18 Feb, 2012
US College Students Customize Unique Majors
One of the initial questions an American college tyro often gets is, “What are you majoring in?” Meaning, what educational theme are you spending most of your time studying?
A standard answer would be “chemistry,” “pre-law,” “journalism,” “sociology,” or “English.”
What is not standard is an answer such as “Keepin’ It Real” or “Grand Romantic Gestures.”
That’s right: “Grand Romantic Gestures.” It’s an tangible march of investigate at the University of Maryland. But only for Elizabeth Limberakis.
You see, Maryland is one of a flourishing series of U.S. colleges that allows students to custom-design their own majors, tailored to their interests. As The New York Times reports, Limberakis happens to be meddlesome in the investigate of love.
At Wesleyan College in Georgia, a little some-more than half of the undergraduate students separate their majors, as it’s called.
love, kept 1966, Flickr Creative Commons
Yes, even love can be the theme of a student’s categorical educational curriculum.
A series of University of Washington students do too, after receiving a warning from the university that cooking adult your own educational module does not meant you can pattern a “light” vital just to get an easy degree.
Instead, that university makes clear, individualized studies are for “the intellectually curious, contemplative and rarely self-directed students who welcome training for its own sake.”
In fact, many colleges need those who invent their own majors to take classes in at least 3 widely-different disciplines.
Even the “Keepin’ It Real” vital at the University of Maryland was a some-more critical endeavour that it sounds.
The Times says it enclosed courses in cocktail enlightenment and the “purity of art,” because the tyro was planning an uncertain party career.
