Yesterday, I stopped by the Majors Expo in the Adante Student Center.
Although I've already decided to go into the field of Special Education, the expo gave me a better insight into my prospective major and also on possible minors I am considering.
After I signed in, I walked through a set of doors into the ballroom of the Student Center and was slightly overwhelmed by the vast amount of people and tables with information on all of the different majors Southern has to offer.
As I previously mentioned, I plan on majoring in Special Education, but I am not sure whether I want to purse the Collaborative degree or the Comprehensive degree. The Collaborative degree would allow me to teach Special Ed students K-12 as well as Elementary Education K-3. The Comprehensive degree would only give me the ability to teach Special Education and no elementary. Collaborative may sound like the obviously better choice because of the flexibility and wide range of job opportunities it would provide me with, but that degree gives me three majors and a minor and takes almost twice as long to graduate with my Master's degree than the Comprehensive option does. The Comprehensive degree only gives me one major and one minor, so there is a little less stress and time involved. My only concern is that I am not sure what the demand is for Special Education teachers. If I choose to go with Comprehensive and cannot find a job in Special Education, what will I do?
I stopped at the tables for both my major and Liberal Arts to get some more information on them. I received a few pamphlets and papers with specific information on each subject as well as some free pens and candy! One thing I learned is that the Liberal Arts program allows you to split your second major into 2 separate minors so you can study more than just one of your fields of interest. Also, you can make up your own Liberal Arts minor! The woman I spoke to informed me of an option to create your own minor and take courses from different areas of study and combine them into a category of your own choosing. I have never heard of anything like that before.
The Majors Expo gave me clarification of certain gray areas in regards to majors and minors here at Southern. I spoke to quite a few very knowledgeable people and learned some new things that will help make my future decision making process here at Southern easier.
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