earthquakes, volcanoes, resources, life, environment, and climate. Geologists are curious and love to be outside. The Geology Department at UW Oshkosh focuses on undergraduate education in geology, and is focused on field experiences. Are you interested in the Earth, its environment, and its climate? Do you like to be outdoors? If so, geology is for you!