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The School of Undergraduate Studies serves students by sustaining a dynamic common curriculum and enriching the undergraduate experience through innovative advising, learning communities, interdisciplinary programs, and undergraduate research. FIGs in Undergraduate Studies offer students the chance to explore different interests, majors, and career paths during their first semester. If you are interested in enrolling a UGS FIG, please talk to your advisor, or call the Center for Strategic Advising at 512-232-8400.

For a PDF version of the UGS FIG clusters listed below, please download our School of Undergraduate Studies brochure.

UGS FIGs

Brave New World

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
UGS 303 Freedom: Philosophy, History, Law

World Wide Health

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
CH 301 Principles of Chemistry I
UGS 303 Global Inequalities & Health

Today’s Caregivers

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
CH 301 Principles of Chemistry I
UGS 303 Global Inequalities & Health

The Nursing Profession

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
SSC 302 Data Analysis for the Health Sciences
UGS 303 Chemistry and the Environment

A Scientific Mind

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
M 408C Differential and Integral Calculus
UGS 303 Chemistry and the Environment

Creativity + Skill = Engineering

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
M 408C Differential and Integral Calculus
UGS 303 Disaster Movies

Building Tomorrow Today

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
ARC 308 Architecture and Society
UGS 303 Social Scientific Imagination

The Economics of Business

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
ECO 304K Introduction to Microeconomics
UGS 303 Org Corruption & Org Control

Art of Communicating in the Business World

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
CMS 315M Interpersonal Communication Theory
UGS 303 Ideas of the Twentieth Century

Movie Makers

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
UGS 303 Exiled to Hollywood

Business: Suits, Money, Power

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
ECO 304K Introduction to Microeconomics
UGS 303 Grey is Good

The Art of Communication

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
CMS 315M Interpersonal Communication Theory
UGS 303 Language & Individual Style

Visible Speech

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
J 301F Fundamental Issues in Journalism
UGS 303 Visible Speech

The Freedom to Explore

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
CH 301 Principles of Chemistry I
UGS 303 Freedom: Philosophy, History, Law

The Eyes of Texas

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
TD 301 Introduction to Theater
UGS 303 Music/Art/Ritual Mexican Catholicism

Business and Communication

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
CMS 315M Interpersonal Communication Theory
UGS 303 Organization Corruption and Control

Health Professions

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
CH 301 Introduction to Chemistry I
UGS 303 Fitness for Life

Mind, Body, and Health Care

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
UGS 303 Global Inequality and Health

Society vs. Culture

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
UGS 303 Music/Art/Ritual Mexican Catholicism

Volcano

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
UGS 303 Geology in the Movies

Where Does Your Education Come From?

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
UGS 303 US Public Education: Promise & Peril

Poverty in the Media

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
UGS 303 Poverty in America in Non-Fiction and Film

Poverty: Fact or Fiction

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
UGS 303 Poverty in America in Non-Fiction and Film

Life: Social, Equity, Economy, & Environment

UGS 018 First-Year Interest Group SMNRUGS
UGS 303 Sustaining a Planet