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The special education major leads to the Professional Educator License with special education endorsement (Pre-K to Age 21). Students who choose to major in special education may also complete another major leading to a second endorsement (elementary, middle grades, a secondary program, or a K-12 specialist program).

The mission of Trinity’s business department is to provide, within a Reformed Christian liberal arts context, a comprehensive foundation in business theory and practice that prepares you for your vocation and/or graduate studies. We use a servant-leadership model to prepare you to be effective leaders and managers within any sphere of business.

Through dynamic, hands-on classes, you will strengthen your ability to solve problems, build effective teams, innovate in a fast-changing world of business, and understand how to grow the skills of your workforce while furthering the goals of the organization. The business administration major will help you grow as an ethical and strategic leader, integrating your own knowledge and experiences with the principals of good management and leadership.

Classes meet at night from 6 pm-10 pm. Classes begin each fall and are offered on a year-round basis. There are multiple opportunities to join classes throughout the year. Please contact us to see what our current class schedule and availability is.

Tuition  is $613 per credit hour. Tuition includes all rental books and a wireless laptop computer (which is yours to keep after graduation). Learn about financial aid and scholarship opportunities HERE.

Learn about the Admissions process HERE.

At Trinity, you can choose to minor in digital design. Studies in digital design combine art, art history, computer science, communication arts and business courses.

Your degree in digital design can lead to jobs in start-ups as well as national firms. Or you may decide to pursue work at an ad agency or design firm.

Trinity’s beautiful Palos Heights, Ill., campus is 25 miles from downtown Chicago. That means that the Windy City’s internationally recognized art and design scenes are an extension of our classrooms. Explore Chicago’s exciting galleries, museums, and studios under the guidance of professors whose work is in those galleries and collections. First-hand encounters with artists and designers in Chicago will prepare you for your role as an artist, designer, or art educator in the always evolving contemporary art world.

As an art student at Trinity, internships provide practical preparation for your career. Specializations in the fine arts will help you focus on your talents. Built on the creative and intellectual foundation of the fine arts, the art department also offers concentrations in courses that can lead to graduate school in fine art or careers in the graphic arts. The program culminates with an internship and an exhibition in the College’s Seerveld Gallery.

For students with a love of numbers and the desire to work with organizations, Trinity offers a minor in accounting. Our accounting students are positioned for professional success when they leave here—in 2020, Trinity’s accounting program graduates had the highest pass rate and average exam score in the state on the CPA exams administered by the Illinois Board of Examiners!

Along with exceptional academics, Trinity accounting students also enjoy all the internship opportunities that Chicago offers. Many of our accounting students receive job offers before they graduate. Employers know how well-prepared our graduates are.

When you bring a Christian perspective to a career in finance, you can make a difference in the world. With a minor in finance from Trinity, you will experience and understand how organizations create and manage their resources. You will also better understand the fields of banking and finance beyond dollars and cents. Your coursework will include asset allocation, global finance, real estate, securities, and tax.

With internship opportunities that only a global city like Chicago can provide, you will develop the knowledge, skills, and values to contribute to the financial success of organizations of all sizes.

If you are called to minister to others, a minor from Trinity will prepare you academically and spiritually. Your studies within Trinity’s Christian ministry program will provide relationships and resources to help you investigate and begin a life in ministry. When you leave Trinity, you will be equipped to serve in leadership, evangelistic ministries, or administration.

Our small class sizes, access to a diverse range of churches and parachurch organizations, and an active campus ministry program provide opportunities for you to learn, grow, and prepare to participate in God’s mission. Through your coursework, you will learn practical approaches to administration and leadership, spiritual formation, worship leadership, and the nature and ministry of the church.

With our location just 25 miles from downtown Chicago, you will also have the opportunity to complete your field education in a range of settings that will give you hands-on, heart-engaged experience.

If you have a drive to become an excellent teacher and coach, a minor in physical education degree from Trinity will equip you to embrace and articulate a Christian perspective of physical activity and stewardship of the body.

Trinity is just 25 miles from downtown Chicago, so you will have tremendous opportunities to complete your field experience and gain hands-on experience. You’ll also always have a professional hometown team to cheer on, whether you love baseball, hockey, basketball, football, soccer—or all of them.

The global community needs those in the criminal justice system who are compassionate professionals that apply justice to those accused of breaking laws. And at Trinity, you will also learn about restoration for those who commit crimes, and even greater restitution for crime victims and society in general.

We honor the biblical and social bases of the law enforcement and justice systems. Our faculty also focus on how the criminal justice system is an integral part of other social institutions. We believe that our graduates should be well educated, resolute, just, and seasoned with Christian love.

And since Trinity is located just 25 miles from downtown Chicago, you will be able to apply your knowledge and gain experience in urban communities, courtrooms, and correctional facilities.

Graduates of the criminal justice program are equipped to seek their vocation in local and state police forces; federal law enforcement agencies; peacemaking, community-building, and justice innovation; conventional and alternative punishment systems; reintroducing prisoners into civilian society; and the criminal court system. Our alumni are Chicago Police Department officers, serve in the U.S. military, work in private security, and are employed by federal agencies.

Human resources requires a unique set of skills, and a minor from Trinity will prepare you for this key role. When you minor in Human Resource Management at Trinity, you will be prepared to effectively manage human resources activities from a strategic approach. You will gain a holistic view of organizational functions through your business coursework. And you will also learn to pay special attention to human relationships within organizations and how to manage them within an ethical framework.

At Trinity, you don’t just learn from textbooks. Since we’re located less than 25 miles from downtown Chicago, you will have many opportunities for internships and other hands on learning experiences.

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has acknowledged that Trinity’s HR Management degree now aligns with SHRM’s HR Curriculum Guidebook and Templates.

If you have a calling to learn more about how to develop a Christian perspective on the nature of humans, relationships, and institutions, than a minor in sociology from Trinity may be for you. Here, you will study how Christ’s redemption underlies the possibility of social and personal restoration. This perspective will give you a clearer understanding of engagement in social situations and in response to social issues.