UMA Undergraduate Guide 2018-2019 Schools and Colleges College of Social and Behavioral Sciences SBS Pathways
SBS Pathways
SBS students build their university experience through SBS Pathways, which encompasses four areas of experiences and development: Academic, Co-Curricular, Experiential, and Career/Professional Development. In Academics, students choose majors and courses, and may earn certificates or minors; in the Co-Curricular area, they actively pursue their interests and leadership opportunities; in Experiential Learning, students may pursue opportunities such as study abroad and domestic exchange, civic engagement and service learning, and being a teaching or research assistant; and in Career and Professional Development, they engage in building their professional profile through workshops, internships, student employment, and work experience. Through the portfolio approach of SBS Pathways, students reflect on and communicate over their entire college career on how they are building their own unique integrated whole. To learn more see: https://www.umass.edu/sbs/sbs-pathways-philosophy. SBS Pathways is an integrated approach to advising, curriculum, and resources designed to guide students through the development of their own goals and vision of success as they:
SBS Pathways is a framework for understanding student success as purposeful engagement with the academic, co-curricular, experiential, and professional development aspects of a student’s college education. It’s also an orientation to student support that offers students multiple forms of guidance as they pursue and integrate the various dimensions of their own personal pathways across their entire college experience. |