What Can Students do with an LSA major? Degree Checklist (pdf)
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The LSA program stresses exploring the scope of a topic across disciplines and gives its students a certain flexibility of curricular emphases within the major. Requirements for the BA specify a distribution of course work rather than courses with specific content. In consultation with LSA advisers, LSA majors determine what courses best suit their personal and academic aims.
Sometime during their junior or senior year, LSA students must describe in writing how the seemingly disparate pieces of the LSA curriculum cohere at that time for them. This account of individual focus is the Statement of Purpose. The statement should be a serious and reflective attempt to set forth personal and academic goals. This writing exercise, therefore, will encourage LSA majors to assume responsibility for their own academic direction and development by articulating the coherence of their individual interests. The experience and process of creating the statement of purpose also serves a practical purpose. Similar statements are required when students apply for jobs or for admission to graduate or professional schools. LSA majors, therefore, who have already written a statement of purpose, will be better prepared to formulate their future personal and professional goals. |
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