Your Major

Academic Program Overviews

Academic Program Overviews for each major provide you with an overview of each major, special features about the major, and career opportunities in that field. You will also find department contact information and a link to department home pages.

Seeing an Adviser

There are four types of advisers at SDSU, including Academic Advising Center advisers, major/faculty advisers, EOP advisers, and preprofessional advisers.

Major/faculty advisers for each major are available to help you plan your upper division course schedule, and provide you with advice about career options and graduate school. The Directory of Advisers provides a list of major advisers, preprofessional advisers, Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) advisers, and Athletics advisers.

Declare/Change Your Major

Students must officially declare a major before they can graduate from SDSU. To declare or change your major, you must file a “Declaration of Major” form with the Office of the Registrar. You will be held to major requirements in the General Catalog that are in effect at the time you declare your major. Refer to the Declare/Change Your Major page for details.

Major Academic Plans

Major Academic Plans (MAPs) were created to help SDSU first-time freshmen navigate the course requirements for their majors. The MAP for your major will help you identify which General Education course will also fulfill a major preparation course requirement. They will also suggest sequencing to ensure that you complete prerequisites for an upper-division course prior to taking the higher-level course.

Impacted Majors

Many majors at SDSU have more students wanting to declare that major than can be accommodated. As such, they are designated as impacted majors. All students who are admitted to SDSU and want to declare an impacted major are placed in a premajor or a major (if all requirements are met at time of admission).

All premajors must meet department-specific criteria to move from the premajor to the major, such as a specified minimum grade point average, completion of prerequisite courses, tests, and completion of a certain number of units.

Refer to the General Catalog for impaction criteria or visit www.sdsu.edu/impactedmajors.