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Guide to JHU - Academic
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Undergraduate Studies
Johns Hopkins offers a wide variety of majors and minors, allowing
students to pursue almost any area of study. Students can select
either a departmental or an area major for the degree program. Departmental
majors attract those who have a strong interest in a particular
discipline and want to specialize in it. Every department requires
or recommends that students interested in its discipline take particular
courses and achieve certain levels of proficiency.
Area majors are interdepartmental. They are broader
and more flexible than most departmental majors. Such undergraduate
programs fall into three general areas: humanistic studies, natural
sciences, and social and behavioral sciences. Examples of concentration
within an area major would be comparative literature, urban studies,
and behavioral biology.
Johns Hopkins offers two undergraduate degrees:
Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Sciences. Usually students will
indicate the degree in which they are interested at the end of freshman
year, but this decision can be postponed or changed. In many departments,
undergraduates of exceptional ability and motivation can sometimes
do graduate work to qualify simultaneously for the Bachelor’s
and Master’s degree at the end of four years.
An undergraduate, then, has much flexibility in planning four years
at Johns Hopkins, but this carries with it the responsibility of
constructing a course of study that is integrated and meaningful.
Undergraduates must ask themselves what they want from their undergraduate
education. As in the case of choosing a school, students should
design a program that offers the greatest intellectual rewards and
challenges.
Qualified students can take part in accelerated
programs for advanced degrees; however, undergraduate years should
be treated as an experience in themselves, not only as a step toward
graduate or professional school. Undergraduate life can be a time
of discovery and adventure both in and out of the classroom. The
opportunities are limited only by one’s own ability, capacity,
and initiative.
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