The approach
Choosing a major by process of elimination and informed sampling beats choosing by anxiety. The workshops walk you through what different majors actually involve day to day, what careers they open, and how to test-drive one with an intro course, a club, or an informational interview.
No rush, but not forever
Most programs want you to declare by the end of the second year so the degree still fits in four. Exploratory advisors help you use the time deliberately — take a strategic intro course each term, talk to people in the field — rather than drifting to a deadline.
In and around Porter Falls
Support at Porter is deliberately clustered on the first two levels of Halvorsen Library so a student can move from one kind of help to another without leaving the building or re-explaining the situation. Walk-in hours run late Monday through Thursday during the semester, and everything can also be booked through MyPorter.
The practical details
For: New students without a major, and students considering a change. Includes: A short interests-and-strengths inventory, panels with faculty and students from different majors, and one-on-one exploratory advising. A course option: A one-credit major-and-career exploration seminar in the first year. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Student Success Center (Halvorsen Library, Level 1). Call (715) 555–0170 or email success@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.