Biology Program Profile

The Biology program is designed to meet student interest and to provide experience in the various life science areas. In its curricular offerings, opportunity is provided to examine the structure, functions, interrelationships, and environmental settings of life forms. At the same time, the student is encouraged to develop skills in using and interpreting biological data, to make use of inductive scientific methods, and to integrate understandings with those arrived at from other disciplines. The Biology program provides a flexible program of academic work which may be modified as the student advances in the program. Concordia’s program in Biology provides a useful foundation for a variety of possible career paths as well as for further study at the graduate level, including medical, veterinary, and physical therapy programs.

Business Program Profile

Concordia’s program in Business Administration offers the most important component of any business program-reality. Our students are involved in project management for the Business Club and internships in nearby New York City, the financial center of the world. Concordia students learn to translate theories and knowledge from their classes into informed decision-making. Before entering the business arena, they are involved in courses that address both the people and the practical sides of business. Core classes cover management, marketing, economics, law, finance, accounting, and statistics. Students also learn to prepare for the changing global environment with a solid liberal arts base and a cross-cultural appreciation for other nations and traditions. Above all, Concordia produces principled business professionals that build successful careers while being socially and ethically responsible. Business administration is a four-year program leading to a Bachelor of Science degree.

Program Specialization: International Management

This program was developed in consultation with business leaders with a global perspective and emphasizes the critical thinking and communication skills necessary to succeed in the global environment. The four-year program is structured around three disciplines: business, modern languages, and international studies. English as a Second Language is also offered and internships in nearby Manhattan are part of the degree. Concordia’s proximity to hundreds of international corporate headquarters, our strong academic tradition, and respected business and language programs all combine to prepare students to meet the future management needs of global employers.

Program Specialization: Accounting

Students that perform well in the required accounting courses have the opportunity to pursue a specialized course of study in Accounting, the “grammar” of business. This can provide a depth of knowledge in the discipline that will serve students well as they progress in their managerial careers. Classes include Intermediate Accounting I, Intermediate Accounting II, Cost Accounting, Auditing, plus Financial Analysis and Planning.

Education Program Profile

Concordia’s teacher Education programs, fully accredited by NCATE, include a foundation in liberal arts and a core of education courses, which are enhanced by a strong emphasis on pre-professional field experiences. Teacher education candidates select an area of academic concentration. For candidates in the Early Childhood, Childhood and Middle Childhood Generalist programs, a Liberal Studies concentration is available with a specialization in Art, Social Sciences, Biology, English, Religion, Mathematics, or Social Studies.

Graduates of Concordia’s Teacher Education program qualify academically for an initial New York State Classroom Teaching Certificate and thus are ready to teach in public, private, or parochial schools. Teacher Education candidates who wish to work with younger students in a traditional self-contained classroom may choose Early Childhood (birth-grade 2), Childhood (grades 1-6) or Middle Childhood Generalist (grades 5-9) program.

Lutheran Teacher’s Diploma

In addition to preparing candidates for NYS certification, the program also grants a Lutheran Teacher’s Diploma that certifies teachers to serve in the nationwide Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod school system.

Education Fieldwork Experiences

Field experiences begin during freshman year with a five-day pre-professional practicum during which candidates serve as teachers’ aides in the grade level of their choice. Prior to the student teaching semester, Concordia candidates are required to complete at least 100 additional hours of fieldwork, including experiences with students in high-needs urban settings, students with disabilities, and students with limited English proficiency.

English Program Profile

Every element of the English program at Concordia College-New York is designed to promote strong thinking, writing, and communication skills. Our students become strong communicators and critical thinkers, who are able to synthesize information and make informed, ethical decisions. Consequently, our graduates demonstrate the skills and knowledge necessary for “lives of service,” and they excel in many professions.

