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I am wondering whether any of you have designed your own major at your college, or plan to do so? I'm just curious about your experience. At my college (Smith), I know that it was possible to do this, but I knew of only a couple people who did. The two self-designed majors I remember hearing about there were Society and the Moving Picture and something like psychoneurobiology.

By Welshie (Welshie) on Saturday, June 12, 2004 - 02:57 am: Edit

I'm thinking about it. I don't know if I'll go through with it but I might have a more "open" major. Say... combing neurobiology with math. The hesitation lies in the fact that this might just be a tangent of mine and within a few weeks I could grow tired of it.

-Jesse.

By Middleofnowhere (Middleofnowhere) on Saturday, June 12, 2004 - 11:45 am: Edit

Criminal Justice and Social Work

By Trackstar (Trackstar) on Saturday, June 12, 2004 - 12:29 pm: Edit

At my school, we do it a lot.
From this year's commencement program...

Museum Education and Human Interaction
Peaceful Communication in Religion and the Church
Expressive Communication
Animal Behavior
Health Communication
Marketing Management and Organizational Communication
Forensic Biology
Software Engineering and Web Design
Information Technology and Criminal Justice
Natural History Interpretation
Social Development and Learning

This was a class of about 350.

By Abrandel05 (Abrandel05) on Saturday, June 12, 2004 - 10:18 pm: Edit

is there a big difference between creating your own major and just concentrating your classes (and research if applicable) on that subject. Welshie mentioned "neurobiology and math" which is just computational neurobiology, a topic many good departments have research in...just out of curiousity, would a neuroscience major not suffice? is it better to make your own that specific pre-grad/med?