General Arts and Sciences: Choosing the right educational path for your future

The offerings in the Jannen School of Arts & Sciences are extensive and lead to a wide variety of careers. Graduates might go into medicine, radio production, broadcasting, criminal law, forensic psychology, abnormal psychology, data analysis and research, and crime scene investigation, among others, or they might pursue graduate work in their chosen field of study. The academic offerings are so wide-ranging that they might arouse your curiosity while making the final selection of a major an extremely difficult one.

Explore
Are you interested in criminal justice, forensic science and psychology, but are unsure which major to choose? Have you thought about careers involving gene cloning, biotechnology, or agrochemicals, but cannot decide on majoring in either biology or chemistry? Are you strong in mathematics yet thinking about other fields of study? Perhaps someday you would like to work in public relations or journalism, but also have an interest in marketing and as a result are unsure about a major in communication.

Experience
If you are like so many other young people with an array of interests in arts and sciences fields, you might want to consider beginning your studies at Trine University as a general arts and sciences student. This option affords you the opportunity to enroll full-time, take classes in your areas of interest, become better acquainted with the course offerings and faculty members in those areas, and ultimately decide on a major that best suits your educational and projected career needs.

Excel
Explore your options before deciding on a major. Your experiences will help you to excel in not only your career, but your life.

Best wishes with your future academic experiences at Trine University.

Contact:
Craig W. Laker
Interim Dean, Jannen School of Arts & Sciences
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice
Trine University
1 University Ave.
Angola, IN 46703
260.665.4862
lakerc@trine.edu