Graduates of Concordia’s English program:

• Write Well. Students in the English program write extensively in every course in the program, so their progress is evident in their portfolios. Advanced writing courses are available, and students demonstrate their skills in college publications, internships, and independent studies.
• Are Critical and Ethical Thinkers. From the first core courses, students in the English program are challenged to produce work that requires moral and ethical reasoning. They are expected to analyze, debate, synthesize, and sometimes dramatize texts that foster a global prospective and encourage them to examine their world and themselves.
• Use Their Talents. Concordia’s English program students express themselves fluently. They learn how to use their skills in the ‘real world’ through experiential learning courses and internships.
• Appreciate Literature. Literature in the English program is experienced in breadth in survey courses and in critical depth through specialized topic courses. It is a solid foundation for graduate study but, more importantly, it opens windows into life.

Liberal Studies Program Profile

Many students today have varied interests, talents, and gifts and are often hard-pressed to narrow their college experience into one area of study. The Liberal Studies Program provides students freedom, flexibility, and creativity to design their own program of study by combining two or three areas of study together. Students gain essential skills and knowledge, including self-awareness, technological literacy, global awareness, skillful communication, scientific reasoning, cultural competence, and critical thinking skills. Areas of concentration within the liberal studies program include:

• Art
• Biblical Languages
• English
• History
• Math
• New Media
• Philosophy
• Music
• Psychology
• Religion
• Sociology

Nursing Program Profile

The undergraduate program of study in nursing will prepare you for an exciting career as a professional nurse. The curriculum is fully integrated with the arts and sciences and will provide you with all of the tools you will need to practice in the fast-paced and ever-changing health care system. You will experience health care at the cutting edge as you learn nursing skills in our laboratory and develop hands-on practice in hospitals, nursing homes, mental health and visiting nurse facilities in the Westchester County and New York metropolitan areas. At Concordia, students of nursing have the opportunity to complete their program of study in three-and-a-half years. Classes are small, the faculty, nationally-known, and nursing education is delivered with all the personal touches for which Concordia College-New York is known!

Professional nurses find themselves working wherever there are people. The specializations available to nurses are limitless-from traditional bedside nursing in an acute care hospital to occupational health nursing at Bloomingdale’s. Nurses take care of patients, teach in colleges and universities, and run health care facilities. At Concordia, nursing students get to experience it all-from community hospitals like Lawrence Hospital Center in Bronxville to care facilities like Westchester Medical Center; Visiting Nurse Services of Westchester to mental health services at St. Vincent’s Hospital.

Our Nursing Students Value the Whole Person

Nursing education at Concordia College utilizes knowledge from liberal arts and sciences to provide nurses with a well-rounded educational foundation. We respect high-touch as much as we value high-tech and we are intentional about making sure our graduates value the whole person-their culture, their spirituality, their humanity. Graduates from our program are encouraged to embrace life-long learning and continue their nursing education long after they leave our campus. The nursing curriculum at Concordia College-New York can be completed in three-and-a-half years.

At Concordia, you will begin your educational career with our core curriculum, The Concordia Distinctive-a program that balances technology and communication, relationships and religion, the classics and politics-all integrated to build a strong foundation for further study and growth. Students enjoy the program and professors are energized in teaching this cross- disciplinary curriculum.

Education Outside the Classroom

While completing The Concordia Distinctive, you will work with a faculty advisor to begin developing your Individualized Graduation Plan (IGP). This is a component of The Concordia Experience. This enables you to focus on your Concordia program and select support courses and electives unique to your own educational goals. Each is structured in combination with high-value experiential learning, which encompasses education outside the traditional classroom, including “city as text”, study abroad, service learning, professional internships, and research opportunities.

Social Sciences Program Profile

The Social Sciences program aims to develop a student’s capacity to explore, explain, and interpret both past and present human experience. Through the disciplines of history, international studies, psychology, and sociology, the student will come to better understand and appreciate individuals, society, and the world around us. This interdisciplinary approach creates the framework for understanding the world today by having the student gain insights and knowledge of themselves and other people. More importantly, it enables the student to imagine and empathize with people in a variety of different situations and to grow in knowledge of various peoples and cultures within the global community. Concordia’s program in the Social Sciences is a useful foundation for pursuing various career paths or graduate school opportunities. The program encourages the development of critical thinking, analytical skills, and research and writing capabilities, all of which are needed for the pursuit of advanced degrees.

