What does it mean to be Exploratory at Georgia Southern?
As an Exploratory student you may be getting a lot of questions from people about what you want your major to be and you might be feeling a little overwhelmed thinking about how you will make this decision. Georgia Southern is a great place to explore all of your options and we are here to help you along in the decision-making process! At Georgia Southern, we organize majors into Focus Areas, which are clusters of majors that share a lot of characteristics and overlap in coursework. You can choose to be Exploratory in one of our nine Focus Areas.
Declaring an Exploratory Focus Area can help you by:
- narrowing down your interest and choices
- providing opportunities to take classes that lead you into a range of related majors
- helping to keep you on the path for graduating on time
- Exploratory Arts
- Exploratory Behavioral & Social Sciences
- Exploratory Business
- Exploratory Computing
- Exploratory Education
- Exploratory Engineering
- Exploratory Health Professions
- Exploratory Humanities
- Exploratory Science & Mathematics
Meet Your Advisor
- Armstrong Campus – Jakeyvia White (jjwhite@georgiasouthern.edu)
- Academic Advisor 鈥� Armstrong Campus
- Liberty Campus – Richard Garcia (rgarcia@georgiasouthern.edu) & Kathy Shepherd (kshepherd@georgiasouthern.edu)
- Statesboro Campus – Richard Garcia (rgarcia@georgiasouthern.edu) & Kathy Shepherd (kshepherd@georgiasouthern.edu)