Majors & Minors
With the liberal arts education you receive at Southern Virginia, you’ll be equipped with general knowledge and understanding of the letters, arts and sciences. After you receive that solid foundation you can choose to focus your studies in one of our 13 majors and 16 minors.
Majors
Advisement Tracks
|
Minors
|
The Southern Virginia Core
The majors and minors at Southern Virginia University extend the knowledge and skills acquired in the Southern Virginia Core, and prepare students to be successful in graduate school and the workplace.
We encourage students to postpone declaring a major until after their first year. Once they have taken several classes in the Core and have been exposed to a variety of disciplines, they are ready to refine and deepen their skills by selecting and pursuing a major course of study.
What is The Core?
The Southern Virginia Core provides a common intellectual foundation for all Southern Virginia students. With courses like Reason and the Self, America and the Enlightenment and Classics of Western Literature, the Core focuses on great artistic, literary, philosophical, political, scientific, and social achievements, comparing these when appropriate with insights of the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Core courses emphasize careful writing, critical thinking and analytic reasoning. Students discuss, write and present on issues of the highest importance to humanity thereby preparing themselves to be articulate and knowledgeable leader-servants. Learn more about the Southern Virginia Core.