Brown and White Vol. 134 no. 20

              The Brown and White Vol. 134 No. 20
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
By KENDALL COUGHLIN
B&W Staff
As the student body continues to
grow in size and diversity, some
of Lehigh’s colleges have introduced
new major and minor programs to
accommodate changing demands
and interests.
After three years of finding faculty
and accommodating changes, Latin
American and Latino studies, health,
medicine and society, and Japanese
— which were previously offered as
minors through the College of Arts
and Sciences — were transformed
into majors last fall.
Donald Hall, the outgoing dean of
CAS, said he is excited about the new
major programs, which have been in
the making for a long time.
“It’s a demand from students who
are minoring in the program that
wanted the opportunity to follow it
through for the entire four years
and have it on their transcript,” Hall
said.
Since all three minors were
extremely popular, Hall expected the
demand for these majors would be in
the dozens.
Beth Pelton, the undergraduate
program manager for CAS, said
mid-semester data shows that, as of
April 17, Latin American and Latino
studies has no declared majors but
13 minors; health, medicine and soci-ety
has 56 majors and 195 minors;
and Japanese has two majors and 21
minors. This data does not include
students who might have declared
one of these majors or minors after
April 17.
“Since it was just registration,
that means there are plenty more
recent major and minor declarations
out there that are unaccounted for,”
Pelton said.
Hall said enrollment is expected
to increase across the majors as time
goes on.
The College of Business and
Economics is also planning to intro-duce
two new minors next year —
FinTech and a data analysis minor
— that will be available to students
to combine with the various majors
throughout Lehigh.
The undergraduate offices from
Lehigh’s four colleges sponsor var-ious
events throughout the year to
raise awareness of their major pro-grams,
such as the major fair at
the beginning of the semester and
most recently, Major Appreciation
Declaration Day.
The business college hosted Major
Appreciation Declaration Day on
See MAJORS Page 4
STUDENTS CELEBRATE SPRING AT HOLI FESTIVAL
Benjamin Wang/B&W Staff
The Hindu celebration Holi, hosted by the Indian Students Association, took place on the UC front lawn on Saturday. The event is also known as the Festival of Colors and takes place every
year to mark the beginning of spring.
New majors, minors introduced in CAS and CBE