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2024-2025 Academic Catalog

Construction Science Major (COSI), BS


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The Construction Science degree prepares students to be professional constructors and managers within the industry of the built environment. The curriculum is designed to produce professional personnel equipped to manage and mitigate the growing challenges in all aspects of construction. The degree consists of a compilation of engineering science and project management coursework that will prepare the student for professional careers in residential, commercial, and heavy construction.

The program prepares graduates to execute the designs created by engineers and architects. Students share the same classroom with engineering and architecture students preparing for their professional careers. This setting and approach equip the construction science students with an in-depth understanding of construction design, specifications, and expectations that govern the projects the student will be executing after graduation.

The program affords students a level of construction science education that would require multiple years of industry experience to develop. This provides students the opportunity to be highly marketable for the many open positions within the construction industry, as well as opportunities to rapidly advance within their construction organizations.

Requirements


Liberal Arts: 34 Hours


All majors at Harding are required to complete the 47-hour Liberal Arts  program. The following Liberal Arts requirements are met within the content of the major:

  • MATH 2300  and PHYS 2000  satisfy 6 hours of Inquiry, Investigation, and Reasoning.
  • ENGR 3100  and IS 4200  satisfy 7 hours of Self and Society. According to Arkansas State Law, international students are required to take POLS 1787 , which will increase the number of hours for the major.

Major: 80 Hours


Choose 4-5 hours from the following courses:


Other courses may be approved by the department chair.

Remaining Bible/Electives: 6 Hours


BUS 4350 , included in the major, satisfies the Bible requirement in the semester it is taken. 

See Bible Class Enrollment policy here.  

Total Hours: 120 Hours


Note(s):


Construction science majors have the following Liberal Arts substitution: ENGR 3100  is a substitute for ECON 2010  and BUS 2510 .

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