Program Overview

New Mexico State University Las Cruces Catalog

The New Mexico State University Las Cruces Catalog provides information on the university's academic programs, policies, and procedures.

Academic Programs

New Mexico State University offers a wide range of academic programs, including:

• Bachelor's Degrees: The university offers bachelor's degrees in various fields, including agriculture, arts, business, education, engineering, health sciences, and social sciences.
• Master's Degrees: The university offers master's degrees in various fields, including accountancy, aerospace engineering, anthropology, applied statistics, art, astronomy, athletic training, bioinformatics, biology, business administration, and more.
• Doctoral Degrees: The university offers doctoral degrees in various fields, including aerospace engineering, animal science, applied and agricultural biology, applied statistics, astronomy, biology, business administration, chemistry, and more.
• Specialist Degrees: The university offers specialist degrees in reading and school psychology.
• Graduate Certificates: The university offers graduate certificates in various fields, including autism and spectrum disorders, bilingual education, borderlands and ethnic studies, cultural resource management, digital communications, and more.
• Graduate Minors: The university offers graduate minors in various fields, including advanced manufacturing, agricultural and extension education, animal science, anthropology, applied statistics, and more.

College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences

The College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences offers various academic programs, including:

• Agricultural and Extension Education: The department offers bachelor's degrees in agricultural and extension education, with options in agricultural communications, agricultural education teaching, and agricultural extension/development.
• Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business: The department offers bachelor's degrees in agricultural economics and agricultural business, with options in agricultural business management and natural resource economics.
• Animal and Range Sciences: The department offers bachelor's degrees in animal science and range science, with options in animal industry, science, and range science.
• Entomology, Plant Pathology, and Weed Science: The department offers bachelor's degrees in agricultural biology, with options in applied biology, applied microbiology, entomology, environmental biology, and invasive pest biology and management.
• Family and Consumer Sciences: The department offers bachelor's degrees in family and consumer sciences education, fashion merchandising and design, food science and technology, and human nutrition and dietetic sciences.
• Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Ecology: The department offers bachelor's degrees in conservation ecology, fisheries and wildlife science, and wildlife science.
• Plant and Environmental Sciences: The department offers bachelor's degrees in agronomy, environmental science, genetics and biotechnology, horticulture, and soil science.
• School of Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management: The school offers bachelor's degrees in hotel, restaurant, and tourism management.

College of Arts and Sciences

The College of Arts and Sciences offers various academic programs, including:

• Aerospace Studies: The department offers undergraduate minors in aerospace studies.
• Anthropology: The department offers bachelor's degrees in anthropology, with options in culture and language, and undergraduate minors in anthropology, archaeology, medical anthropology, and sustainability.
• Art: The department offers bachelor's degrees in art, with options in art history, studio art, and museum conservation, and undergraduate minors in art, art history, and museum conservation.
• Astronomy: The department offers undergraduate minors in astronomy.
• Biology: The department offers bachelor's degrees in biology, with options in secondary education, conservation ecology, genetics and biotechnology, microbiology, and undergraduate minors in biology, conservation ecology, genetics and biotechnology, human biology, and microbiology.
• Chemistry and Biochemistry: The department offers bachelor's degrees in biochemistry, chemistry, and undergraduate minors in biochemistry and chemistry.
• Communication Studies: The department offers bachelor's degrees in communication studies and undergraduate minors in communication studies.
• Computer Science: The department offers bachelor's degrees in computer science, with options in algorithm theory, artificial intelligence, big data and data science, computer networking, cybersecurity, human-computer interaction, and software development, and undergraduate minors in algorithm theory, bioinformatics, computer systems, and software development.
• Creative Media: The department offers bachelor's degrees in animation and visual effects, digital film making, and undergraduate minors in animation and visual effects, creative writing, and digital film making.
• Criminal Justice: The department offers bachelor's degrees in criminal justice and undergraduate minors in forensic science, human rights, and law and society.
• Economics, Applied Statistics, and International Business: The department offers bachelor's degrees in economics, with options in energy economics, and undergraduate minors in economics and international business.
• English: The department offers bachelor's degrees in English, with options in creative writing, English, literature, language and culture, and rhetoric, digital media, and professional communication, and undergraduate minors in English, gender and sexuality studies, literature, medieval and early modern studies, and rhetoric and professional communication.
• Geography and Environmental Studies: The department offers bachelor's degrees in geography, with options in environmental studies and geographic information science and technology, and undergraduate minors in geographic information systems and geography.
• Geological Sciences: The department offers bachelor's degrees in geology, with options in earth and environmental sciences, earth science education, and geological sciences, and undergraduate minors in geology.
• Government: The department offers bachelor's degrees in political science and undergraduate minors in American government and politics, comparative politics, international relations, political science, political theory, public administration, and public law.
• History: The department offers bachelor's degrees in history and undergraduate minors in history.
• Individualized Studies: The department offers bachelor's degrees in individualized studies and bachelor's degrees in individualized studies with a pre-pharmacy option.
• Journalism and Media Studies: The department offers bachelor's degrees in journalism and media studies and undergraduate minors in journalism and media studies, social media management, and strategic communication.
• Languages and Linguistics: The department offers bachelor's degrees in foreign languages, with options in French, German, and Spanish, and undergraduate minors in East Asian studies, French, German, international studies, linguistics, and Spanish.
• Mathematical Sciences: The department offers bachelor's degrees in mathematics, with options in actuarial science and insurance, applied mathematics, foundations, general mathematics, probability and statistics, and secondary mathematics education, and undergraduate minors in mathematics.
• Military Science: The department offers undergraduate minors in military science.
• Molecular Biology and Interdisciplinary Life Sciences: The department offers undergraduate minors in molecular biology.
• Music: The department offers bachelor's degrees in music, with options in instrumental performance, piano performance, and vocal performance, and undergraduate minors in music.
• Philosophy: The department offers bachelor's degrees in philosophy, with options in justice, political philosophy, and law, and undergraduate minors in ethics, justice, political philosophy, and law, and philosophy.
• Physics: The department offers bachelor's degrees in physics and undergraduate minors in physics.
• Psychology: The department offers bachelor's degrees in psychology and undergraduate minors in psychology.
• Theatre Arts: The department offers bachelor's degrees in theatre arts, with options in design/technical/management, musical theatre, and undergraduate minors in theatre arts.

