Resources to help you explore majors at HSU

1. Exploring Majors at HSU

2.  Majors & Programs website
 Career Center: What can I do with this major?
 Career Assessments
 Major Departments
 Clubs & Activities
Resources for exploring

3.  Significantly vary in size (33 – 100 units)
 Core courses (GE double-counts)
 Options / pathways
 Minors
 Classes with labs / fieldwork
How majors are organized

4. Majors & Programs website

5. List of all majors at HSU

6. Find information about a specific major

7. Example: Environmental Management
& Protection (EMP)

8. EMP program requirements

9. EMP major

10. EMP fact sheet

11. EMP
fact sheet

12. EMP course descriptions

13. EMP course descriptions cont…

14. EMP 4-year plans

15. EMP 4-year plan, page 1

16. EMP 4-year plan, page 2

17. Career Center

18. What can I do with this major?

19. What can I do with a major in EMP?

20. What can I do with EMP?

21. Career Assessments
 Strong Interest Inventory
 Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator
 Jungian Typology
 Strengths Quest

22.  Meet with the department chair or faculty
advisor
 Visit the department website
 Talk to students in the major
 Wander the halls
Explore major departments

23. Clubs & Activities

24. What-if DARS

25. What-if DARS: Look up plan

26. What-if DARS: EMP

27. What-if DARS: EMP
major double-counts

28.  Many GE courses are introductory major
courses (double-counts)
 Lower division GE areas C and D courses are
good choices for exploring majors
 Specific area B courses double-count for
majors in science, math, and social science
How GE courses can help

29.  You must choose your major by 60 units
 After 90 units, you must request permission
to change your major
 Undeclared freshmen tend to change majors
less often than other freshmen
Things to consider

30. Advising Center
Come see us soon!
Student & Business Services (SBS), room 295
Phone: (707) 826-5224
Email: advise@humboldt.edu
Website: www.humboldt.edu/advise