Archives: Major/Minors

When you choose to minor in special education from Trinity, you will learn the skills you need to encourage and grow students with special needs, and Trinity can get you ready to meet your passion.

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.

The global community needs teachers who are prepared to educate and guide the diversity of learners found in many classrooms today. Trinity’s Diverse Learners minor prepares our students for teaching those with learning differences and those whose first language is not English.

This minor combines English as a Second Language (ESL)/Bilingual Education (BE) classes with special education courses. Students who complete the Diverse Learners minor receive an ESL or BE endorsement.  It represents another possible minor for those seeking elementary, secondary, or K-12 education licensure. The minor can also be paired as a second minor with a content area education minor (English, Science, Social Science) for the Middle Grades Education Major.

When you choose to minor in special education from Trinity, you will learn the skills you need to encourage and grow students with special needs, and Trinity can get you ready to meet your passion.

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.

Trinity’s beautiful 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, you will gain hands-world experience through internships that 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.

A minor in chemistry from Trinity will prepare you for further studies at the graduate level, as well as for careers in research, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and food industries, among many others.

Through research, independent study, and field work and internships at some of the nation’s most cutting-edge science centers, you will be prepared for a career in industrial chemistry, medicine, teaching, or graduate studies while expanding your understanding of the Creator, His creation, and our care for it.

Be a communicator who is a Christian and engages culture critically with a Kingdom vision. That is the mission of the communication arts program minor offering.

Students are supported in their diverse interests and career goals through the multiple options to explore contexts, theories, and applications, as well as develop skills in speaking and writing.