Academic
Catalog August 2009 - August 20010 Undergraduate
and Graduate
NAU-Yuma's mission is to extend the reach of Northern Arizona University by providing educational programs, conducting applied research, developing student services, and fostering intellectual, cultural, and scholarship activity in a collaborate manner that meets the university needs of the diverse and growing communities of the lower Colorado River region. The branch campus offers curricula that are affiliated with the Flagstaff campus as well as develops demand-driven programs that are uniquely situated at NAU-Yuma. The branch campus works in partnership with local community colleges, especially Arizona Western College, to be a local hub for furthering the educational goals of the citizens of Yuma and La Paz counties. As a federally designated Hispanic Serving branch campus, NAU-Yuma provides NAU faculty in Flagstaff and across the state with applied research opportunities in areas that facilitate trans-border studies, economic development, public safety and health, multicultural education, and environmental sustainability.
At NAU–Yuma, we are here to serve your higher educational learning needs. We offer a number of baccalaureate and masters degrees as well as a doctorate in Educational Leadership. Our dedicated faculty will help inspire you to succeed in the career path of your choice. Our staff are committed to making your learning experience enjoyable. All of us at NAU-Yuma want to help you in your lifelong learning journey.
NAU-Yuma is highly engaged in our community. We are developing undergraduate research projects that address issues of our region, as well as internships and service learning opportunities with local companies and agencies.
Students who attend NAU–Yuma include students who complete lower-division coursework and transfer to NAU–Yuma for upper-division courses, as well as students who enroll concurrently at AWC and NAU–Yuma and students pursuing graduate degrees.
If you are interested in attending, please contact NAU–Yuma to obtain information about transferring courses from Arizona’s community colleges, California’s community colleges, and other institutions.
For more information, contact NAU–Yuma, PO Box 6236, Yuma, AZ 85366 (888-NAU-YUMA or 928-317-6400, Ext. 1) or visit our website at www.yuma.nau.edu/.
NAU–Yuma offers academic plans for both undergraduate and graduate students. For specific information about the requirements for these plans, refer to the section titled NAU’s Academic Plans.
You may pursue any of the following undergraduate academic plans at NAU–Yuma.
B.B.A. in business administration
with emphases in management, global business and small business
B.A.S. in computer technology
B.S. in biology
B.S. in criminology and criminal justice
B.A.S. in early childhood education
B.S.Ed. in elementary education
B.S. in environmental sciences: biology
B.S.Ed. in secondary education: Earth Sciences
B.S.Ed. in secondary education: Spanish
B.S.W. in social work
B.A. in Spanish
B.S. and B.A. in psychology
B.A.S. in health promotion *
B.S. in hotel and restaurant management *
B.A. in humanities *
Interdisciplinary Studies:
with emphases in administration, arts and letters, criminal justice, early childhood education, enterprise in society, environmental science, learning and pedagogy, mathematics *, parks and recreation, administration of justice, public agency service, emergency services, humanities, public management, and sociology
B.A.S. in administration of justice
B.A.S. in public agency administration
B.A.S. in emergency services administration
B.A.S. in social and community service
B.S.N. in nursing *
You may pursue the following graduate degrees and state certification programs at NAU–Yuma.
master of administration *
M.Ed. in bilingual and multicultural education
state certification for teaching English as a second language/bilingual and multicultural education (ESL/BME)
M.A. in counseling
M.Ed. in human relations
M.Ed. in counseling, school counseling emphasis *
M.Ed. in early childhood education
M.Ed. in educational leadership
Ed.D. in educational leadership *
M.Ed. in elementary education Continuing Professional Education
M.Ed. in elementary education with certification
M.Ed. in educational technology *
M.A.T. in mathematics *
M.Ed. in secondary education *
M.Ed. in special education *
M.S.N. nursing *
post-degree state certification in secondary education *
administrative state certification, for principals and superintendents
endorsements in gifted and reading
* These programs are administered by NAU–Flagstaff; selected courses are available at NAU–Yuma.
To be admitted, you must meet the requirements described in the Admission sections of this catalog. Return your completed application to NAU–Yuma’s Office of Student Services or use the online application. If you are seeking readmission to NAU–Yuma, you must follow the same procedures as new students do.
You can find specific information about enrollment and courses offered in NAU–Yuma’s schedule of classes, which is published each term. To obtain a course enrollment form and the current term’s schedule of classes, contact NAU–Yuma’s Office of Student Services (928-317-6400, ext. 1, or 888-293-0392). Please visit our website at www.yuma.nau.edu/.