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Living on East Campus, first-year students
are an easy walk away from Durham's
Ninth Street shopping and dining district,
a popular weekend destination.
First-year courses ~ Dates & deadlines
Your advisor ~ Advisor directory
Advising resources ~ Your dean
Choosing a major ~ Declaring a major
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Advising resources
You should not rely exclusively on one person for all the information you need about your academic life at Duke. While your advisor will probably be the person you talk to most often about your class schedules, grades, and academic plans, we encourage you to take advantage of other people on campus for specialized and personalized advice.
Your academic dean can help you to:
- Understand academic procedures in Trinity College
- Manage a problem with a course or instructor
- Access academic support services
- Deal with a personal or family emergency
- Withdraw from a course
- Take a leave of absence
- Submit requests to reschedule final exams
- Arrange for an incomplete
- Get pre-approval for transfer course work
- Learn more about Program II and interdepartmental majors
Your prehealth advisor can help you to:
- Learn about required courses for medical, dental or veterinary school
- Schedule prehealth coursework while also accommodating major and other graduation requirements
- Prepare for the application process by taking advantage of experiential learning opportunities on and off campus
Pregraduate, prebusiness and prelaw advisors can help you to:
- Understand required course work (if any)
- Plan course schedules appropriately
- Discover ways to gain necessary experience
- Prepare for the application process
Directors of undergraduate studies (DUS) can help you to:
- Understand the requirements of majors/minors offered in their department or program
- Learn about mentored research opportunities
- Get pre-approval for transfer course work including study abroad
- Find out about career and graduate school options
Staff in the Office of Study Abroad can help you to:
- Explore study abroad programs
- Understand study abroad eligibility requirements
- Complete the application process
- Decide on the right program(s) for you
- Determine how courses taken abroad can be used toward your degree requirements
Your professors can help you to:
- Find opportunities for research or independent study
- Learn more about a discipline or subject that could lead to a major, minor or certificate program
- Improve your approach to reviewing material, writing and studying