Self-Designed Major
Requirements for the Major:
The Self-Designed Major allows students to develop academic majors of their own, whose requirements they themselves will set, and must meet, in order to complete the major.
The courses listed below are only examples; each self-designed major is different.
COMM 175: Intro to Film Studies
COMM 212: Visual Rhetoric
AFAM 258: Spike Lee and Black Aesthetics
MUSC 266: Music in Film
CHIN 333: Chinese Cinema
PHIL 301: Romantic Comedies and the Philosophy of Love
FREN 334: Exploring French Lit thru Film
ASIA 245: Film and Religion
COMM 376: Queer Cinema
Senior Research Project:
Evaluating the Star Wars Franchise as a Cultural Phenomenon
PHIL 156 Logic & Styles of Arguments
POLS 260 Intro to Legal Studies
PHIL 240 Philosophy of Law Econ
ECON 345 Economics and Law
POLS 261 American Constitutional Law
POLS 348 International Law
POLS 365 Civil Liberties
COMM 253 Argumentation and Advocacy
ES 361 Environmental Law
COMM 387 Rhetoric of Law
Senior Research Project:
Sports Law and Agency
To major in film production, we would strongly recommend a course list like this:
6 Film/Video Production Courses, including: CINE 201, CINE 202, CINE 370
4 Film Theory courses, including CINE 175
Courses taken on Lake Forest College In The Loop from Columbia College
A Creative Project (or a Thesis) with Lake Forest College Faculty
Self-Designed Majors in Entrepreneurship and Innovation might look something like these:
A sequence of ENTP courses, plus
Electives in a focus area, say Digital Marketing:
ART 142 Digital Design Foundations
ART 253 Graphic Design
ART 370 Interactive Web Design or CSCI 270 Web Development
CSCI 107: Introduction to Web Programming or CSCI 112: Computer Science
This might prepare you for a Senior Creative Project like this:
A digital marketing campaign for a real life startup non-profit
A sequence of ENTP courses, plus
Electives in a focus area, say management :
PSYCH 355 Industrial & Organizational Psychology
BUSN 245: Principles of Management
BUSN 343: Diversity in Organizations
PSYC 208: Psychology of Career Development
PSYC 211: Adulthood and Aging
This might prepare you for a Senior Research Project like this:
Addressing Life Stage Changes in Human Resource Management
A Self-Designed Major in Social Innovation might look something like this:
A sequence in ENTP courses, plus
Electives in a focus area, say Social Justice:
SOAN 210 Principles of Social Organization
SOAN 239 Social Movements in Society
SOAN 310 Social Research: Quantitative Methods or SOAN 320 Social Research: Quantitative Methods
PHIL 276 Social Justice and Human Rights
ECON 265: Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination
This might prepare you for a Senior Research Project like this:
US Foreign Aid in Afghanistan: and Evaluation and Recommendation
Those seeking a major in some specific entrepreneurial enterprise must consult with Trish Thomas, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, before preparing their proposals.