Choosing A Concentration

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Where are you on the path towards choosing your concentration?

See your prospective department’s website for info about concentration pre-reqs, requirements, and opportunities.
Make a list of your goals, a plan for what you want to accomplish in the department, and questions about the department’s requirements, resources, and opportunities.
Schedule an appointment with a concentration advisor to declare and discuss your goals, plan, and questions.

Talk to relevant departmental advisors about the courses, instructors, and opportunities in the department. Ask them about what their graduates have gone on to do.
Talk to peer advisors and/or current concentrators about what drew them to the field, what opportunities it has given them, what their future plans are.
Take more intro classes or an upper-level class in the departments in which you are most interested. Think about related departments and take intro classes in them, too.

Look through the list of Concentrations and then look at websites of ones that look interesting.
Talk to people, lots of people (general and departmental advisors, friends, family, current concentrators in departments whose classes interest you).
Take a wide range of classes, trying out areas of potential interest.
Attend the Concentration Fair, held every Winter semester.
Work through Concentration 101, our online workshop on choosing a concentration.
Use the 4 worksheets on choosing a concentration for your own reflection and to begin a conversation with your advisor