{"id":11771,"date":"2019-02-07T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T20:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=11771"},"modified":"2024-01-22T16:23:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T20:23:35","slug":"declaration-of-major-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/declaration-of-major-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Declaration of Major Day a Milestone for Sophomores"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11776\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11776\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11776\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/02\/Declaration-of-Major-Day-1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Male student smiles and signs Declaration of Major Day forms\" width=\"584\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/02\/Declaration-of-Major-Day-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/02\/Declaration-of-Major-Day-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/02\/Declaration-of-Major-Day-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/02\/Declaration-of-Major-Day-1-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/02\/Declaration-of-Major-Day-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Declaration of Major Day is a festive gathering where sophomores designate their majors, minors and concentrations at Kalamazoo College.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are two camps of students who come to college: those who know exactly what they want to study \u2014 or are pretty sure they know \u2014 and those who don\u2019t. Kalamazoo College takes a different approach to helping students decide their major. Through the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/k-plan\/\">K-Plan<\/a><\/em>, students explore and discover academic fields for a year and a half before choosing a major. Best of all, the curriculum is designed to give students this freedom while keeping them on track to graduate in four years. This past Wednesday\u2019s Declaration of Major Day, the midpoint of their sophomore year, was a festive gathering where students formally designated their majors, minors and concentrations.<\/p>\n<p>The banquet hall at <a href=\"https:\/\/map.concept3d.com\/?id=198#!m\/17918?ce\/19589,19788,1845?ct\/0\">Hicks Student Center<\/a> was packed as each department set up a booth. Students went from table to table, committing to their fields of study and getting stickers declaring their choices. They celebrated the big moment with one another and the rest of campus with a piece of cake baked for the event by <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/dining\/\">Dining Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeclaration of Major Day is a 15-year tradition at Kalamazoo College,\u201d Associate Dean of Students Dana Jansma said. \u201cCollege students everywhere are required to declare a major, but here at K we make it a special event and celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jansma also said it\u2019s a way to celebrate students finding their academic home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a real rite-of-passage for sophomores,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>K senior Emma Eisenbeis, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/programs\/political-science\/\">political science<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/programs\/german\/\">German<\/a> double major, recalled the excitement of her Declaration of Major Day. \u201cThis event gives you the opportunity to situate yourself in your academic community with your fellow peers and faculty. It really hits you that this is the start of your career path,\u201d Eisenbeis said.<\/p>\n<p>This event typically merges the two camps of students into one, where they all have a sense of where their paths are headed. And if something changes, no worries. Thanks to the flexibility of the <em>K-Plan<\/em>, the College will work with students to make a switch of major or majors as seamless as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two camps of students who come to college: those who know exactly what they want to study \u2014 or are pretty sure they know \u2014 and those who don\u2019t. Kalamazoo College takes a different approach to helping students decide their major. Through the K-Plan, students explore and discover academic fields for a year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":11776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234,231],"tags":[104,38],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-11771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-students","tag-k-plan","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Declaration of Major Day a Milestone for Sophomores - News and Events<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Declaration of Major Day is a festive gathering where sophomores designate their majors, minors and concentrations at Kalamazoo College.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/declaration-of-major-day\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Declaration of Major Day a Milestone for Sophomores - 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college: those who know exactly what they want to study \u2014 or are pretty sure they know \u2014 and those who don\u2019t. Kalamazoo College takes a different approach to helping students decide their major. Through the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/k-plan\/\">K-Plan<\/a><\/em>, students explore and discover academic fields for a year and a half before choosing a major. Best of all, the curriculum is designed to give students this freedom while keeping them on track to graduate in four years. This past Wednesday\u2019s Declaration of Major Day, the midpoint of their sophomore year, was a festive gathering where students formally designated their majors, minors and concentrations.<\/p>\n<p>The banquet hall at <a href=\"https:\/\/map.concept3d.com\/?id=198#!m\/17918?ce\/19589,19788,1845?ct\/0\">Hicks Student Center<\/a> was packed as each department set up a booth. Students went from table to table, committing to their fields of study and getting stickers declaring their choices. They celebrated the big moment with one another and the rest of campus with a piece of cake baked for the event by <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/dining\/\">Dining Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeclaration of Major Day is a 15-year tradition at Kalamazoo College,\u201d Associate Dean of Students Dana Jansma said. \u201cCollege students everywhere are required to declare a major, but here at K we make it a special event and celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jansma also said it\u2019s a way to celebrate students finding their academic home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a real rite-of-passage for sophomores,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>K senior Emma Eisenbeis, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/programs\/political-science\/\">political science<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/programs\/german\/\">German<\/a> double major, recalled the excitement of her Declaration of Major Day. \u201cThis event gives you the opportunity to situate yourself in your academic community with your fellow peers and faculty. It really hits you that this is the start of your career path,\u201d Eisenbeis said.<\/p>\n<p>This event typically merges the two camps of students into one, where they all have a sense of where their paths are headed. And if something changes, no worries. Thanks to the flexibility of the <em>K-Plan<\/em>, the College will work with students to make a switch of major or majors as seamless as possible.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11771"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21517,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11771\/revisions\/21517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11771"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=11771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}