The AAC offers specialized advising for Trinity and Pratt students of all class years and majors in four specialized areas. You can meet with any of the Directors of Academic Engagement, and the Global, Civic and Cross-Disciplinary Advisor as often as you want. Learn more about them below.
Arts & Humanities
Broadly conceived, the humanities disciplines use historical, philosophical, and artistic approaches to study the human condition in all its facets. Humanistic and artist knowledge plays a crucial part in the education of the individual; the pursuit, creation, and theorization of meaning; and qualitative analyses of social systems and cultural practices.
Discover all the arts and humanities departments and programs at Duke.
Natural & Quantitative Sciences
Natural Sciences are the branches of study that explore natural phenomena using data and other evidence from observations and experiments to understand the world, and includes both life and physical sciences. In order the understand the natural science field (and many others), quantitative approaches using statistical, computational, or mathematical methods are often utilized.
Discover all the natural and quantitative sciences departments and programs at Duke.
Social Sciences
The social sciences explore the patterns of human behavior, and researchers in these disciplines study a wide array of topics from the intricacies of complex social structures to the grand mechanisms of intercultural exchange. With such a vast scope of study, the social sciences make use of several methodological approaches and analyze both qualitative and quantitative data sets.
Discover all the social science departments and programs at Duke.
What we do for students
- Explain key differences between programs and departments to help you find what's right for you
- Share co-curricular opportunities linked to your interests, including some you might not hear of otherwise
- Recommend faculty members for you to get to know (and coach you on how to approach them)
- Make suggestions on how and when to get involved in research
- Help you set goals, reflect and prioritize to get the most from your time at Duke
Students typically OPT in to see a Specialized Advisor when they have questions like these:
- "I'm torn between a couple different fields or opportunities, and I don't know how to decide"
- "What should I do with my summer?"
- "I love this major, but I don't know what I can do with it career wise"
- "Everybody around me is talking about getting involved in research, but I don't actually know what that means"