Building Your Success

Upside-Down Curriculum

At most colleges you have to wait until your third or fourth year to take in-depth courses in your major. With Champlain's Upside-Down Curriculum, you'll start taking those core courses from day one. Throughout your four years, you'll supplement these studies with humanities and social science courses from which you'll build a strong foundation for professional advancement or post-graduate study.

If you're an undeclared major, you'll have up to two years before you must decide your program of study. Students use this opportunity to discover new passions and professional options through our many elective courses.

Immersion in Your Chosen Career

Starting on your very first day of class, Champlain's career-driven courses keep you immersed in your major field of study. Our professors are leaders in their field. They bring a real-world perspective to the classroom and help you network with industry professionals. By your third year, while your peers at other colleges have just begun their in-depth major studies, you'll likely be completing a valuable internship in your chosen field.

Great Flexibility With Electives

Champlain's flexible curriculum lets you tailor your studies to your professional goals. Some examples:

• Want to start your own business one day? Earn a Business degree with an emphasis on entrepreneurship.
• Considering a medical-writing career? Add extra science courses to your Professional Writing degree.
• How about investigating white-collar crime? Supplement your degree in Criminal Justice or Computer and Digital Forensics with classes in Accounting.

Internships

Internships are a core component of a Champlain College education. Many schools offer internships, but Champlain places an emphasis on the learning experience that interships offer. In fact, internships are available in nearly all majors.

Working alongside professionals in your chosen field gives you the chance to take the skills you've learned and put them to work in the real world. This insider's view will also allow you to build important connections and secure references to help you land the job you want after graduation. Many times, a good internship can even lead to a job offer.

To learn more about the internships in your major, go to the undergraduate majors page, find your major of interest and read about some of the internships Champlain students have completed.

Honors Program

The Champlain College Honors program is a community of highly motivated students and professors brought together by their shared joy of learning. Honors students take part in a sequence of humanities courses, enriched by one-on-one contact with their professors. By working under close faculty guidance, students can enhance their competence as researchers and communicators.

Honors Program Director, Professor Nancy Nahra, received her MA from Stanford and her PhD from Princeton. A distinguished poet and co-author of several books of history, Dr. Nahra is also Visiting Professor of Humanities at John Cabot University in Rome.

To learn more, visit the Honors program Web site or contact Hadley Abernathy Bunting, the Honors program representative in the Admission Office.