{"id":3500,"date":"2026-03-05T11:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/?p=3500"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:52:15","slug":"take-steps-toward-choosing-a-major-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/take-steps-toward-choosing-a-major-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Steps Toward Choosing a Major"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Did you know that \u201cUndecided\u201d is the most popular major at OWU? Students have until the end of their Sophomore year to declare a major. Here are ways to take steps toward that decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read this guide to learn all about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.owu.edu\/about\/offices-services-directory\/academic-advising\/deciding-on-a-major\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">deciding on a major<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Choose a class or two in Fall to test out possible majors. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Join OWU\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.owu.edu\/channels\/exploratory-career-community\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Exploratory Career Community<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When you know what you want to major in, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/admin.owu.edu\/cgi-bin\/student\/OWerpMajMinStu.cgi\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">use this form<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. (You can change your mind later.)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When you declare your major, you can talk with a faculty member in that department about being your new advisor or stay with your current advisor.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that \u201cUndecided\u201d is the most popular major at OWU? Students have until the end of their Sophomore year to declare a major. Here are ways to take steps toward that decision. Read this guide to learn all about deciding on a major. Choose a class or two in Fall to test out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-year-hacks"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3501,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions\/3501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}