Online Options
Earn Your Bachelor’s Online!
Online courses never require on-campus orientations, meetings, or tests, so you can take your classes anywhere you can get a good internet connection. Students have taken BLIS courses from such far-flung places as Shanghai, China; Dharamsala, India; Bamberg, Germany; and—of course—North Carolina, from the Smokies to the Outer Banks!
These classes are specifically designed for people who cannot attend regularly-scheduled classes. If you travel for your business, work irregular hours—even the infamous shifts in the emergency services—as long as you have some time to spare at your computer, BLIS courses are compatible with your schedule.
B.A., Liberal & Interdisciplinary Studies
Concentrations
PSYCHOLOGY YOUR WAY
The General Psychology concentration creates an opportunity path for students interested in human services careers, which require psychological knowledge but not necessarily all the specific technical “know-how” of a Psychology BA or BS. The BLIS General Psychology concentration allows these students to tailor psychology class selections to the settings they plan on working in, with a broader research methods class that provides preparation applicable in most workplaces (survey and observational research, rather than laboratory experiments).
TAILORED CURRICULUM
The BLIS General Psychology concentration allows students to choose psychology courses that best prepare them for the settings they plan on working in.
A CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE
This concentration also requires a capstone experience designed to reinforce the knowledge students have gained from an interdisciplinary point of view, preparing them for their careers of interest.
REACH YOUR GOALS
Upon completion of the General Psychology Concentration students will be able to:
- Communicate clearly and effectively in an appropriate professional style.
- Connect learning in the humanities, social sciences, and other fields to their professional lives, emphasizing current research in the field of psychology.
- Think critically and analytically about behavior and mental processes.
- Understand and explain interconnections between psychology and other fields.
STUDY PEOPLE
The Humanities Concentration is designed to provide students with an opportunity to earn their baccalaureate degree online by gaining a thorough understanding of the humanities, the interconnections among them, and their relevance to individuals and to modern society. The humanities are broadly defined to include those disciplines that study people—their ideas, their history, their literature, their artifacts, and their values. The program will investigate individual people in their solitude, life together in societies, and models of and for reality that constitute cultures.
REACH YOUR GOALS
The program is designed to enhance the student’s ability to:
- Think critically and analytically.
- Communicate clearly and effectively.
- Understand and explain interconnections among the Humanities disciplines.
- Appreciate the wide range of human experience.
- Achieve increased depth of knowledge in one of the four categories of the Humanities: Literature, Fine Arts, Philosophy/Religion/Ethics, Historical Perspectives.
HEAR FROM A STUDENT
Veteran Valerie Carter discusses why she decided to pursue a Bachelors Degree in Liberal Studies at UNC Greensboro.
KNOWLEDGE FOR THE WORKPLACE
The Professional Studies Concentration is designed to provide students with an opportunity to earn their baccalaureate degree online by combining course work from the humanities, social sciences, and other fields in a curriculum that emphasizes the skills and knowledge that will be helpful in the workplace.
REACH YOUR GOALS
Upon completing the program, students will be able to:
- Communicate clearly and effectively in an appropriate professional style.
- Read texts with careful attention.
- Think critically and analytically.
- Connect learning in the humanities, social sciences, and other fields to their professional lives.
HEAR FROM A STUDENT
Mother-of-three Grace Jeffries discusses why she decided to pursue a Bachelors Degree in Liberal Studies at UNC Greensboro.
STUDY HUMAN BEHAVIOR
The Social Sciences Concentration is designed to provide students with an opportunity to earn their baccalaureate degree online by gaining a broad-based understanding of the social sciences. The social sciences are the fields of academic scholarship that explore aspects of human behavior and societies.
REACH YOUR GOALS
Upon completing the program, students will be able to:
- Engage theory and practice in the social sciences to better understand human behavior, activities, organizations, and cultures.
- Critically analyze social science related information in the popular media.
- Explain the interconnections, differences, and interdependence among the social sciences.
- Read, evaluate, and interpret research in the social sciences.
- Communicate clearly and effectively in an appropriate professional style.
HEAR FROM A STUDENT
Lindy-Ann Villaroel discusses why she decided to pursue a Bachelors Degree in Liberal Studies at UNC Greensboro.
Explore World Religions
- An internationally renowned group of teaching scholars work closely with students to shape their program of study.
- The program offers a Pre-Divinity Track that prepares students for graduate study in a professional divinity school and career paths in religious non-profits.
THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE
- Complete your degree fully online, with no set class meeting times.
- Develop key skills such as critical thinking, communication, and problem solving.
- Take courses in a variety of disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, fine arts, literature, history, philosophy, religion, and ethics.
“UNCG’s online program was a
life saver during the pandemic.
It allowed me to afford UNCG and
finally made college possible for me.”
– Kendall Garraway
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BLIS Coordinator Can HELP:
- Answer your questions
- Discuss your professional and academic goals
- Review program requirements
- Help you navigate the application process
Matthew J. McKinnon
BLIS Coordinator