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What Can I Do with a Major In?
The Career and Counseling Center provides a variety of resources to explore career options related to specific academic programs. Check out the following on-campus and Internet resources.

NWU Majors
Information about all NWU majors can be found below. Click on any major for a printable version of career options for that discipline.

Resources in the Career and Counseling Center
Alumni Career Assistance Network
The Career Assistance Network (CAN) consists of more than 1,100 Wesleyan alumni who offer you an excellent opportunity for exploring career options. Please note that this service is only available from computers located on the NWU campus. If you cannot access a campus computer, contact the Career and Counseling Center for assistance.

CAN can be used in a variety of ways:

• Search through the profiles of alumni by major to see what Wesleyan graduates have done with their academic backgrounds;
• Contact alumni by e-mail, phone, or in person to visit about their careers, their employers, or their graduate school experiences;
• Shadow an alum for a day to see what their work and workplace is really like.

Career Library
The career library in the Career and Counseling Center has a number of books which explore career options related to specific majors. Books can be checked out for two days.

Undergraduate Major Mentors
Each academic department at Nebraska Wesleyan has selected upperclass representatives to visit with students about their academic majors and the career fields they are pursuing. Click on the link above to see a listing of advisors, their majors, and their e-mail addresses. A list of questions is provided to guide you in interviewing an Undergraduate Major Mentor, whether in person or by e-mail.

Resources on the Internet
Most of the following sites ask you to choose a major in which you are interested, then link you to occupational information relevant to that major. Some sites also offer links to related web sites by major, or link directly to information about specific majors.

Career Profile Search
A service of the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

What Can I Do With a Major In...?
Maintained by UNCW.

Mathematical Sciences Career Information
Funded by the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Careers in Psychology
This page, by Marky Lloyd, is maintained as part of Psych Web.

Sloan Career Cornerstone Center
An ever-expanding resource for exploring career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, computing, and medicine.