By the end of their first two years of study, students must:

1 . Declare the subject area in which they would like to major, by submitting to the Academic Advising Office a major declaration card signed by a professor in the subject area.

or

2 . Propose an Individually Initiated Major (IIM).

An IIM provides an opportunity for students to develop a major that demonstrates a depth of learning and a unique combination of two or more subject areas. With the assistance of faculty advisors, the student designs a coherent sequence of studies selected from academic areas or subjects listed in the College Catalog. Such study allows a student freedom in constructing a unique major that encourages creative synthesis of inter-relationships across disciplines.