Selecting a Major

Your Major gives your Apprenticeship a sustained area of specialised study. A Minor is optional and provides a further defined course of study alongside it. Each selection uses a fixed list of required courses, so reviewing that list is part of making an informed choice.

Apprentices may select a Major and Minor from academic Level II. Open Major & Minor Selection from School resources in your Grimoire. If your account is not yet eligible, the page explains the access requirement.

Review the available programmes

Begin with the Major selection step. Use the department controls to explore the available programmes and open a programme to read its description and required courses. The requirements are organised by academic level, allowing you to look beyond your immediate next course and consider the direction of the whole programme.

Completed courses are identified in the requirement preview. This helps you understand how work already on your record contributes to a proposed selection. Courses shared by the Major and Minor appear once in the combined list, with their requirement relationships shown. The display does not award the same course's academic credits twice.

Choose a Major and optional Minor

When you have reviewed a Major, use Choose this major to add it to your proposed selection. Continue to the Minor step to review an optional Minor in the same way. Use Continue without a minor if you do not wish to select one.

At this stage, you are assembling a proposed course of study. Your existing saved selections remain in place until you complete the final confirmation. You can return to an earlier step to compare another programme or discard the proposed changes.

Review and confirm

Open Review requirements to inspect the combined course list for your proposed Major and Minor. Select each academic level as needed and review any warnings shown by the page. A missing or unavailable course record may require School review before a selection can be confirmed.

Proceed to the confirmation screen when satisfied, review the changes, and use its final save control. Wait for a successful confirmation before leaving the page. The saved selections then inform your Academic History study plan and the Major and Minor options in the Grimoire catalogue.

Use View current requirements to return to the course list for your saved selections. This is useful when planning further study or checking a prerequisite before registration.

Revisiting a selection

You may change your Major or Minor without a penalty under the School's existing selection policy. Completed coursework remains on your academic record, although a different programme may require courses you have not yet taken. Review the new list before confirming rather than assuming every completed course will meet the new specialisation's requirements.

The selection page operates within your programme's eligibility and tuition provisions. Standard Apprenticeship tuition covers one Major and one Journeyman Letter; provisions for additional formal pathways and pupils already working on an eligible second Major are described in the academic handbook. Selecting a Minor does not create a second Major.

For advice about how a proposed change affects your programme, contact the Master of Studies before confirming it.