Your Senior Year

You've made it to your senior year--congratulations! Here are some things to think about as you complete your final year at BSC and as you prepare to head out into the world. Check out these links.

Things you need to do now:

Be certain you're on track for graduation

• See the General Education grad check list
• Count your cultural credits
• Have a final grad check. Contact Dr. Judith Cox for an appointment
• Remember that courses are available through BACHE (in the BSC Catalog), if you need that resource

Plan for your senior Exploration Term

• Do study-travel with our faculty, or an internship, or complete your senior project:

Visit the Career Counseling Center

• For career and job search information
• Résumé building, résumé writing, composing the perfect cover letter
• Consider an internship

Plan for graduate or professional school or for taking a year off

• Talk with career counseling and your advisor about graduate programs; secure recommendation letters from your professors
• Graduate school information
• Post-graduate scholarship opportunities
• Consider taking a year off before graduate school
• Teach English abroad
• Work abroad for a couple of years
• Volunteer

Things you should be thinking about:

Your Senior Project and Senior Conference

• Discuss the Senior Conference with your advisor; funding is available; you and your advisor must complete a verification form after this event

Attend Honors Day

Prepare for Commencement

• Lots of activities
• Attend the Capping Ceremony and the President's Champagne Toast to Seniors
• Honors at Graduation (in the BSC Catalog)
• Honoraries (in the BSC Catalog)
• Order your BSC ring
• At Commencement, you'll become a BSC Alum

Things to do before you leave Birmingham:

• Go to the Birmingham Museum of Art: see the world-famous Wedgewood collection; have lunch in the café
• Tour the Civil Rights Institute
• Visit the Birmingham Zoo
• Stroll around the Birmingham Botanical Gardens
• See Arlington, the antebellum home in our neighborhood
• Climb Vulcan, see Vulcan's butt up close and personal
• Visit Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
• Climb Ruffner Mountain
• Take in the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame

After your last class, ring the bell on top of the Humanities Building

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Student Spotlight:

A senior moment

Here we profile two outstanding graduating seniors.

Campus Spotlight:

Honors Day 2012

BSC celebrated the academic achievements and leadership roles of students, faculty, and staff.