CAS | Tourtraining

CAS students take classes across campus, and this building (Old Mill) is one of them!
- Seminar-style rooms used from first-year to senior year.
CAS is the largest of the 7 undergraduate colleges, but it is still tight-knit. It offers the close-knit community and accessible nature of a smaller liberal arts school PLUS the resources and collaboration of a much larger research university.
Dedicated faculty:
- CAS has dedicated faculty who genuinely want to get to know students and support their educational goals.
- Office hours - professors want you to drop in to ask questions
- Research is available to all students, regardless of discipline - from the hard sciences to the humanities - professors are excited to work alongside CAS students.
Small communities:
- TAP (Teacher-Advisor Program) -- TAP is a writing-intensive elective program for first-year students in CAS. In the fall semester, students enroll in one TAP seminar on a topic of common interest. The professor, who also serves as an academic advisor, helps further explore a student's interests and academic goals.
- LASP (Liberal Arts Scholars Program) -- LASP is a residential learning community for first-year CAS students. Students live in the same residence hall together, and they take 3-5 courses together. LASP offers six separate options, in the humanities, fine arts, social sciences, the earth and environment, world languages and the natural sciences.
Lots of disciplines to explore!
- 50+ majors and 80+ minors

Undecided in CAS? There is a full-time dedicated academic advisor (Kim Hughes) who can support students through the process of selecting a major. She hosts events and connects them to campus resources such as the Major Fair and the internship program. 40% come into CAS undecided, and they receive this specific advisor that works with undecided students.

CAS Classes
- For my Geography Qualitative Research Methods class we were studying how to do a landscape analysis, so to practice we went up into the Old Mill tower and did a landscape analysis of Burlington from above. -Darcy Eliot
- A bunch of advos where in a class with Poli Sci where we conducted research on how media shapes peoples political perceptions. For example watching game of thrones makes people distrust government. For our project we actually researched what people where watching in the beginning of COVID quarantine and how that affected their perceptions of the pandemic. It was so cool to do a event that was surrounding us everyday and conduct a giant research project with the class (had like 1,000 research participants.) We might even get published. - Owen Doherty
TAP Program
- My first year my Tap Professor (Jan Feldman) was amazing we and she not only got to know each other in class, but also outside of class as well. She would tell us about her 2 donkeys (Aristotle & Plato) and about her farm. She even brought her dog in on the last day and took us to the top of the Old Mill tower. -Owen Doherty