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Career Guides

Wondering what career choices you have with your major? 

Each Career Guide highlights curriculum requirements, as well as skills and abilities that may be developed and applied through each course of study. To complement the academic information, a range of interesting occupational opportunities are listed as a starting point for considering how academic experiences may translate to professional work settings. For additional information about the Career Guides, please use the contact information provided.

The Career Guide series represents a collaborative effort between The Career Center and numerous academic units.

The following career guides were all updated in 2011.

  • Afroamerican and African Studies
  • American Culture
  • Anthropology
  • Art & Design
  • Asian Languages and Cultures
  • Astronomy
  • Biology
  • Chemistry
  • Classical Studies
  • Communication Studies
  • Comparative Literature
  • Computer Science
  • Earth & Environmental Sciences
  • Economics
  • English
  • Environment, Program in the
  • Germanic Languages and Literatures
  • History
  • History of Art
  • Informatics
  • International Studies
  • Judaic Studies
  • Latin American & Caribbean Studies
  • Linguistics
  • Mathematics
  • Middle Eastern and North African Studies
  • Near Eastern Studies
  • Nursing
  • Organizational Studies
  • Philosophy
  • Physics
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Public Policy
  • Romance Languages and Literatures
  • Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
  • Screen Arts & Cultures
  • Slavic Languages and Literatures
  • Sociology
  • Statistics
  • Survey Methodology/Survey Research
  • Theatre and Drama
  • Women's Studies

Women's Studies

FROM STUDY TO SKILLS

All academic programs offered at the UM help students develop valuable transferable skills. Women’s Studies aims to bridge gender, racial, economic, religious, and national divides; create knowledge about women, gender, race, and sexuality; challenge power inequities; and improve the lives of women and men.

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Theatre and Drama

FROM STUDY TO SKILLS

All academic programs offered at the UM help students develop valuable transferable skills. In bringing together the talents of writers, performers, designers, and technical experts, the LSA Program in Theatre and Drama offers a comprehensive artistic preparation that can be applied to a variety of fields. Students interested in Actor, Director, or Designer training may audition for the Theatre B.F.A. degrees through the School of Music.

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Survey Methodology/Survey Research

FROM STUDY TO SKILLS

Survey Methodology studies sources of error in surveys—the bias and variability that affect the quality of survey data. As a field of knowledge, a profession, and a science, survey methodology seeks to link the principles of survey design, collection, processing, and analysis to an understanding of error.

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Statistics

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Sociology

FROM STUDY TO SKILLS

All academic programs offered at the UM help students develop valuable transferable skills. Sociology is the study of human social activity, relationships, and social structures.  In our increasingly diverse world, the study of sociology gives you the skills 21st century workers need: critical and analytical thinking, writing ability, cultural competence, and self-awareness. Mastering the basics of sociology teaches you to understand the situations of people different than you, another advantage in this rapidly globalizing world.

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Slavic Languages and Literatures

FROM STUDY TO SKILLS

All academic programs at the UM help students develop valuable transferable skills. A concentration in Russian or Polish will allow you to attain proficiency in the language, acquire an understanding of the culture, and develop your knowledge of the civilization and history of a significant area of the world. Through course offerings in other Slavic languages and literatures, you will expand your learning to much of Eastern European culture. A concentration in Russian or Polish also provides opportunities for experiential learning abroad.

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Screen Arts and Cultures

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Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

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All academic programs offered at the UM help students develop valuable transferable skills. The University of Michigan Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES) is dedicated to advancing and disseminating interdisciplinary knowledge about the peoples, nations, and cultures of Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Eurasia, past and present. In our increasingly global world, the breadth offered by a CREES concentration makes it an ideal liberal arts major.

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Romance Languages and Literatures

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Public Policy

FROM STUDY TO SKILLS

All academic programs offered at the UM help students develop valuable transferable skills. The Ford School bachelor’s degree program is a competitive interdisciplinary program open to qualified students interested in national and global policy challenges. Students apply during their sophomore year and transfer to the Ford School their junior and senior years. Fifty to sixty students are admitted each year.

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