College of Business

The College of Business offers various academic programs, including:

• Accounting and Information Systems: The department offers bachelor's degrees in accounting and information systems, with options in accounting and enterprise systems, and undergraduate minors in accounting and enterprise systems.
• Business Administration: The department offers bachelor's degrees in business administration, with options in general business, international business, and undergraduate minors in business administration.
• Economics, Applied Statistics, and International Business: The department offers bachelor's degrees in economics, with options in energy economics, and undergraduate minors in economics and international business.
• Finance: The department offers bachelor's degrees in finance, with options in banking and financial planning, entrepreneurial finance, financial analyst, and risk management and insurance, and undergraduate minors in business law, entrepreneurship, finance, and risk management and insurance.
• Management: The department offers bachelor's degrees in management, with options in general business, human resource management, project and supply chain management, and small business management and entrepreneurship, and undergraduate minors in management.
• Marketing: The department offers bachelor's degrees in marketing, with options in advertising, PGA golf management, professional selling, and strategic marketing, and undergraduate minors in advertising, marketing, and professional selling.

College of Engineering

The College of Engineering offers various academic programs, including:

• Chemical and Materials Engineering: The department offers bachelor's degrees in chemical engineering and undergraduate minors in biomedical engineering, brewery engineering, computational engineering, materials engineering, nuclear chemical engineering, and pre-law in intellectual property.
• Civil Engineering: The department offers bachelor's degrees in civil engineering and undergraduate minors in agricultural engineering, environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, and water resource engineering.
• Electrical and Computer Engineering: The department offers bachelor's degrees in computer engineering, electrical engineering, with options in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science, communications and signal processing, computers and microelectronics, controls and robotics, electromagnetics and photonics, power, and space systems, and undergraduate minors in computer engineering and electrical engineering.
• Engineering Physics: The department offers bachelor's degrees in engineering physics, with options in aerospace, chemical, electrical, and mechanical.
• Engineering Technology and Surveying Engineering: The department offers bachelor's degrees in civil engineering technology, electronics and computer engineering technology, geomatics, information and communication technology, and mechanical engineering technology, and undergraduate minors in computer engineering technology, digital forensics, geomatics, information security technology, manufacturing, and renewable energy technologies.
• Industrial Engineering: The department offers bachelor's degrees in industrial engineering and undergraduate minors in entrepreneurship, lean manufacturing and analytics, supply chain and operations research analytics, and systems engineering.
• Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering: The department offers bachelor's degrees in aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering, and undergraduate minors in aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering.

