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SERP 197P: Explore, Discover, Decide...your major (2 units)

Available for 7 Week II Session Only Spring 2024

If you're looking to explore, choose, or change majors, SERP 197P: Explore, Discover, Decide...Your Major can you help you to narrow down your options, confirm, or declare your major by the end of the semester!

In this course, students motivated to explore and decide on a major are guided through self and major exploration. The goal is for students to have the tools and knowledge necessary to help them with their major decision by the end of the class. 

Major Exploration Tools used in this class include: 
•    Interests, values, and personality inventories
•    Major exploration exercises
•    Journal writing
•    A final project involving the research of a major

What students who have taken SERP197P have said:

• “Before SERP 197, I had no idea as to what I was doing in college and most certainly didn’t know what I wanted to major in. The assignments we did had a major impact on me…completing each assignment got me one step closer to deciding what I wanted to major in and do in college.”
• “This class has caused me to reflect deeply about what I want my future to look like. I was apprehensive about the class at first because I don’t necessarily like to think about my future like that, but it was necessary, and this class gave me the space to do so.”
   
• “Over this course the major exploration/ major designing was hard at first but then became an easy process. The hardest part was really the beginning thinking I really knew what major I wanted to pursue but then actually realizing that maybe that wasn’t the right choice for me. Looking at all the different majors made it difficult to choose but I eventually was able to find my best fit. The biggest thing I learned for myself was that change is extremely okay.”
   
• “I went into college having no idea what I wanted to major in. Of course when we enroll and we don’t have a major, we are told that it is ok. I still felt left behind as my classmates in other classes already knew what their major was. Part of the reason why I couldn’t make a decision was because I didn’t trust myself. I thought that I needed to be one hundred percent sure of my major. As I learned in class it’s good to just be seventy five percent sure. This process helped me trust myself more and gave me a path to follow.”

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TLS 100 (1-unit)

Navigating the Research University is a course focused on successfully navigating and thriving as an undergraduate student at the University of Arizona. When college students thrive, they are “fully engaged intellectually, socially, and emotionally in the college experience” (Schreiner, 2010a, p. 4). The curriculum of this course is built upon 5 dimensions of the college experience most predictive of academic success and satisfaction in college: social connectedness, engaged learning, academic determination, positive perspective, and diverse citizenship (Schreiner, 2013).  We will do this through the lens of accessing resources, reflection on the self, and utilizing academic advising.

This course is required for all incoming, first-year students in The A Center.