What’s New This Year?

2019 celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first graduate program (Master’s in Education) being offered at UNC Charlotte.

New Programs

New graduate programs and catalog sections that appear for the first time in this Catalog include:

Doctoral

• Civil Engineering, Ph.D.  

Master’s

• Urban Education, M.Ed.  
• Architecture, M.S., and Information Technology, M.S., Dual Degree  
• Public Health, MPH, and Anthropology, M.A., Dual Degree  
• Real Estate, M.S., and Business Administration, MBA, Dual Degree  

Certificates

• Anti-Racism in Urban Education, Graduate Certificate  
• Biomedical Sciences, Graduate Certificate  
• Biotechnology, Graduate Certificate  
• Languages and Culture Studies: Translation and Interpreting Studies, Spanish-English, Graduate Certificate  
• Public Policy Research and Analysis, Graduate Certificate  
• Workplace Competencies, Graduate Certificate  

Program Changes

Major changes to existing graduate degrees and programs include:

Doctoral

• Concentration in Learning, Design, and Technology added to Ed.D. in Educational Leadership  
• Concentration in Nurse Anesthesia Across the Lifespan added to Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)  

Master’s

• M.Ed. in Instructional Systems Technology renamed M.Ed. in Learning, Design, and Technology  
• Concentration in Actuarial Statistics added to M.S. in Mathematics  
• Concentration in Child and Family Studies added to M.Ed. in Special Education  
• Concentration in Digital Technologies and Material Systems renamed Concentration in Design Computation within the M.S. in Architecture  
• Concentration in Medical Anthropology added to M.A. in Anthropology  

Certificates

• Graduate Certificate in Instructional Systems Technology renamed Graduate Certificate in Learning, Design, and Technology  

Discontinued Programs

Discontinued graduate degrees and programs include:

• Post-Master’s Certificate in Curriculum and Supervision