As a professional, it’s useful to have a holistic understanding of business. This general studies degree concentration teaches principles and skills you can immediately apply in a range of careers. You will learn how to make critical and ethical business decisions, analyze data, effectively weigh risks and rewards, employ best management and marketing practices, and much more.

Sample courses:

• Introduction to Business
• Management & Organizational Behavior
• Basic Marketing
• Business Ethics

Every industry is impacted by the continually accelerating growth of technology, and students in computer and technology majors are no longer faced with the prospect of only working in narrowly defined technological occupations. This concentration for the BA in interdisciplinary studies provides an introduction to the world of computer science and prepares you for a career as a web designer, information technology consultant, data analyst, system developer, network engineer, software engineer, and game programmer.

Sample courses:

• Introduction to Programming I & II
• Information Systems Theory & Practice
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Introduction to Relational Databases
• The World Wide Web and Scripts

Our Criminology & Justice program reviews the nature of crime and how society manages and deters criminal activity. Studying for your general studies degree in the criminology department, you’ll learn from those with expert theoretical knowledge as well as practical experience in the criminal justice system. Courses cover law enforcement, the courts, corrections, and the private/corporate criminal justice sector.

Sample Courses

• Introduction to Criminal Justice Systems
• Deviant Behavior
• Organized Crime
• Cybercrime, Technology, and Social Change

Loyola’s Department of English offers a diverse curriculum in literature, critical theory, film history, creative writing, nonfiction and professional writing, digital media, linguistics, and rhetoric. Courses provide a strong foundation in classical and contemporary works, with writing style and skills emphasized in every course.

Sample courses:

• Narratives: Illness and Trauma
• Deconstructing Superheroes
• New Orleans Literature
• Cyberpunk & Apocalyptic Literature
• Literature & Videogames

From mobile photography to social engagement, this concentration teaches you how to master communications in our digital world. Prepare to immerse yourself in the tactical skills and strategic knowledge necessary to get ahead of the competition.

Sample Courses

• Digital Communication
• Photography
• Videography
• Journalism

You want to understand how the human mind thinks and learns, and how it processes decisions and perceptions. And you want to use that knowledge to ​help others. Whatever your goals, our program and expert faculty will prepare for success in research, continued study, and a career.​

Sample courses:

• Psychology and the Law
• Science of Good and Evil
• Abnormal Psychology

Religions shape every aspect of life, including political and economic policies, human rights, literature, art, and the environment. Take the opportunity to explore the past, present, and emerging future of these religions. You will examine what people believe, why they believe it, and how their beliefs form private and public lives. You will also study Christianity with particular emphasis on the Catholic tradition in the spirit of Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus.

Sample courses:

• Christian Origins
• Islamophobia and the Media
• Religion, Secularism, and Discrimination
• Heretics and Heresies

If you’re always wondering “why?” and “how?” about issues like social inequality, race, or crime, put your curiosity to work with a concentration in sociology. Sociology is about you and the world you live in—you’ll study people and their activities, their work, their games, relationships, behaviors, beliefs, organizations, problems, and dreams.

Sample courses:

• Sociology of Sport
• Global Sociology
• Race, Racism, & Privilege
• Medical Sociology