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Students coming into college often have a hard time anticipating the needs and roles they play in choosing their specific majorsmajor. Often students maybe even regret As 17-18 year olds, it can be extremely stressful and difficult to choose the major or path they chose in college due want to just unknown factors take that can be avoided with more knowledgewill affect their careers and success in such a huge way. This goal focuses on delivering Often times, students knowledge about don’t have a well-rounded view of the possible fields they can go to targeted specifically to freshman. This optional class would allow students to get a little glimpse into most majors here on campus; for example, providing them information on workload, requirements, difficulty, opportunities, resources, and most importantly jobs. This class will hopefully reduce the number of students who switch are an intended biology major may never have been exposed to any sort of engineering class that may impact their majors sophomore and junior year or even prevent students regretting decision on their major choice. Therefore, it is important that students are able to experience the different majors on campus before making a decision.

This To address this problem, we have designed a strategy that designs modular-segmented class would have numerous professors come in every week and teach the same curriculum each moduleto guide freshmen to multiple disciplines. Students then This course would have outline the option course work of going to whichever professor / various majors, prerequisites, possible careers that utilize each major they are interested in and stay in that all week doing all the material corresponding salaries, and maybe even homework. Then what the next week they day-to-day life would choose another professor / major module be in each of those careers (i.e. hours, amount of work, freedom for a personal life, etc.) In designing such a course, students are able to attend be exposed to gain a few of the most popular majors on campus and can therefore make a more knowledge about all Cal has to offerwell-informed decision on their future path. 

This strategy focuses on delivering students the knowledge of various fields and majors. The goal of this course is to reduce the number of students who switch their majors during sophomore and junior year, and provide a holistic approach to choosing majors.&nbsp; <u>Project leads:</u> &nbsp;Precious Listana, James Zamora, Alex Kamgar& Sydney Zachariah&nbsp;

23. Meet with professors and administration to better understand the complexity of creating this type of class and better understand the scope of this project&nbsp;Talk to professors that are already doing something similar like Robert Full's Bio-inspired design class and Sara Beckman''(BY: 04/2017)''' 3. Decide curriculum priorities and structure of class, such as how ofter professors should come, how long each module would be, what majors to offer, etc.s Collaborative Innovation&nbsp;'''(BY: 0403/2017)''' 

== Strategy #4: Pairing a design course with the top 10 majors that fall under pre-professional career ambitions == Students coming into college often have a hard time choosing their major. As 18 year olds, it can be extremely stressful and difficult to choose the path they want to take that will affect their careers and success in such a huge way. Often times, students don’t have a well-rounded view of the majors on campus; for example, students who are an intended biology major may never have been exposed to any sort of engineering class that may impact their decision on their major. Therefore, it is important that students are able to experience the different majors on campus before making a decision. To address this problem, we have designed a strategy in which a design course is taught that incorporates the top 10 most popular majors on campus; this course would outline the course work of the majors, prerequisites, possible careers that utilize each major and corresponding salaries, and what the day-to-day life would be in each of those careers (i.e. hours, amount of work, freedom for a personal life, etc.) In designing such a course, students are able to be exposed to a few of the most popular majors on campus and can therefore make a more well-informed decision on their future path. Project leads: Precious Listana, James Zamora, Alex Kamgar & Sydney Zachariah&nbsp; <span style="font-size: small;"><u>Tactics & Execution</u></span> 1. Populate a repertoire of the top 10 most popular majors at UC Berkeley&nbsp;'''(BY: 03/2017)''' 25. Discover all "pre-professional" career options such as: pre-med, pre-law, pre-business, and integrate an umbrella system that can count for a major requirement/breadth within their respective departments&nbsp;'''(BY: 04/2017)''' 36. Talk Meet with professors and administration to professors that are already doing something similar like Robert Full's Bio-inspired design better understand the complexity of creating this type of class and Sara Beckman's Collaborative Innovation&nbsp;'''(BY: 03/2017)''' 4. Contact better understand the Department chair scope of Interdisciplinary Studies to support and mentor a seminarthis project&nbsp;'''(BY: 04/2017)'''

57. Research Contact the economic barriers Department chair of Interdisciplinary Studies to support and provide mentor a pitch deck that will highlight the monetary gain for not only the school, but also the professorsseminar&nbsp;'''(BY: 0504/2017)'''

68. Innovate upon already existing curriculums Decide curriculum priorities and further develop a curriculum that will embody design thinking alongside collaborating structure of class, such as how ofter professors from Jacobs Institute of Designshould come, how long each module would be, what majors to offer, Saturdja Center (CITRIS) and the Blum Centeretc.&nbsp;'''(BY: 0504/2017)'''