College of Health, Education, and Social Transformation

The College of Health, Education, and Social Transformation offers various academic programs, including:

• Borderlands and Ethnic Studies: The department offers undergraduate minors in borderland and ethnic studies, Chicana/o studies, and Native American studies, and graduate minors in decolonial research.
• Communication Disorders: The department offers bachelor's degrees in communication disorders and undergraduate minors in American sign language.
• Counseling and Educational Psychology: The department offers bachelor's degrees in counseling and community psychology and undergraduate minors in counseling and educational psychology.
• Kinesiology: The department offers bachelor's degrees in dance, kinesiology, with options in exercise science, performance psychology, physical education, and undergraduate minors in dance, exercise science.
• Nursing: The department offers bachelor's degrees in nursing, master's degrees in nursing leadership and administration, and doctoral degrees in nursing practice.
• Public Health Sciences: The department offers bachelor's degrees in public health and undergraduate minors in gerontology, public health, and U.S.-Mexico border health issues.
• School of Teacher Preparation, Administration, and Leadership (TPAL): The school offers bachelor's degrees in applied studies, early childhood education, elementary education, secondary education, and special education, and undergraduate minors in Africana studies, early childhood education, educational leadership and administration, and secondary education.
• Social Work: The department offers bachelor's degrees in social work.
• Sociology: The department offers bachelor's degrees in sociology and undergraduate minors in sociology.

ELAD - Educational Leadership Administration

The ELAD department offers various academic programs, including:

