1. Exploring Majors at WKU Academic Advising & Retention Center
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2. Are you nervous about not having a major?
80% of students with a declared major are still unsure
AARC processed over 15,000 change of major forms last year
Most exploratory students only change their major once – and that’s the major they graduate with
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3. How do we help students? Advising Exploratory Program sponsored events
Majors and Minors & Study Abroad Fair
Exploratory News
Center for Career and Professional Development (CCPD)
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4. The Exploratory Program
Mission: The Exploratory Program is an initiative of the Academic Advising & Retention Center (AARC) created to lead Exploratory students on a path to self discovery. Students will explore the wide array of majors that WKU has to offer. The Exploratory Program will empower students to make well informed decisions regarding their major and career options. Students who utilize the Exploratory Program will build a foundation of success in order to persist to graduation.
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5. Exploratory Advising Advised in AARC
You can select general Exploratory or Exploratory within a particular college:
Potter College of Arts & Letters
Gordon Ford College of Business
College of Education & Behavioral Sciences
College of Health and Human Services
Ogden College of Science and Engineering
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6. WKU Colonnade Program (required for all WKU students beginning fall 2014)
Foundations: Intellectual and Practical Skills (18 hours)
Explorations: Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Physical and Natural World (12 hours)
Connections: Understanding Individual and Social Responsibility (9 hours)
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Total: 39 hours (22 hours for associate degree programs)
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7. Four Year Pathways
Each major has a suggested four year pathway that assists students to see what classes would be required for a given major.
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9. Majors & Minors Fair #HeadForTheHill
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10. The Exploratory News
The Exploratory News is a newsletter devoted to Exploratory students. This newsletter is another resource for students in their search for the major that suits them best.
This newsletter will be ed to Exploratory students every month, and is also available through the WKU Exploratory website.
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11. Center for Career and Professional Development
The CCPD serves all students in their career needs, all the way from exploration to the actual job search.
For Exploratory students, CCPD counselors can help students consider career options for any major WKU offers.
CCPD also offers a career assessment called MyPlan which accounts for a student’s preferences, personality, skills, and interests.
Students can also use the What Can I Do With this Major? website.
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12. Other Methods Process of elimination (WKU Majors and Minors)
Summer job/volunteer experience
Job shadow/interviewing
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13. Academic Advising & Retention Center
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Academic Advising & Retention Center
Downing Student Union 2141
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