Diversify Your Education Portfolio!

Double majors & minors, electives, experiential learning

Investment counselors recommend diversifying your economic accounts to maximize your opportunities. The same is true of your liberal arts education. College life prepares you for more than your first job. With a diversified, wide-ranging education at Loras College, you will be better prepared for a life of ongoing active learning and reflecting, citizenship in the community, and informed, ethical decision-making. In addition, a broad-based liberal arts education develops the thinking skills and wider vision that drives professional success once you have that “first job”—and beyond.

The general education curriculum at Loras College helps develop this broad base of learning. In addition, the program provides you with plenty of elective credit hours to create double major and minor combinations that suit your individual needs and tastes, and best prepare you for a changing world.

Among the links from this page, you will find frequent, related, and diversifying double major and minor combinations. Some combinations connect related fields. Other approaches encourage diversifying your education portfolio by combining professional and liberal arts majors and minors as preparation for an increasingly diverse and changing world. Talk with an academic advisor to find out why various double-major or minors have been recommended.

Instead of double-majoring or minoring, some students will choose elective coursework to complement their majors and round out their liberal arts education. Choose electives that interest and challenge you. Imagine what combinations of knowledge, experience, and extra-curricular activities and service will make your personal and professional life more satisfying and successful.

Finally, many students will devote a semester of electives to experiential learning, in the form of Study Abroad or off-site internships. Loras College offers special programs of Study Abroad in Ireland and semester-long internships in Chicago, among others.

Enjoy your futures!