{"id":699,"date":"2011-03-25T12:29:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T17:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/?p=699"},"modified":"2011-03-25T12:29:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T17:29:09","slug":"create-your-own-major-at-the-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/25\/create-your-own-major-at-the-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Your Own Major at the College?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many Universities around the country allow students the flexibility to create their own major or to be part of an Individualized Studies Program. \u00a0I would like to work with the Provost and Faculty Senate to develop and implement a program like this. \u00a0I want to allow students flexibility in their studies so that they can get the best education possible. \u00a0Create Your Own Major programs allow students to work with an advisor at other Universities to develop a challenging curriculum. \u00a0This allows for greater exploration for students and faculty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edit: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wanted to give some examples of schools that have create your own major programs, so here are just a few:<\/p>\n<p>University of Maryland<\/p>\n<p>George Mason University<\/p>\n<p>Indiana University<\/p>\n<p>University of Washington<\/p>\n<p>University of Massachusetts-Amherst<\/p>\n<p>Ohio State University<\/p>\n<p>and many more<\/p>\n<div id=\"geo-post-699\" class=\"geo geo-post\" style=\"display: none\"><span class=\"latitude\">32.787036<\/span><span class=\"longitude\">-79.938817<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Universities around the country allow students the flexibility to create their own major or to be part of an Individualized Studies Program. \u00a0I would like to work with the Provost and Faculty Senate to develop and implement a program like this. \u00a0I want to allow students flexibility in their studies so that they can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}