The Beaucoup section writes about what majors or minors they would like to see added to the University’s roster.
Kay Padilla
Office Operations Manager
When I was looking into colleges I would have loved for UL Lafayette to have a degree in meteorology. In my heart of hearts, I want to be a tornado chaser. I love storms, hurricanes, tornadoes and learning everything about atmospheric science.
I was very jealous when LSU announced that they added a bachelor of science in coastal meteorology. I understand the field is not as lucrative as it could be, but it would make sense given our region.
We live in southern Louisiana where hurricanes and weather phenomena get more intense every year. We need to educate more people on how to predict the unpredictable.
I would also love for us to have Cajun French. We need to preserve our dying languages and cultures, and what better school to do it if not the Ragin’ Cajuns. I’m positive students would want to major or minor in that, especially if they were never taught it as children.
Nyria Mustiful
Contributing Writer
I think that the University of Louisiana at Lafayette would benefit from adding interpersonal communication as a major.
The communications department at the University is pretty expansive already, but I think adding this major would provide more help to students in that department. Learning how to relate to others and have respectful, productive conversations is a key skill that could assist anyone.
There are many fields this major can benefit as well. Some of them include public relations, human resources, political campaigning and recruitment. Interpersonal communication is one of the less-valued concentrations within communication, which is odd to me, because I feel that it’s arguably one of the most valuable.
From my internship class this semester, one thing I learned is that most people who have issues within the workplace don’t struggle with producing quality work, but with interpersonal interactions.
Kayla Woods-Crane
Managing Editor
When I read the topic for this week’s Beaucoup, I won’t lie, I was a little stumped. What majors or minors should the University implement? Then, I thought of this recent video I saw of a UCLA student doing a full blown concert performance for a class. I thought the video was so cool because the student had a pop-star level performance with backup dancers, a band and fancy lighting.
This discovery has prompted me to advocate for a music performance major at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Wouldn’t it be cool if music students could learn how to put on an engaging musical performance? Getting familiar with the lights, the dancers and crowd work are all super important if someone wants to be an artist. I’m not sure of the success rates of the students at UCLA in the actual music business, but I think that would be so interesting. I imagine the University could produce some good musical talent and some great performers.
Jenna Kimball
News Writer
I think that the University of Louisiana at Lafayette has a very good variety of majors and minors that they offer for the students.
One thing that I definitely think they should implement is a music education minor. I know that they do offer an arts/ music education major, but I think it would be very interesting to be able to take those courses as a minor, while still being able to do biology or architecture or whatever a student’s major is.
I am a psychology pre-med major so I am required to have a minor in chemistry, however if I had the choice to minor in something different, it would definitely be something in music. Personally, I believe that learning a bit about music is something that could benefit any student, no matter what they want to do for a career in the future.