What Kind of Student Benefits from a BIS Degree?
If you need or want a 4-year, bachelor's degree, chances are that our new BIS Degree can help you.Specifically, UNC Pembroke's new BIS degree is designed for a special kind of student------someone who already has a 2-year, Associates degree in either applied arts or applied sciences. We realize that this new degree is not for everyone. More traditional students either get a standard Associates degree or start from scratch on a traditional BA or BS track. Such traditional students start their educations with heavy emphasis on ‘general education' core courses---the mainstay of a typical liberal arts education that ends with a BA or a BS.
With our BIS Degree, we're looking for a different kind of student: one who got a 2-year ‘vocational' degree earlier, but who needs the knowledge, practiced skills and credibility a 4-year full bachelor's degree provides. This kind of student will bring a wealth of Real-world experience to his or her studies and a maturity and sense of purpose often missing in the typical 18 year old freshman in traditional studies.
We incorporate the experience and maturity of students like you into the way we teach, understanding that what you bring to the classroom can contribute mightily to the learning experience for your classmates. To that end, we incorporate lots of actionable, real-life experience of our professors and your own experiences into our classroom teaching. Given that you'll be taking many of the ‘general education' courses that you missed the first time around, we'll help you learn that content in ways that make sense to you. Indeed, that's what we do in all our classes. UNC Pembroke is known as the place ‘where learning gets personal', and it certainly applies to the ways we approach our new BIS Degree.
Tell us what you need in a 4-year degree. We'll try to answer that need.
What kinds of studies will I take with this BIS degree?
This is truly a broad-based degree and you can go in many directions. We call these directions tracks, and here are the kinds of things you can major in:Applied Professional Studies
Advertising, Community Recreation, Economic Development, Health Promotion, International Studies, Office Administration, Theater
Applied Information Technology
Operations Management
Criminal Justice
Forensics, Sociology
Cultural Studies
Spanish
Family Studies
Spanish
Hispanic Commerce
Community Emphasis
Hospitality
Hotel and Restaurant Administration
Public & Non-Profit Administration
Accountancy, Communications, Public Management, Spanish
What Can I Do with My New BIS Degree?
Since the BIS degree is designed for people who already have experience in the work world with a 4-year Bachelor's degree your options should really multiply.You may decide to continue in the field you're currently in, and the degree will give you added information, skills and insight, making it possible to do more, take on more responsibilities. Certainly, the addition of the general education coursework will give you a better-grounded perspective, allowing you to make better use of critical thinking.
You may decide to build on the skills you've acquired in your job and pursue a career different from your current one. You'll start that new career with a 4-year degree, which is often a prerequisite.
You may decide to start your own company, an option that this new BIS degree can make easier.
Whatever you do, the new BIS degree from UNC Pembroke can broaden your opportunities.
What does BIS mean?
The new BIS Degree at UNC Pembroke is a totally new kind of Bachelor's Degree-----in the same category as a Bachelor of Science (BS) or Bachelor of Arts (BA), but with a different focus.
This new degree is designed to confer a full 4-year degree for students
who gained what used to be called a ‘vocational' degree from a 2-year
institution. That degree is now called an Associates Degree in Applied Arts
or Sciences. This is the kind of degree gained by people who basically
wanted to learn a trade or a technical proficiency that could be
directly and immediately translated to an occupation. As such, holders
of these degrees took few general education courses and instead focused
on just the courses they needed to gain their chosen proficiency.
Today, these degree holders may be working in electronics, radio/TV
broadcasting, engineering, health services, paralegal work, culinary
arts, criminal justice, studio arts or occupational therapy, to name a
few fields.BIS stands for Bachelor in Interdisciplinary Studies. While most education is indeed interdisciplinary (cutting across standard educational categories), this degree gives credit toward a full bachelor's degree for courses that aren't usually part of a BA or BS degree. In short, we've created a degree that rewards you for the courses you took when a 4-year degree was the farthest thing from your mind. When you attain this UNC Pembroke degree, you will have completed all the general education degree work required as part of a standard BA or BS plus the course work required to make the most of your vocational work. In the end, you'll have a Bachelor's degree and it will give you the credentials you need or want in your work and personal life.
Kinds of Careers Possible with a BIS Degree
AdvertisingCommunications
Criminal Justice
Economic Development
Entrepreneurial
Hospitality
Information Technology
Office Administration
Operations Management
Non-Profit Administration
Public Administration
How do I get started?
1. The most important thing you can do is to find out if the BIS degree is right for you. The best way to figure that out is to talk to someone in the BIS Program. There are at least three ways to do that:- Call us at 800-9490-UNCP and ask for the BIS Degree Program
- Contact us right now, and someone will contact you, quickly
2. Check out the kinds of majors you can choose 3. Apply to UNC Pembroke.
4. If you decide that the BIS degree is right for you, you will need to work with one of our specially trained BIS advisors to identify and appropriate Major and Track, complete the necessary paperwork to apply for the BIS program, and begin the process of advisement. Email us for more information.
5. Where can I take classes? UNCP, CFCC, and UNC Online.
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