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What can I do with my major? Archives

 

David Rizzo (left) with some graduating Global Disease Biology students from the class of 2017.

Global Disease Biology Major Inspires Collaboration, Allows Flexibility

  • by Sofie Bates
  • June 20, 2018
  • What Can I Do With My Major?
Participation is a unique focus of the Theatre and Dance major.

4 Ways Theatre and Communications Studies Expand Career Options

  • by Katherine Lee
  • June 14, 2018
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The La Huaylla, Peru Implementation trip, summer of 2017.

5 Ways to Get a Global Perspective for Better Career Options

  • by Susan Ebeler
  • May 30, 2018
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Man standing in front of Capitol

5 Great Government Jobs and How to Prepare for Them

  • by Tyler McLaughlin
  • April 19, 2018
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Two students from Davis Women in Business club pose with achievement certificates.

Female-Majority Student Clubs Offer Support and Career Development

  • by Maria Akhter
  • April 11, 2018
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A professor teaches in front of a large lecture with a slide presentation behind them.

American Studies Majors Turn Passions to Professions

  • by Jeffrey Day
  • April 10, 2018
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Brita Sigourney wears the costume designed by Aliyah Cohen

More Aggie Pride at the Olympics

  • by Dave Jones
  • February 16, 2018
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UC Davis international relations alumni Sawsan Morrar, left, with a fellow scholarship winner

How UC Davis Undergraduates Can Become Journalists

  • by Sawsan Morrar
  • February 14, 2018
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Communications graduate student Gracie Wolff wears a virtual reality headset to study the effects of role playing on public pers

Communication Majors Focus on Our Digital and Virtual Futures

  • by Kathleen Holder
  • February 13, 2018
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Maia Yellowhorse, a pharmaceutical chemistry major, in Lisa Miller's lab

Pharmaceutical Chemistry Offers Careers From Prescriptions to Pinot Noir

  • by Becky Oskin
  • February 12, 2018
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2016 UC Davis Advanced Modeling Aeronautics Team and its aircraft

Aerospace Engineers Explore Infinity and Beyond

  • by Pamela Kisting and Bonnie Dickson
  • February 07, 2018
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History majors Setarah Jahid, Garrett O'Donnell-Boyd, Richard Young, Amanda Huse, Louisa Brandt and Breezy Akeson ata table

History Majors Know What's Happening by Understanding the Past

  • by Edward Dickinson
  • February 06, 2018
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A team of male students using Tinketoys to build a structure

4 Assumptions About Majors Proven Wrong

  • by Maria Akhter
  • February 05, 2018
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Community and regional development major Nick Sosa, right, works with a college in the city of Rancho Cordova

What Our Community and Regional Development Majors Do

  • by Susanne Rockwell
  • January 30, 2018
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Instructor Nelly Sugira, standing to the right, helps students with a code-stringing exercise

4 Rising Careers in Tech and How to Get Ready for Them

  • by Kristin Mick
  • January 29, 2018
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Environmental portrait of Amy Lowrey behind a tree branch

3 Mythbusters About Humanities Majors

  • by Amy Lowrey
  • January 24, 2018
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Undergraduate researcher Nadia Albayati '19 in Roopali Kukreja's laboratory. Photo: Reeta Asmai/UC Davis.

Study the 'Stuff' Around Us In Materials Science and Engineering

  • by Aditi Risbud Bartl
  • January 22, 2018
  • What Can I Do With My Major?
Two male undergraduates examining the skull of a mammal

Consider a Degree in Evolution, Ecology and Biodiversity

  • by Lily Coates
  • January 17, 2018
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Student in a baseball cap facing a male parent in a discussion

5 Considerations When Telling Parents About Changing Your Major

  • by Roy Grabow
  • January 16, 2018
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Landscape architecture major Mikaela Bernhardt

Designing Outdoor Spaces With Creativity and Technology

  • by Robin DeRieux
  • January 10, 2018
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A group of entering medical students (women) with stethoscopes posting together

10 Top Graduate Programs at UC Davis

  • by Elizabeth Forrest Lambert
  • January 08, 2018
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A male student listening attentively to a female representative of Triage Consulting Group at a career fair

5 Dos and Don’ts When Students Go for a Job Interview

  • by Janice Morand
  • January 02, 2018
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Portrait of managerial economics major Patrick McCartney

What Our Managerial Economics Majors Do

  • by Maria Akhter
  • December 20, 2017
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Biolology alumna Kate Brown Richards posing in her doctor's coat at UC Davis Medical Center

What Our Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior Majors Do

  • by Maria Akhter
  • December 19, 2017
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Communication major Chinsin Sim sitting on the East UC Davis Wall

What Our Communication Majors Do

  • by Maria Akhter
  • December 18, 2017
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