​​​The mapping and meta-majors design team held five inquiry group sessions in the fall 2018 semester. The groups consisted of faculty, classified staff, administrators, and students. The information gathered at these workgroups was used to create the first iteration of meta-majors for Citrus College. We asked teams of two to four people to group Citrus College's degrees and certificates into natural categories and to name them. We found faculty, classified staff and administrators largely agreed upon both terminology and groupings, while the students used unique language and were more likely to group diverse programs together.

Based on the data from the 30 sorting teams (comprised of approximately 110 individuals), the design team worked to create meta-majors that both honored the student perspective and functionally worked well together.

Also based on the data collected at the inquiry groups, meta-majors have been named Career and Academic Pathways (CAPs).

Three guiding principles helped the design team in refining the CAPs:

• Each CAP is grouped with related career paths
• Each CAP will have the same (or close) math and English requirements for degree programs
• Students' first two semesters would be as generic as possible so as to count toward any - or most - degree programs in a CAP.