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Accounting

A rapidly changing world necessitates frequent changes in occupations and careers. The future appears promising and stable for those qualified in accounting, management, finance, and office operations. This is true in business, professional, social, educational, religious, health-related fields and personal business venture areas.

It is important for the student majoring in accounting to acquire the necessary technical knowlwedge and business skills related to a particular field of interest. It also is very important to obtain an education involving the successful completion of courses in the various liberal arts areas of the university curriculum.

Accounting majors are placed in both public and private accounting as well as in governmental accounting positions. Some accounting majors will desire and qualify to sit for the C.P.A. examination and will become certified public accountants upon successful completion of the rigorous requirements set by the Board of Accountancy of the State of Kansas.

Agribusiness

Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of the origins, historical and cultural development, variety, distribution, customs, integration into the environment and social relationships of humankind.

Art

Using a studio approach to course study in the visual arts, art majors gain the requisite conceptual and technical skills that encompass the basis of the visual language. With the academic home for the visual arts located within the Liberal Arts curriculum, art majors at Newman take advantage of the entire Liberal Arts faculty in their study of art. Through this broad grounding, the student is trained to give artistic expression to the complexity of human experience and to utilize their unique perspective to comment upon and contribute to betterment of their communities.

Training in technique, exposure to historical perspectives, principles of design, and grounding in diverse media enables Newman visual arts students to develop the heightened sense of aesthetic awareness needed in today’s art and design professions.

Emphasis is placed on nurturing the individual voice as it finds its way within the techniques of the specific artistic discipline.