Selecting Majors and Changing Majors [PMU System Design]

Many students will have already chosen their majors when they enroll in the PMU. However, it is likely that some of them will change their minds for a variety of reasons. Students need to be aware of the consequences of changing their majors as far as degree specific requirements are concerned.
Many times students are unsure of their majors when they enroll in a university. Since the curriculum for all majors at the PMU are strictly structured, students will need to decide by at least the end of their freshman year what their majors will be. Since only a few courses are taken for specific majors during the freshman year, there is opportunity for substitutions within the core for students who are undecided. Advisors will be needed to determine the best course of action for these students and warn them about getting too far behind with math and science requirements unique to certain majors.

The Need to Choose Core Courses Carefully

All students at the PMU are required to take eight hours of physical sciences. The choices are Introductory Biology, Introductory Chemistry, Chemistry for Engineers I, Chemistry for Engineers II, Introduction to Physical Geology, Introductory Physics, Physics for Engineers I, and Physics for Engineers II. It is obvious that students going into any of the engineering majors should take the chemistry and physics courses designated for engineers; other majors choose introductory courses. However, if a student who initially intended to major in Business Administration decides he wants to switch to Civil Engineering and has not taken the proper core science courses, he will have to take those courses before progressing to courses for which those courses are prerequisites.