Individualized Majors Program

Explore your passions. Create your own path.

Are you having trouble finding a major that fits your unique interests, talents, and career goals? Do your interests cut across disciplinary boundaries and not fit within existing majors? Then the Individualized Major (IM) may be for you.
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Individualized Majors Program

About the Program

In the IM program, you’ll work with a faculty advisor to create a one-of-a-kind major combining your choice of courses with an approved experiential learning component, such as an internship, extended study abroad, an honors or departmental thesis, a senior seminar, or a service-learning project. Some students combine an IM with a traditional major or minor.

Butler graduates have earned Individualized Major degrees in such areas as Asian Studies, Italian Culture, Principles of Design, Ancient Egyptian and Museum Studies, The Social-Cultural Bases of Religious Experience, Medical Illustration, and Urban Relationships and Development.

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Sample Major

Bulldog soccer captain Serina Kashimoto aspires to play professionally and promote soccer back home in Japan. To broaden future options, she’s combining coursework from many disciplines—Anthropology, Psychology, Human Movement and Health Sciences, Sports Media, and more—in her IM.

About Serina and her IM
Lauren Hodge in professional attire

Sample Major

Lauren Hodge proposed her own major in the Italian language and merged it with her interest in Political Science in the IM program. Her internships with international law offices took her to Milan, Italy, and Washington, DC.

About Lauren and her IM
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Sample Major

Curious about how film and literature reflect historic moments and people’s experiences, Caitlin Ladd studied Gone with the Wind, Australia’s Mad Max, Japanese graphic novels, and more in her IM.

About Caitlin and her IM
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Sample Major

Eshan Pua’s desire to become a speech pathologist and help Chinese orphans spurred her IM, an intensive exploration of Chinese language, literature, history, business culture, and art. Her knowledge supported her successful bid for a prestigious Fulbright-Hays scholarship to study in China.

About Eshan and her IM

Contact

Individualized Majors Program

Jordan Hall, Room 237B
4600 Sunset Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46208

317-940-9224

Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs: Mary Krohn