Go beyond majors and minors with immersive fields of study, paths and certificates that capture real-world complexities.
At AV天堂, experience the kind of exceptional interdisciplinary education that prepares you to thrive as an independent, innovative leader. Learn what to expect from .
Examine and illuminate the widest possible range of peoples, experiences, conflicts, artistic expressions, and politics that together produce the complex phenomenon that we call American culture.
Applied Computer Science and Information Technology
Path Evening/Weekend
Learn to take apart and rebuild the world around you. Develop a range of skills in computer science, business, environmental studies, and the social sciences.
Explore today鈥檚 archeological data collection tools to pursue careers in archeology, museum studies, archival and library work, cultural resource management, or public history.
Learn to create and manage innovative for-profit and non-profit social and sustainable enterprises designed to address social and environmental change.
Seek to understand the relationship between human impacts on the Earth and its climate and social inequalities among human communities in order to identify just solutions to the climate crisis.
Learn about interpersonal, intercultural, organizational, and mass communication through multiple writing formats, small seminars, collaborative projects, and class presentations.
Conduct community-based research to learn history, philosophy, and modes of research vital to understanding the needs, challenges, and aims of specific communities.
Find your voice as a writer by mastering creative writing techniques for different genres and learning the professional skills you'll need to succeed in the literary world.
Participate in signature programs that focus on grasslands and wetlands, forests and woodlands, rivers and streams, oceans and estuaries, and urban landscapes.
Study foundations of economic theory and implications for economic policy, and the major debates among economists about the proper role of government and how to best end poverty and other problems.
Explore national, state, and local school policy; theories about learning and cognitive development; observe and engage in classrooms; and learn strategies for working with second language learners.
Deepen your knowledge of Latinx, Latin American, and immigrant communities and gain skills for careers in education through coursework, community-based learning, and study abroad.
El Camino: Latinx Studies, Latin American Studies, and Multilingual Education
Path
Deepen your knowledge of Latinx, Latin American, and immigrant communities and gain skills for careers in education through coursework, community-based learning, and study abroad.
Merge the natural and social sciences. Chart your course to a future in environmental work through hands-on experiences, mentored research, and community outreach work.
Make media about the world to change the world; understand how filmmakers communicate; get hands-on with cameras and mics, software and studios; and collaborate with a community.
Dig deep into all things food. We all eat food. But how is it raised, grown, or foraged, by whom, and at what cost? How do we create a food system that works for all?
Get hands-on to design projects such as a cooperatively-run campus kitchen and pursue internships with community partners including local farms, food cooperatives, and other organizations working for food justice.
Explore the multiple challenges of today鈥檚 globalized, industrial food system, including the growing of food, as well as the network of processors, distributors, markets, and government policy.
Examine how our expectations about gender and sexuality have been shaped by historical, social, scientific, artistic, and cultural contexts across time and place.
Interpret evidence, create narratives, and develop sound arguments to create historical knowledge yourself by doing research and interpreting what you find.
Examine life from atoms to ecosystems. Through lab experiments, field work, hands-on research, and science writing, you鈥檒l gain the full range of skills needed to launch your career as a scientist.
Study language along with the history, literature, and culture of a particular region or country in stand-alone language courses or embedded in full-time programs with other areas of study.
Focus on diverse historical and contemporary experiences of Latinxs that reside in the U.S. and in Latin American Studies, examine cultures and histories of countries south of the Mexico-U.S. border.
Prepare for law school or graduate study in public administration or public policy; analyze and influence public policy; gain skills and knowledge needed for advocacy or policy work.
Fuse the arts of creative and critical writing. Write creatively, read closely, and think critically through the rich resources of language and written expression.
Work in labs to observe the natural world at the interface of land and sea, measure to determine health of environments and organisms, and engage in scientific inquiry of marine habitats.
Build, model, experiment and code. Reason logically and creatively about computational, mathematical, physical and chemical systems. Work with modern computing and research technology.
Encounter mathematical and quantitative reasoning and statistics woven into interdisciplinary studies in science, sociology, psychology, economics, public policy, linguistics and the arts.
Learn about land management, water, soils, plants, wildlife, conservation and restoration through internships, tailored programs, and hands-on experiences.
Pursue philosophical inquiry in connection with history, cultural studies, literature, and the arts to understand philosophical ideas, as well as how those ideas guide people鈥檚 lives.
Collaborate in an inclusive and hands-on approach to physics by working in small groups in labs and workshops to combine theoretical studies with practical applications.
Political Economy, Global Studies, and Environmental Justice
Path
Investigate the vital political, economic, ecological, and social issues of the early 21st century. Learn about their history and development, their present manifestation, and envision alternatives.
Explore the field in its social and historical context including learning about human development, social and community psychology, neuropsychology and cultural diversity.
Explore behavior and consciousness, how people are shaped by societal influences, integrative health practices, tools for community engagement and change, and question what it means to be 鈥渘ormal.鈥
Express your creativity and develop your artistic voice. Deepen your skills across mediums and use your studies to better understand culture, politics, and your community.
Engage in collaborative and independent art studio experiences; combine artistic practice with other fields of study; apply technical art skills to solve real-world problems; and explore new ideas.
