- It's all in the name, discover us, discover science,
you're discovering who you are,
it allows you to do the things that you wanna do
while you do the things that are also required.
- The Discover programs are important
because they allow students the time and ability to explore
what piques their interest,
nudges their talents and taps into gifts and passions.
It allows students the flexibility to engage in courses
that have a wide range of topics and subject areas,
stretching and challenging minds
to think deeply and broadly.
- You get an overview of all that's out there,
we got to look at
not only what kind of majors we wanna be in,
but also what kind of jobs
those majors would provide for us.
- The Discover programs in the College of Arts and Sciences
allows students to explore majors in the fine arts,
the humanities, the social sciences
and the natural sciences.
- As an advisor for the Discover program
at the University of Dayton.
We help students explore different majors
while staying on track to graduate in four years.
- Your advisor is super helpful too,
because you're constantly having that conversation like,
oh, like, what am I interested in?
But also what do I still need to complete for my degrees,
so like those CAP requirements,
they were ways for me to like still complete those
but also explore things that I was interested in.
- You're working directly with your advisor on campus,
you see them twice a week,
and it's an incredible opportunity
to be able to talk to them
and see them on a regular basis.
- The program allows students
to build meaningful, trusting relationships with faculty
and staff, who will help shape their path,
not only here at UD,
but long after they graduate.
- Being able to talk about the different interests
you have on campus and the different opportunities
that might be presented to you on campus,
it's great to have that sort of mentor to look up to.
- Each student is assigned an advisor
in attendance of first year seminar
that provides information about possible majors,
as well as other information
to help them build skills for success in college.
- It has given me the chance
to not only reach out to different adults
but as well as students
who are coming into these Discover programs
and are wondering what are they gonna do with their lives.
- Through the Discover program,
I got a more in depth look at what that means
for UD specifically
because coming in like I knew what English was,
I knew what history was
in the context of like the classes I took in high school.
But that doesn't even begin to scratch the surface
of like what that is at UD.
- The Discover programs
offer a tremendous amount of support
to a whole student,
adjusting their college life in and out of the classroom,
discovering their interests
and beginning their vocational journey.
Finding what there calling is to contribute
to the greater good of society.
- Once they taught me different ways to study
and different resources I could go to,
I was able to better myself not only as a student,
but as a person.
- These programs expose students to all majors,
even majors they may never have considered
and help them discover their path.
- History, English, Religious studies and Philosophy
and they all get at that question in different ways,
but they're all very necessary
and they are very interdisciplinary
and they connect and I just love that,
like I felt like I was having epiphanies.
- Many resources are available on campus
to help students find a major
that they are passionate about.
- At first I thought, I wanted to major in accounting,
it turns out that's not what I wanna do at all,
but like I'm still on track to graduate on time
while getting to do things that I may possibly wanna do.
- Coming to college in general
can be a really scary process,
so to have those different resources on campus
and have the ability to see everything
that's like offered to you on campus.
I think I was so grateful for that.
- The Discover program helps students
to find what it is they feel they have been called to do,
by identifying talents, gifts, passions,
and how they coincide with a realistic approach
to finding a major.
- Discover program is a great example of like,
you can take time to decide, that is totally fine.
- It gives you a better foundation.
- This is definitely one of the greatest choices I've made
in my life.