Exploratory studies integrates major selection with career exploration. In 这个程序, students examine their professional interests and align them with AU degrees. Advisors also assure certification and licensing requirements for a profession are met in academic training through a major.
Students benefit from integrated career and academic advising, hands-on shadowing experience or volunteering, courses designed to amplify interests and community support.
实践学习
Students’ exploring advisors connect them with:
- Opportunities in the community that preview professions of interest
- Volunteering or shadowing
- 教师 mentorship in the academic areas of interest
课程 & 组织
During their first semester, students enroll in a first-year seminar course (FYS 110) that is taught by a professor within students’ interest areas. This course often introduces students to their academic division and classmates who share their academic interests. Some students pair this course with a career exploration course (GENL 100), which also falls under the well-being area of the core curriculum.
Students can choose to study these concentrations:
- Education, Communication Disorders and Sign langu年龄 Interpreting
- Business Administration, Sports Man年龄ment and Economics
- Government, 历史, International Studies, Psychology or Sociology
- 美术, Langu年龄s and the Humanities (Anthropology, 沟通研究, 英语, 环境研究, 媒体研究, 哲学, 宗教)
- 健康 Sciences and Natural Science (This includes pre-professional concentration, such as medicine or allied health.)
- Engineering, Data Science, Technology, and Math
Exploring students eng年龄 in integrated career and academic advising. This advisor is familiar with all of AU’s degree programs and specializes in choosing a major as a certified career counselor and coach. Many students elect to connect with this Student Success Center advisor prior to the start of their first semester.