Program Overview

Northwestern University Programs

Undergraduate Programs

• Biological Sciences: Offers a BSGS degree in Biological Sciences.
• Communication Studies: Offers a BPhil Com degree in Communication Studies.
• Economics: Offers BPhil and BSGS degrees in Economics.
• English: Writing: Offers BPhil and BSGS degrees in English: Writing.
• Enterprise Leadership: Offers a BS degree in Enterprise Leadership.
• Health Sciences: Offers a BS degree in Health Sciences.
• Humanities: Offers BPhil and BSGS degrees in Humanities.
• Information Systems: Offers BPhil, BS, and BSGS degrees in Information Systems.
• Organization Behavior: Offers BPhil and BSGS degrees in Organization Behavior.
• Psychology: Offers BPhil and BSGS degrees in Psychology.
• Social Sciences: Offers BPhil, BS, and BSGS degrees in Social Sciences.
• Strategic Communication: Offers a BS degree in Strategic Communication.

Graduate Programs

• Data Science: Offers MS degrees in Data Science with various specializations, including Analytics and Modeling, Analytics Management, Artificial Intelligence, Data Engineering, and Technology Entrepreneurship.
• Global Health: Offers an MS degree in Global Health.
• Health Analytics: Offers an MS degree in Health Analytics.
• Healthcare Administration: Offers an MS degree in Healthcare Administration.
• Health Informatics: Offers MS degrees in Health Informatics with specializations in Clinical Informatics, Health Administration Informatics, and Health Technology Informatics.
• Information Design and Strategy: Offers MS degrees in Information Design and Strategy with specializations in Communication with Data, Content Strategy, Learning Design, and UX/UI.
• Information Systems: Offers MS degrees in Information Systems with specializations in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Database and Internet Technologies, Digital Transformation, Health Informatics, Information Systems Management, Information Systems Security, and Project Management.
• Liberal Studies: Offers MA degrees in Liberal Studies with an Interdisciplinary Studies specialization.
• Literature: Offers MA degrees in Literature with specializations in American Literature, British Literature, Comparative and World Literature, Film, Literature, and Visual Culture, and Interdisciplinary Studies.
• Prose and Poetry: Offers MFA degrees in Prose and Poetry with specializations in Dual-Genre, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Publishing and Professional Development.
• Public Policy and Administration: Offers MA degrees in Public Policy and Administration with specializations in Data Analytics for Public Policy, Global Health, Global Policy, Public Administration, and Public Policy.
• Regulatory Compliance: Offers MS degrees in Regulatory Compliance with specializations in Clinical Research and Quality Systems.
• Sports Administration: Offers MA degrees in Sports Administration with specializations in College Sports Management and Sports Analytics.
• Writing: Offers MA degrees in Writing with specializations in Dual-Genre, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Publishing and Professional Development.

Certificates

• Post-Baccalaureate Certificates:
  • Advanced Accounting
  • Advanced Studies in Biology for Health Professions
  • Advanced Studies in Psychology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Biology for Health Sciences
  • Business Essentials
  • Business Writing/Communication
  • Change Management
  • Corporate Communication and Branding
  • CPA Accounting
  • Creative Writing
  • Data Science
  • Digital Content Management
  • Fundamentals of Accounting
  • Health, Science and Society
  • Human Resources
  • Law and Policy
  • Leadership
  • Math for Data Science
  • Pre-Clinical Psychology
  • Pre-Graduate Business Administration
  • Pre-Medicine
  • Pre-Physical Therapy
  • Pre-Physician Assistant
  • Programming
  • Public Health
  • Research and Analytics
  • Social Justice
  • Specialized Studies
  • Strategic Communication
  • Strategic Management
  • Strategic Marketing
  • Writing for Print and Digital Media
• Graduate Certificates:
  • Data Science: Analytics and Modeling, Analytics Management, Artificial Intelligence, Data Engineering, and Technology Entrepreneurship
  • Global Health: Global Health Leadership
  • Health Analytics: Health Analytics, Health Data Science
  • Health Informatics: Health Informatics, Interdisciplinary Studies in Health Informatics
  • Healthcare Industry: Healthcare Industry
  • Information Design and Strategy: Communication with Data, Content Strategy, Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Design and Strategy, Learning Design, UX/UI
  • Information Systems: Database & Internet Technologies, Information Systems Management, Information Systems Security, Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Systems, Project Management
  • Liberal Studies: Interdisciplinary Studies
  • Literature: Interdisciplinary Studies, Literature
  • Predictive Analytics: Data Science
  • Public Policy and Administration: Climate Change Communication, Global Policy, Policy Analysis, Public Administration, Public Policy, Public Policy and Administration
  • Regulatory Compliance: Interdisciplinary Studies in Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Compliance
  • Regulatory Policy & Health Systems: Regulatory Policy and Health Systems
  • Sports Administration: College Sports Management, Esports, Interdisciplinary Studies in Sports Administration, Sports Analytics, Sports Communication, Sports Management
  • Writing: Creative Writing, Interdisciplinary Studies in Writing, Publishing and Professional Development in Writing