Social Work Program Profile

Concordia students of Social Work become involved in a way of life that directly touches the lives of others. This CSWE accredited program is thorough and demanding, but meaningful, including a liberal arts core plus course work in psychology, sociology, human behavior, and the social services. Classroom studies take on personal meaning when applied to a full array of fieldwork experiences, working with children, families, the elderly, and the physically and mentally disabled. Every social work student has an opportunity to put in 500 hours in supervised social work settings. We view the world as our classroom-studying with social work professionals in Washington, D.C., Manhattan, New York State, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. In addition, students gain invaluable experience by attending and presenting at social work conferences. Consider these other great reasons to earn your social work degree at Concordia:

Graduates from our CSWE accredited program may complete their Master’s degree in social work in one year at any school that accepts advanced standing. The New York State Social Work Education Association has recognized the incredible caliber of our students by electing three students over the past six years as student of the year! This is from among about 30 undergraduate programs across the state. A specialization is offered in Family Life Ministry, a unique program which is a complement to the social work curriculum specifically for church workers in the LCMS.

Social Work Program Profile

Concordia College admits only a few outstanding students each year to the Fellows (Honors) Program. Academically, you are challenged to stretch your mind and achieve high standards while maintaining a heavy course load. Of course, the Honors Program has its rewards: not only do you get to investigate issues and delve more deeply into subjects, Concordia Fellows receive a $15,000 merit-based scholarship.

Perks of Fellowship

In addition to your normal course load, as a Fellow you will:

Receive individualized program advisement upon entry. Participate in at least four 1-credit Honors Seminars during your college career, as well as a 3-credit Service Learning Project. Be allowed to take up to 21 credits per semester without an overload fee. Attend various colloquia by Concordia faculty and lectures and events in New York City.

What Concordia Fellows Do:

In addition to your normal course load, a Fellow will:

Display their talents on independent projects or articles in Prelude, the annual Fellows journal, like a recent piece on China’s energy industry. Study with mentors who guide, challenge, and inspire. Give something back through service projects, i.e. visiting residents at an adult care facility. Use Manhattan as a classroom, sampling ethnic foods, exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or off-Broadway satires.

Alpha Mu Gamma is the first and largest national collegiate foreign language honor society in the United States.

The Nu Psi Chapter of Alpha Mu Gamma is the National Collegiate Foreign Language Honor Society at Concordia College – New York. Concordia’s chapter is the 336th for this organization, which was founded in 1931. Students may apply for membership if they have attained a 3.00 GPA and two terms of “A” in foreign language study. Possible areas of study include English as a Second Language and American Sign Language.

The International Center for English as a Second Language (ICESL) offers courses in English for non-native speakers of English. The Center’s objective is to meet the needs of both the international students interested in college-level education in the United States and foreign nationals in nearby communities who wish to improve their English language skills. Classes are offered in grammar, reading, writing, listening, and speaking at several levels of proficiency. In all classes, cultural orientation is an important focus.

Concordia’s teacher education programs, fully accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, include a foundation in liberal arts and a core of education courses. In addition to selecting Early Childhood, Childhood, or Middle Childhood Generalist, you may choose to enter the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod teaching ministry serving as a commissioned minister of education and Christian leader dedicated to the exciting and enriching experience of leading and developing young minds and personalities. The Lutheran Teacher Diploma is in addition to the requirements for the appropriate New York State teaching certificate.

The most frequent opportunity for service with the Lutheran Teacher Diploma lies in teaching classes in Lutheran schools. Lutheran teachers, however, have many opportunities to serve today’s youth and the greater church with their unique talents and interests-coordinating youth programs, coaching athletics teams, and taking on administrative roles.