<p>I am passionate about what I would consider the "Humanities". I would love to be able to have a degree that covers a variety of subjects: preferably philosophy, English, French, music, history, culture studies... All while getting some type of a degree in Secondary Education...</p>
<p>Do any colleges have a general "Humanities" Major, or a design-your-own-Major type of program? Or will I have to sacrifice my varying interests to attain a college degree?</p>
<p>Surprisingly, the majority do offer an option to design your own major. It takes more work (to organize and get approved), obviously, but can really be worth it. General humanities majors are a little more rare but still at quite a few schools.</p>
<p>Just so you are aware, most Secondary Education programs are going to require that you have a major in a standard subject area (a science, history, math, etc). However, with that goal out of the picture you might want to consider Comparative Literature. It's very interdisciplinary and encourages you to study history and culture as a way to view the literature (in your case English and French) through new "lenses".</p>
<p>Thank you both very much.</p>
<p>I will have to do my fair share of research on this designing-your-own-Major thing.</p>
<p>I've done a lot of research on the whole Secondary Education degrees, and I've found it basically differs with each school. There are schools like Boston University where there is an actual English Education Major, in which case I could double major with my own designed Major thing if I wanted (if they actually offered that type of a major as well). Other schools, like Wheaton College, have you Major in the subject you want to teach and Minor in Education, which I find boring. Other schools like Brown do not even have you get a degree in education, do not even have you Major in the subject you want to teach, but have you pass requirements.</p>