Creating a major of your choice

Colleges and Universities A-Z Dartmouth College
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<p>Dear all,</p>

<p>I was wondering two things:</p>

<p>1). At Dartmouth, if you get admitted, is it true that you can essentially "create" or design your own major of choice? OR, does this mean that you can tweak a major's requirements to make it different?</p>

<p>2). Is the music program at Dartmouth worth looking into for somebody interested in a career in music? </p>

<p>3). ok, i lied!! I have three things. IF, and only if, you can create or partially design a major at Dartmouth, and the music major is not worth looking into, could somebody MAKE their own music major in a sense?</p>

<p>Thanks ^_^</p>

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<p>anyone? this couldn't be too hard to answer (i'm not speaking for myslef)</p>

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<p>Jeremy - within parameters a student can create their own major and the music program at Dartmouth surely provides a student the means to take his or her interests in many directions.
<a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Emusic/undergrad/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.dartmouth.edu/~music/undergrad/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>The person for whom you are speaking might find this list interesting:
<a href="http://alum.dartmouthentertainment.org/music.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://alum.dartmouthentertainment.org/music.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>and these articles about recent seniors interesting:
<a href="http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2006020804010%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2006020804010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Edartlife/archives/15-1/senior.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dartlife/archives/15-1/senior.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Thank you SO much ohmadre. Well, the whole post was for myself but I didn't want to address myself. I wanted it to be general. Nonetheless, thank you very much for the response ^_^</p>

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<p>just "make" your own employer...</p>

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<p>so if you can just make a major...then does that mean i could still possibly major in finance, even though there is no listed finance major at dartmouth?..or is that too much of a stretch?</p>

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<p>Too much of a stretch. You can build a major from existing ones/classes, but you can't just pull one out of thin air. Finance stresses more real-world application and less liberal arts expansiveness. With that said, you could prepare yourself with a background ready for finance either way... is it that important that your major officially says "finance"?</p>

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<p>no, but what sort of a background would you suggest in that case? should i still look into building a new major?</p>