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The College of Professional Studies (CPS) at UWSP was created in the early 1970's to house many of the campus's pre-professional programs. With majors in CPS as diverse as education, interior architecture, dietetics, health sciences, health promotion, athletic training, or clinical lab sciences, you may wonder what we have in common.

Preparation for a profession is the answer. Pre-professional programs typically require a lot of supervised and graded practicum experiences/labs, where for instance, athletic training students actually tape ankles or education students tutor 6th graders. Practicums and labs help students to affirm their interest in the major (It is one thing to think you want to be in interior design and another to produce complicated designs for a nursing home). These hands-on experiences also help the faculty to see if the students can actually DO the job well, not just talk about it.

Pre-Professional majors require students to work a semester or longer actually on the job in an apprentice role, where they are graded by both University faculty and the practitioners under whom they work. This culminating experience is called different things by different majors: student teaching, internship, externship, or clinical experiences. CPS students achieve acceptance into prestigious internships at a rate higher than the national average.

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