New Forensic Accounting Major, Other Programs to be Offered

The college will expand its liberal arts curriculum starting with the upcoming school year, offering a new major in forensic accounting and six other added minors, licensures and program tracks, and the reorganization of the Department of Sport Studies. In response to student demand, Guilford will also add three majors to its evening degree program.

• A new major in forensic accounting will be available for the first time beginning with the fall 2008 semester. Courses in forensic accounting are in greater demand since the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley reforms in 2002, but Guilford’s major will be the first bachelor’s degree program in forensic accounting in the state. The new major will be offered in both days and evenings.
• The Department of Sport Studies will combine two existing programs – sport medicine and exercise and sport studies – into a single major, exercise and sport sciences. The major will offer two tracks: sports medicine and health and fitness beginning fall 2008. A third track, physical education teacher education, is a completely new program which will meet the needs of students wishing to teach physical education in elementary and secondary schools, pending approval by the state. The department will continue to offer its major in sport management.
• The business management department will offer a new pre-MBA track, which includes courses commonly needed as prerequisites in master’s degree programs. Students enrolled in the Guilford-UNCG Accelerated Bryan MBA program, beginning in fall 2008, will be able to apply MBA courses taken at UNC Greensboro to their undergraduate degree requirements.
• The Center for Continuing Education will offer three additional majors that can be completed entirely through evening courses: the new forensic accounting major; computing management and information technology; and African American studies. For more information, contact the Center for Continuing Education at 316-2179.
• The computing management and information technology program will now be a stand-alone major. The program had previously been designated interdisciplinary, requiring a supplementary major.
• The foreign language department will begin offering the “Spanish in the workplace” minor and certificate program, which will also be available in the evenings.

The education studies department will now offer a licensure in comprehensive secondary science education, which will qualify one to teach science in grades 9-12, pending state approval. The comprehensive program will include the same number of credit hours as the double-major currently required of students in the education department.

May 1, 2008