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Career concentrations
All students expecting to graduate from Northwestern College choose at least one major—maybe two—and perhaps a minor. In addition, a student who already has a fairly clear career plan can pursue a career concentration in one of seven areas, listed below.
A career concentration is a clustering of courses that more directly prepares a student for his or her first job in a given field. For example, a sociology major interested in applying to the FBI after graduation could pursue the criminal justice career concentration, which adds courses like Political Science 225, Introduction to Law, and Psychology 360, Abnormal Psychology, to the major’s sociology requirements.
Northwestern’s career concentrations have been designed with the help of professionals in those careers. Most of the career concentration programs include a senior-year, off-campus internship.
*The discipline in parentheses behind the career concentration identifies the department of the program’s adviser. In some cases, a major in the specified discipline is a requirement of the career concentration. In other cases, one of several majors can support the career concentration.
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