To change or declare your major(s)/minor(s) or change your adviser(s), contact the department in which you wish to declare your major(s)/minor(s) or
change
your adviser(s) to obtain the appropriate signature(s) on this form. IMPORTANT!! Read the school specific information listed below:
ARTS & SCIENCE (OAS location: 350 Buttrick Hall; email: arts-sci-forms@vanderbilt.edu)
• Students must declare at least one A&S major no later than the Friday prior to spring break of sophomore year.
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Fill out one form to file with each department plus an extra to file with the A&S Office of Academic Services.
• This for
m supersedes all other declarations.
• DECLARING MAJORS
o Students may not add a major(s) past the fifth class day of the first semester of their senior year. Administrative Committee approval is required.
Triple majors require Administrative Committee approval.
o Major declarations and changes will not be processed for a five‐week period around registration each semester. Declarations and changes received after the
last day to withdraw from classes for the semester will be processed after the end of the open enrollment period of registration.
o If dropping a major, obtain adviser’s signature(s), then take one form to the department and one form to the A&S OAS.
o If declaring an interdisciplinary major, in addition to filing this form, you must also complete and file a signed “Interdisciplinary major Course Plan” after
consultation with the interdisciplinary major adviser. The “Course Plan” is available at as.vanderbilt.edu/oas. For individually created majors, a proposal also
must be submitted to and approved by the Committee on Individual Programs.
o Sub‐plans are required for certain major declarations. Please consult with your department for additional information.
• DECLARING MINORS
o Students may not add a minor(s) after the last day of classes in the second semester of their senior year.
o If dropping a minor, obtain adviser’s signature, then take one form to the department and one form to the A&S OAS.
BLAIR (OAS location: Blair Main Office; email: rachel.hobbs@vanderbilt.edu)
• Instrument (concentration/track) is required for most music majors and minors (except performance major, composition major, and music history minor)
CHANGE OF MAJOR FOR BACHELOR OF MUSIC DEGREE should include Blair paperwork.
Associate Dean’s approval is required to change primary major in the Bachelor of Music, in addition to the following:
Composition Major: Composition/Theory Depart
ment Chair approval required
Musical Arts Degree: Studio advisor approval required
Integrated Studies/Teacher Education Majors: performance area head and Teacher Education Coordinator approval required
Performance and Integrated Studies Majors: Studio advisor and performance area head approval required (NOTE: if studio advisor is the performance area
head, another member of the department should provide second departmental approval)
ENGINEERING (OAS location: 104 Featheringill Hall; email: engineering-oas@vanderbilt.edu)
PEABODY (OAS location: 215 Peabody Administration Building; email: peabodyacademicservices@vanderbilt.edu)
Revised February 2021
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