Faculty Senate Secretary and Career Service Counselor Traci Ukita held the workshop on Sept. 28  for an hour in which there where only three students. The main target of the workshop was to help the undecided student and even students with majors to give information about all the type of career-based and non-career-based subject.

“It’s good to have lots of option regarding different majors, but it sometimes may over whelming, [students] might be in a dilemma.  It’s not that [students] have to chose one major and have to be in that for life, everyone can go in different fields even after choosing a particular major,” Ukita said.

Statistics may vary, but colleges and universities often report that at least 20-30 percent of students are undecided, most students do not stick with their first choice, 50-70 percent change their major at least once and other change majors three times on average .

Priscilia Graciano, undecided major, says, “I had lots of questions regarding my major and I have different thoughts about different subjects but now I feel I got my answer.”

The workshop is mainly targeted to students who are either changing their minds about a major, had something in mind before, have second thoughts about the major or might want to change majors or haven’t identified their major yet.

Many of the students are still confused about choosing.

“I am confused right now, I want someone help me out. I didn’t hear about the workshop, none of the people in the college told me about it, but I will go to the second one,” says Aparajita Rijal, a student who has had confusion about choosing between registered nurse and PA.

Henaro Soto, undecided major, says, “This workshop helped me build confidence in myself and helped to get rid of many myths I used to have in my mind regarding majors.”

Most college majors are not career specific but many are career specific, majors such as political science, English, sociology and many more are not career specific whereas, nursing, engineering, social work and architecture are career specific.

http://career.berkeley.edu and www.uncwil.edu/stuff/career/majors are some of the websites to look at that to give proper information about whether a career requires a specific major or not.

The workshop looks for a larger number of students participating in it.