{"id":14677,"date":"2022-04-21T13:12:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T17:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dof\/?page_id=14677"},"modified":"2025-11-20T13:22:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:22:27","slug":"advising-resources-for-sophomores","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dof\/advising-resources-for-sophomores\/","title":{"rendered":"Advising Resources for Sophomores"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Your Academic Advisor<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong> Until a student declares a major (no later than March 1 of their second year), their pre-major academic advisor is most often their First-Year Seminar instructor. Once a student declares a major, a faculty member within that academic unit becomes their academic advisor. The academic advisor helps students explore the curriculum to discover their interests and to fulfill general education requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your Student Support Advisor<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong> The Student Support Advisor program supports student success by ensuring they know whom to go to when they need guidance, assistance, or just someone to talk to. Students are assigned a Student Support Advisor prior to their matriculation and remain with their advisor for the duration of their enrollment at Bates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The General Education Program:<\/strong><\/a> This page provides a helpful summary of the Bates general education requirements, which includes the Major +1, 5 MOIs, and 3 Ws). For a rationale for the program please see either the college catalog<\/a> or review this PDF about \u201cExploring the Bates Curriculum<\/a>.\u201d Students and faculty may find the advising pyramid graphic<\/a> helpful as it visually depicts all of the requirements of the general education and illustrates how the 5MOIs can be understood as a foundation on which a Bates educational experience may be built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Major Plus One Declaration<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong> Major Plus One must be declared by March 1 of the student\u2019s second (sophomore year). That deadline may be earlier (early February) if a student is seeking to study abroad or otherwise away from Bates during their third (junior) year. Information on all majors<\/a> can be found here. Information on minors<\/a> can be found here. Information on GECs<\/a> can be found here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Center for Global Education<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong> The Center for Global Education is the hub of global learning and cross-cultural engagement for students, faculty and staff of Bates. The Center for Global Education provides advising, programming, and resources for international students and for all students seeking to study off-campus. For an overview of all of the off-campus study opportunities at Bates, please view this video<\/a>. You can find more information on semester\/year off-campus study<\/a> and Short Term off-campus study<\/a> on the relevant websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Student Research\/Summer Research Fellowships<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong> Bates offers a variety of research fellowships to students to conduct independent and faculty-advised research. Students often apply for these fellowships during their sophomore and junior years. They are often a good way to begin to explore questions and topics for the senior thesis and capstone project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purposeful Work \u2013 Industries, Internships, and Interviews:<\/strong> As sophomores continue to engage with Purposeful Work activities<\/a>, dive into industry exploration, and expand their professional networks (particularly through LinkedIn<\/a>), they should take advantage of support from the Center for Purposeful Work <\/a>in terms of assessments, industry research, resume and cover letter writing, and interview preparation. Purposeful Work-infused and practitioner-taught courses, along with Purposeful Work summer internships\/funding and mini-grant funding, should also be on the radar of sophomores. We invite students to make an appointment with one of our professional advisors here<\/a> via Handshake to learn more about how Purposeful Work opportunities can advance their personal and professional goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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