Students are encouraged to consider developing an independent major when they have a keen interest in a substantial set of intellectual issues bridging courses in multiple disciplines. Students work with two or more faculty members to design a course of study for the independent major that combines work in several departments.

Recent approved independent majors include: 

          Ethnicity and Mathematics Learning
          Biopsychology
          Human Evolution
          Developmental Studies
          20th Century Studies
          Social Psychology of Art
          Performance Studies
          Political Economy
          Neurobiology
          East Asian Studies
          Democracy and Social Justice
          Linguistics