There are a few steps you can take that will make your transition more smooth however. Two internet resources can help you in choosing your major. There are nine colleges at TAMU that offer undergraduate degrees. Each college is composed of academic departments. For example, the College of Liberal Arts includes English , History , Political Science , Economics , Psychology , Sociology , Anthropology , Speech Communications and Theater Arts, Journalism , and Modern Languages .
Many majors have the same name as the academic department.
However, some departments offer degree options. For example, a degree in Telecommunications and a degree in Industrial Distribution are two of several degrees offered by the Engineering Technology Department. The first step in investigating majors should be to scan the catalogue. Read the introduction for each college because the short name for the college may not reflect the diversity of degree offerings. Select several colleges that seem interesting and read the paragraph that describes each department.