Program Overview
Your Personalized Interdisciplinary Academic Experience
Are you a student interested in creating your own interdisciplinary academic path exploring your career interests with children, families and communities?
Would you like to engage in research and practical experience that helps you learn more about conditions, innovations, programs and public policies that shape educational experiences?
The Individually Designed Major (IDM) in Education is an interdisciplinary program that allows you to connect CESS courses with University-wide courses to create an unique major aligned with your interests and goals.
Experiential Learning and Capstone Project
Innovative, research-informed coursework provides many opportunities to learn collaboratively with your peers in the classroom and through practical experience in a variety of diverse field settings.
In addition to working with local community partners, you can engage explore research interests and study abroad opportunities in the U.S. and throughout the world.
Your capstone will focus on a culminating project or thesis advised by an academic mentor.
Degree Requirements
Student Success Spotlight
“I was stuck between a bunch of different things that I wanted to study and didn’t feel that I fit in any mold of a classic major. I really wanted to be able to carve my own path.”
Carving an Individualized Path of Success
Previous IDM Degree Titles
- Advancing Educational Systems with Integrative Health Practices
- Aiding Children Through Outdoor Education and Therapy
- Examining the Intersection of Behavioral Management and Child Life Specialist Professions
- Food Sustainability and Environmental Education
- Holistic Disability Education and Disability Culture Studies
- Integrative Health and Wellness
- Society, Human Development, and the Emergent Multilingual Students
- Supporting Children and Families Using Trauma Informed Practices
- Cultivating Holistic Wellness Through Social-Emotional Educational Practices, Trauma-Informed Social Services and Integrative Health Coaching
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