School of Education and Social Policy

• Elementary Teaching: Offers a major in Elementary Teaching.
• Human Development in Context: Offers a major in Human Development in Context.
• Learning and Organizational Change: Offers a major in Learning and Organizational Change.
• Learning Sciences: Offers a major in Learning Sciences.
• Secondary Teaching: Offers a major in Secondary Teaching.
• Social Policy: Offers a major in Social Policy.
• Experiential Learning: Offers experiential learning opportunities.
• Civic Engagement Certificate: Offers a certificate in Civic Engagement.

Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

• Applied Mathematics: Offers a degree in Applied Mathematics.
• Architectural Engineering and Design: Offers a degree in Architectural Engineering and Design.
• Artificial Intelligence: Offers a minor in Artificial Intelligence.
• Biomedical Engineering: Offers a degree in Biomedical Engineering.
• Chemical Engineering: Offers a degree in Chemical Engineering.
• Civil and Environmental Engineering: Offers degrees in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering.
• Computer Engineering: Offers a degree in Computer Engineering.
• Computer Science: Offers a degree in Computer Science.
• Curious Life Certificate: Offers a certificate in Curious Life.
• Design Engineering (Engineering Design): Offers a degree in Design Engineering.
• Electrical and Computer Engineering: Offers degrees in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering.
• Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics: Offers a degree in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics.
• Environmental Engineering: Offers a degree in Environmental Engineering.
• Farley Center for Entrepreneurship: Offers a minor in Entrepreneurship.
• General Engineering: Offers a degree in General Engineering.
• Human Computer Interaction: Offers a certificate in Human Computer Interaction.
• Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences: Offers a degree in Industrial Engineering.
• Machine Learning and Data Science: Offers a minor in Machine Learning and Data Science.
• Materials Science and Engineering: Offers a degree in Materials Science and Engineering.
• Mechanical Engineering: Offers a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Segal Design Institute: Offers a degree in Manufacturing and Design Engineering and a certificate in Segal Design.
• Robotics: Offers a degree in Robotics.

Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications

• Integrated Marketing Communications: Offers a certificate in Integrated Marketing Communications.
• Journalism: Offers a degree in Journalism.

Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

• Advanced Expression: Offers a program in Advanced Expression.
• African Studies: Offers a major and minor in African Studies.
• American Studies: Offers a major in American Studies.
• Anthropology: Offers a major and minor in Anthropology.
• Arabic: Offers a program in Arabic.
• Art History: Offers a major and minor in Art History.
• Art Theory and Practice: Offers a major and minor in Art Theory and Practice.
• Asian American Studies: Offers a major and minor in Asian American Studies.
• Asian Languages and Cultures: Offers a major and minor in Asian Languages and Cultures.
• Astronomy: Offers a program in Astronomy.
• Biological Sciences: Offers a major in Biological Sciences.
• Black Studies: Offers a major and minor in Black Studies.
• Business Institutions: Offers a minor in Business Institutions.
• Catholic Studies: Offers a program in Catholic Studies.
• Chemistry: Offers a major and minor in Chemistry.
• Chicago Field Studies: Offers a program in Chicago Field Studies.
• Chinese: Offers a program in Chinese.
• Classics: Offers a major and minor in Classics.
• Cognitive Science: Offers a major and minor in Cognitive Science.
• Comparative Literary Studies: Offers a major and minor in Comparative Literary Studies.
• Computer Science: Offers a major and minor in Computer Science.
• Critical Theory: Offers a minor in Critical Theory.
• Data Science: Offers a program in Data Science.
• Earth and Planetary Sciences: Offers a major and minor in Earth and Planetary Sciences.
• Economics: Offers a major and minor in Economics.
• Empirical and Deductive Reasoning: Offers a program in Empirical and Deductive Reasoning.
• English: Offers a major and minor in English.
• Environmental Policy and Culture: Offers a major and minor in Environmental Policy and Culture.
• Environmental Sciences: Offers a major in Environmental Sciences.
• Ethics and Civic Life: Offers a program in Ethics and Civic Life.
• French and Italian: Offers a major and minor in French and Italian.
• Gender and Sexuality Studies: Offers a major and minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
• General Liberal Arts: Offers a program in General Liberal Arts.
• German: Offers a major and minor in German.
• Global Health Studies: Offers a major and minor in Global Health Studies.
• Greek: Offers a program in Greek.
• Hebrew: Offers a program in Hebrew.
• Hindi: Offers a program in Hindi.
• Historical Studies: Offers a program in Historical Studies.
• History: Offers a major and minor in History.
• Humanities: Offers a program in Humanities.
• Integrated Science: Offers a major in Integrated Science.
• International Studies: Offers a major and minor in International Studies.
• Italian: Offers a program in Italian.
• Japanese: Offers a program in Japanese.
• Jewish Studies: Offers a major and minor in Jewish Studies.
• Korean: Offers a program in Korean.
• Latin: Offers a program in Latin.
• Latin American and Caribbean Studies: Offers a minor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
• Latina and Latino Studies: Offers a major and minor in Latina and Latino Studies.
• Legal Studies: Offers a major and minor in Legal Studies.
• Linguistics: Offers a major and minor in Linguistics.
• Literature and Arts: Offers a program in Literature and Arts.
• Materials Science: Offers a minor in Materials Science.
• Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences: Offers a major in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences.
• Mathematics: Offers a major and minor in Mathematics.
• Middle East and North African Languages: Offers a minor in Middle East and North African Languages.
• Middle East and North African Studies: Offers a major and minor in Middle East and North African Studies.
• Molecular Biosciences: Offers a program in Molecular Biosciences.
• Native American and Indigenous Studies: Offers a minor in Native American and Indigenous Studies.
• Natural Sciences: Offers a program in Natural Sciences.
• Neurobiology: Offers a major in Neurobiology.
• Neuroscience: Offers a major in Neuroscience.
• Perspectives on Power, Justice, and Equity: Offers a program in Perspectives on Power, Justice, and Equity.
• Philosophy: Offers a major and minor in Philosophy.
• Physics and Astronomy: Offers a major and minor in Physics and Astronomy.
• Political Science: Offers a major and minor in Political Science.
• Portuguese: Offers a program in Portuguese.
• Psychology: Offers a major and minor in Psychology.
• Religious Studies: Offers a major and minor in Religious Studies.
• Russian: Offers a program in Russian.
• Science in Human Culture: Offers a major and minor in Science in Human Culture.
• Slavic Languages and Literatures: Offers a major and minor in Slavic Languages and Literatures.
• Social and Behavioral Sciences: Offers a program in Social and Behavioral Sciences.
• Sociology: Offers a major and minor in Sociology.
• Spanish & Portuguese: Offers a major and minor in Spanish & Portuguese.
• Statistics and Data Science: Offers a major and minor in Statistics and Data Science.
• Swahili: Offers a program in Swahili.
• Turkish: Offers a program in Turkish.
• Urdu: Offers a program in Urdu.
• Writing Program: Offers a program in Writing Program.

Civic Engagement Certificate

The Civic Engagement Certificate prepares motivated students to make a positive impact in their communities by organizing and mobilizing to implement policy. The certificate includes three courses:

• SESP 195-1 Civic Engagement 1: Participatory Policymaking: Policy implementation involves more than just identifying and researching options, policymakers must consider design program design, costs & sustainability; political feasibility, and building political support. In this class, students learn how to design policy for implementation through Northwestern’s Participatory Budgeting process.
• SESP 195-2 Civic Engagement 2: Participatory Budgeting: Democracy gives limited opportunities for citizens to influence decision-making. In this class, students learn to implement open democracy innovations that are more inclusive, more representative, and lead to better policy outcomes, by implementing a campus-wide participatory budgeting process, where the community decides how to spend $1000 to address climate change.
• SESP 195-3 Civic Engagement 3: Organizing, Gathering & Policy implementation: Organizing, gathering & policy implementation for social change. How do we motivate people to take action? In this class, students learn the techniques of relational organizing (canvassing, one-on-ones, public narrative), designing civic gatherings (Civic Saturdays) that move people to action to build social movements. Students will also oversee policy implementation of community development projects selected in the participatory budgeting process.

Students must complete an interest form and interview to be admitted to any of the first-year courses. Students can complete the sequence in any order, as long as they complete all three courses.

The “second year” certificate classes include two quarters:

• SESP 295-1 Leadership Studio I & SESP 295-2 Leadership Studio II: Learning organizing requires building a real organization. Students accepted to the certificate program will further develop their organizing skills by taking a leadership role on the executive board of Open Democracy Northwestern (undergraduate club). Leaders will develop strategy, train club members, manage operations. Leaders will receive weekly coaching from instructors.

Students must apply to earn the civic engagement certificate after completing the SESP 195 coursework and interview with Open Democracy Evanston executive board and course instructor.