As students enter their second semester, it is important for them to continue developing their critical thinking, speaking, and writing skills cultivated in TAP and also to reflect on their choices of majors and minors*. Our second-semester program, Academic Introduction to the Major (AIM), is designed to facilitate the transition into a potential major. Courses identified in the AIM program encourage the intellectual shift from a broad exposure to the liberal arts to in-depth study in a particular field. The AIM program identifies courses in all disciplines that serve as “gateway” courses to the major, giving students an opportunity to begin exploring the discipline in a more substantial manner in coursework that introduces them to the nature of inquiry typical in the major.
Consult the menu to the left for gateway courses sorted by major.
* The College of Arts and Sciences offers more than 55 minors. Please see our Departments, Programs & Degrees page for a complete listing.
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