Undergraduate Programs

Deciding or Undeclared Students

Deciding what your college major will be?

Don't worry! You don’t need to declare a major until your sophomore year at St. Bonaventure. Meanwhile, we have some Major Adventures in store for you.

St. Bonaventure’s Major Adventures Program (MAP) is designed to help incoming students in the School of Arts & Sciences map their future by exploring how their own interests and aptitudes mesh with a college major and potential careers.

As you explore the diversity of the arts and sciences, you may be pleased to discover that an additional minor or even a second major is in your grasp as well.

The program has the following components:

1. Academic Adviser

Each Major Adventures student is assigned to an academic adviser who has demonstrated excellence in advising.

2. University 101

Most Major Adventures students are in
the same sections of University 101, a required first-year course focusing on student success, in order to give them consistent programming and information about majors and career choices.

3. Learning Communities

Most Major Adventures students are in one of the many learning communities that ensure that small groups of Major Adventures students are in at least two course sections together.

4. Presentations and Socials

All MAP students are invited to presentations throughout the year that introduce them to majors and career opportunities. Some of these are Passport Activities that all freshmen attend; others are customized for MAP students. Some presentations are accompanied by refreshments and a time for students and advisers to chat informally.

5. Career Planning

All Major Adventures students are introduced to an online program of individualized career planning. They complete this program during the spring semester and share the results with their advisers, who help them to see how the academic programs at St. Bonaventure may fit with their career aspirations.

6. Vocation

Presentations and workshops explore the idea of vocation, of discerning which life choices seem like the right ones for each individual.

Find out more

Download the Major Adventures Program fact sheet

For more information about this program for undeclared Arts & Sciences students contact:

Dr. Guy F. Imhoff
Department of Modern Languages
Plassmann 207B-G10
gimhoff@sbu.edu
(716) 375-4038.