• ELAD 2210: Leadership and Change in Education: This course introduces students to the challenges and key strategies in initiating, implementing, and sustaining educational change and reform.
• ELAD 2340: Multicultural Leadership in Education: This course introduces students to the social and cultural constructions of gender, class, and race, and how to apply theoretical constructs to everyday life and discuss the intersection of gender and race with class inequality.
• ELAD 2996: Special Topics in Educational Leadership: This course is a special topics course in education for undergraduate students, with a subtitle indicating the subject matter covered.
• ELAD 3110V: Introduction to Educational Leadership in a Global Society: This course provides an overview of multinational educational systems, with a focus on the U.S. system of education and the role of school-site leaders.
• ELAD 3210: Current Issues in Educational Leadership: This course addresses current issues in educational leadership, including the rise of international education, education's costs, social media's role and influence, and changes in state and national funding trends.
• ELAD 3996: Special Topics in Education: This course is a special topics course in education for undergraduate students, with a subtitle indicating the subject matter covered.
• ELAD 4110: Management of Student Services: This course provides an overview of student services, including admissions, counseling, registration, financial aid, housing, food services, and student organizations.
• ELAD 4120: Principles of Education Law and Policy: This course provides an overview of the legal processes of education, major court decisions, and the legislative process.
• ELAD 4130: Principles of Education Budgeting and Finance: This course provides an analysis of budget and finance practices in education.
• ELAD 4410: Foundation for School Library Specialists: This course provides an introduction to the history, purpose, and role of the school library.
• ELAD 4420: Administration of the School Library: This course provides an overview of the principles and practices related to the function, structure, and management of school libraries.
• ELAD 4510: Elements of Research: This course provides an introduction to educational research, including research paradigms and the symbiosis of theory and practice.
• ELAD 4998: Internship: This course provides an internship experience for undergraduate students, with a focus on applying theoretical concepts to practice.
• ELAD 5110: The Principalship: This course provides an overview of the key issues surrounding the role of school-site leaders.
• ELAD 5120: Leadership and Administration of Bilingual Education: This course provides an introduction to the concepts and practical approaches to improving the education of English language learners.
• ELAD 5130: Basing Decision on Data: Pk-12: This course provides an analysis of accountability data and other evidence to support educational decision making.
• ELAD 5140: Educational Financial Management: This course provides an overview of educational finance and business applications.
• ELAD 5150: Public School Law: This course provides an overview of the legal processes of education, major court decisions, and the legislative process.
• ELAD 5160: Management of Educational Change: Public Schools: This course provides an overview of leadership in implementing innovations in education.
• ELAD 5170: Special Education Administration: This course provides an overview of the competencies for the administration of special education programs.
• ELAD 5180: Internship: Public Schools Part I: This course provides a practical internship experience in a Pk-12 administrative setting.
• ELAD 5185: Internship: Public Schools Part II: This course provides a continuation of the internship experience in a Pk-12 administrative setting.
• ELAD 5210: Community College Administration: This course provides an overview of the history, role, objectives, and patterns governing the effectiveness of the community college.
• ELAD 5215: Higher Education Administration: This course provides an overview of higher education in the United States, including history, mission, and governance.
• ELAD 5220: Management of Educational Change: Higher Education: This course provides an overview of leadership in implementing innovations in education in higher education.
• ELAD 5230: Higher Education Finance and Funding: This course provides an examination of the impact and process of financing and funding higher education.
• ELAD 5240: Management of Student Services in Higher Education: This course provides an overview of student services in higher education, including admissions, counseling, registration, financial aid, housing, food services, and student organizations.
• ELAD 5250: Higher Education Law: This course provides an overview of the legal processes of higher education, including the impact of the judiciary on higher education.
• ELAD 5260: Administration of Adult and Continuing Education: This course provides an overview of the administration of programs in public schools, higher education, community, and nontraditional educational settings.
• ELAD 5270: Basing Decision on Data: Higher Education: This course provides an analysis of accountability data and other evidence to support educational decision making in higher education.
• ELAD 5280: Internship: Higher Education Part I: This course provides a practical internship experience in a higher education administrative setting.
• ELAD 5285: Internship: Higher Education Part II: This course provides a continuation of the internship experience in a higher education administrative setting.
• ELAD 5310: Leadership for Social Justice and Equity: This course provides an examination of cultural diversity and how to apply theoretical constructs to everyday life and discuss the intersection of gender and race with class inequality.
• ELAD 5320: Educational Leadership, Supervision, and Evaluation: This course provides an overview of leadership, supervision, and evaluation in Pk-12 and postsecondary education.
• ELAD 5410: Foundation for School Library Specialists: This course provides an introduction to the history, purpose, and role of the school library.
• ELAD 5510: Elements of Research: This course provides a survey and analysis of research methods and designs, focusing on sound educational research and its presentation.
• ELAD 5992: Special Problems: This course is offered under various subtitles, indicating the subject matter covered.
• ELAD 5996: Special Topics: This course is offered under various subtitles, indicating the subject matter covered.
• ELAD 5997: Independent Studies: This course provides individual investigation in special topic areas, requiring prior approval of a project advisor.
• ELAD 6110: Organizational Theory: This course provides an overview of organizational theory, with a focus on educational organizations.
• ELAD 6120: Elements of Research: This course provides an advanced survey and analysis of research methods and designs, focusing on sound educational research and its presentation.
• ELAD 6210: Quantitative Research I: This course provides an exploration of quantitative research methods and models, with an application in the field of educational leadership.
• ELAD 6220: Qualitative Research I: This course provides an exploration of qualitative research methods and models, with an application in the field of educational leadership.
• ELAD 6310: Concepts of Leadership in Education: This course provides a survey of concepts of leadership in general and educational leadership in particular.
• ELAD 6320: Foundations of Educational Administration: This course provides an advanced course about the political, economic, and social forces on policy making and governance of Pk-12 and postsecondary education.
• ELAD 6410: Quantitative Research II: This course provides an intermediate quantitative methods of research, statistical analyses, and their application in the field of educational leadership.
• ELAD 6510: Qualitative Research II: This course provides an advanced qualitative methods of research and implementation in the field of educational leadership.
• ELAD 6520: Public School Law: This course provides an advanced course in which the legal processes of education, major court decisions, and the legislative process will be studied.
• ELAD 6525: Higher Education Law: This course provides an advanced course designed to review the impact of the judiciary on higher education.
• ELAD 6610: Scholarly Writing and the Southwest Border: This course provides an opportunity for doctoral-level students to engage with scholarly and academic writing in a meaningful manner, with a focus on the Southwest Border and Borderland issues.
• ELAD 6620: Evaluation Design in Education: This course provides an advanced course that focuses on evaluation and accountability models, with an application to educational programs.
• ELAD 6630: Educational Financial Management: This course provides an advanced course that offers an overview of economic and financial concerns relating to the public school system of the United States.
• ELAD 6635: Higher Education Finance and Funding: This course provides an advanced course that examines the impact and process of financing and funding higher education.
• ELAD 6710: The Professoriate: This course provides an exploration of the body of scholarly knowledge and research appropriate for the study of American higher education, the context in which teaching and learning occurs, and faculty's roles in the process.
• ELAD 6910: Dissertation Seminar: This course provides a seminar for doctoral students, with a focus on formulating a research purpose and driving question about a specific topic.
• ELAD 6991: Doctoral Research: This course provides research opportunities for doctoral students, with a focus on submitting a pre-proposal, proposal, and final copy of the dissertation for committee consideration.
• ELAD 6996: Selected Topics: This course is offered under various subtitles, indicating the subject matter covered.
• ELAD 6998: Advanced Internship: This course provides an internship experience for advanced degree students, with a focus on meeting the field work requirement.
• ELAD 7000: Doctoral Dissertation: This course provides an opportunity for doctoral students to complete their dissertation, with a minimum of 3 credits per regular semester.