<p>Has it been done before? Can you create a major in the department you want and receive a degree in it? What's the likelihood that if you go and talk to an adviser in the department you want, and put together a major plan (for example, combining a major and minor, or two majors, to create a new one), that they'll approve it and confer it upon your graduation? Would such an unestablished degree program even be useful to employers or grad schools?</p>
<p>Anyone know about this?</p>
<p>There you go and a quick reminder to anyone that sees this, Google is your friend.</p>
<p>[The</a> Individual Major 2010-11](<a href=“http://admissions.ucsc.edu/academics/majors/individual-study.html]The”>http://admissions.ucsc.edu/academics/majors/individual-study.html)</p>
<p>That is not what I’m asking about, smartass. I’m asking about proposing that a new major be established and/or conferred, not an “individual major”.</p>
<p>Unless you want to establish a new department, that’s what the individual major is.</p>
<p>But your degree won’t be in what you want, right? It’ll just say something about an individual major.</p>
<p>“I’m asking about proposing that a new major be established and/or conferred, not an “individual major”.”</p>
<p>From the first paragraph from the link:</p>
<p>“At UC Santa Cruz you may elect to propose your <strong><em>OWN MAJOR</em></strong> in preference to the established major programs. Such individually designed programs are usually interdisciplinary, since programs centered in a particular discipline are already provided by the departments. Individual majors are usually pursued by highly motivated, exceptional students.”</p>
<p>Also, it may be a good idea to talk to an academic adviser and ask them about it.</p>
<p>For the record, the only reason why I put “Google is your friend” because a large amount of new students asks questions on here and they are easily answered with a google search.</p>
<p>Only school can decide whether not they have a new major because if it is a new major, it need more people enroll in the program. Individual major is a good idea if you want do something different in college. The only way you can propose a new major is you have enough support like at least hundred people willing to enroll the major, so maybe you can ask school for a new major, otherwise just do the individual major. it will be fine.</p>
<p>actually i am think about individual major too, like double major in computer science and poker since i love poker so much, and i want to be a poker pro. :D</p>
<p>It is hard enough to get an individual major, not to mention trying to get a whole new major curriculum approved by the school.</p>
<p>My boyfriend is attempting to get an individual major. Just for that he has to find professors who are willing to form a committee to help create the individual curriculum, guide progress, and vouch for the usefulness of the curriculum. </p>
<p>You do have to propose a name for the individual major, so it can say that on your degree.</p>
<p>It’s not really anything special I’m interested in. I’m in the B.A. in Mathematics, but I just wanted to know if I could possibly get a B.S. in Mathematics or Applied Mathematics from the School of Engineering. If my degree is called something else, or in a different department, I wouldn’t be interested.</p>
<p>Er…I have no idea what you want, then. A B.S. in Math will not come from SoE. A degree in AMS /will/ come from SoE. Simple.</p>
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<p>I just told you what I want.</p>
<p>And I told you the answer.</p>
<p>You said you wanted nothing special but that is exactly what you are asking for, because of how specific you are about the department and naming.</p>
<p>I asked a friend in SoE advising about this and here is what I was told.</p>
<p>There have been many requests for an AMS major, but it would simply consist of the math major and AMS minor kind of squished together. So they see no point in creating a major for AMS.</p>
<p>There is a fine distinction between a B.S and a B.A. oftentimes. Unless you want to create something like an individual “Algorithms Analysis” major, which would be math combined with Comp Sci and thus under the jurisdiction of the SoE, your request will fall flat.</p>