Designer Majors

What is your major?
Do you choose it by yourself or by parents?
Do you like your major?
Do you know your major before you study?
Do you want to design your major to meet your goal?

Not all students know their specific goal before choosing their major. They may choose their major by parents' suggestion or by economic trends. Designer Majors is the education article this month. It is a new concept to me. More and more students are not happy with existing degree programs, and would like to create their own. We can find this design in USA, but it is hard to find it in Taiwan. We are far behind. Hope we can map it out in the future.

In order to design majors, you have to be a self-starter. You have to know what you need and work hard to get there. That is your motivation to achieve the will. Designer majors stretch convention and become new cultural trends. From the article, ten years ago, only 410 interdisciplinary programs which include "individualized major programs" or designer degrees existed. Today, number has nearly tripled. Students can combine different subjects to solve problems. It is so interesting. I never thought it before.

Educational bureaucracies change slowly, so individualized programs are the places where new majors are created. It is a curriculum petri dish. Students will have a broad understanding of different fields.