{"id":22956,"date":"2017-06-20T09:37:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T13:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/?page_id=22956"},"modified":"2025-08-20T11:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:12:24","slug":"special-academic-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/academics\/undergraduate-education\/special-academic-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Academic Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color:#cc0000;\">Dive deeper into your academic interests.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The College of Arts &amp; Sciences offers students a broad range of special academic opportunities in addition to their major. Here are some of the highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conduct <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/academics\/undergraduate-education\/special-academic-opportunities\/student-research\/\">original research<\/a> alongside a faculty mentor<\/li>\n<li>or pursue independent research under the guidance of a faculty member through our<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/academics\/undergraduate-education\/special-academic-opportunities\/directed-study\/\">Directed Study program<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get an<span>\u00a0<\/span>internship<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/student-life\/undergraduate-students\/ospl\/internships\/\">within CAS<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/academics\/undergraduate-education\/special-academic-opportunities\/internships\/\">outside of BU<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Design an interdisciplinary course of study that is uniquely tailored to your interests and goals with an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/academics\/undergraduate-education\/special-academic-opportunities\/independent-major-or-minor\/\">independent major and minor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/academics\/undergraduate-education\/special-academic-opportunities\/study-abroad\/\">Study abroad<\/a> in one of more than 20 countries<\/li>\n<li>Broaden your view and deepen your understanding of the world through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/academics\/undergraduate-education\/special-academic-opportunities\/core-curriculum\/\">Core Curriculum<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Earn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/academics\/undergraduate-education\/special-academic-opportunities\/honors-in-the-major\/\">honors in your major<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Work with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/academics\/undergraduate-education\/academic-advising\/advising\/pre-professional-advising\/\">pre-health and pre-law advisors<\/a> to prepare for a career in medicine or law<\/li>\n<li>Learn one of more than 25<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/academics\/undergraduate-education\/special-academic-opportunities\/language-learning-at-cas\/\">languages offered at BU<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Explore what it means to be human with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/academics\/undergraduate-education\/special-academic-opportunities\/humanities\/\">humanities courses and degree programs<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Work in\u00a0cutting-edge laboratories and interact with leading thinkers in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/academics\/undergraduate-education\/special-academic-opportunities\/sustainability\/\">environmental science and sustainability<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Explore\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/academics\/undergraduate-education\/special-academic-opportunities\/global\/\">global topics of study<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>in almost every discipline, from World Languages &amp;\u00a0Literature to Religion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dive deeper into your academic interests. The College of Arts &amp; Sciences offers students a broad range of special academic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3521,"featured_media":0,"parent":131,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22956"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86367,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22956\/revisions\/86367"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}