<p>Do you or have you known anyone who created their own major? What was it-what classes did it consist of and what are you/him/her doing right now with that degree?</p>
<p>Creating your own major and majoring in an interdisciplinary major are two different things. For example, at Bates Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary major and at Bowdoin Theater/English is one (you can't major in just straight up theater there). Are you asking strictly about self-designed majors like they have at Hampshire?</p>
<p>Both but i'm more interested in self-designed majors.</p>
<p>My college has "independent majors." Most independent majors occur in fields where the college offers a minor but not a major. Independent majors are not truly self-designed because there are very clear expectations about what courses one would have to take to get it approved. (For example, International Relations requires 4 years of a single foreign language.) The college also does not approve independent majors that look like they want to bypass some of the requirements of an already existing major. I doubt a History of the Middle East major would get approved because one could get a regular history major by just adding on a few courses.</p>