Examples of Individualized Majors
The following are some of the many individualized majors have been submitted to and approved by the Academic Standing Committee in the past.
Business, Management, and Social Innovation
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Leadership and Analysis | ||
| Introduction to Economics | ||
ECON 073 | Financial Accounting | |
| Dollars and Sense | ||
GOVT 101 | Organizational Theory | |
GOVT 102 | Administrative Behavior | |
GOVT 118 | Science, Technology, and Public Policy | |
ICL 095 | IS: Community Internship | |
ICL 181 | Women's Leadership Seminar | |
| Women's Leadership in Politics: Theory and Practice | ||
| Introduction to Sociology | ||
| Research and Capstone | ||
| Special Topics in Education ( Inquiry and Action in Urban Contexts) | ||
ENG 195 | IS: Documenting Social Change | |
Middle East Studies: Conflict and Social Change
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| History and Politics | ||
GOVT 137 | Comparative Politics Middle East | |
HIST 267 | Medieval Culture 1 | |
HIST 269 | Middle Ages 1200-1500 1 | |
HM 1407 | Historiography in the Mediterranean 1 | |
HUM 1278 | Intro to Islam 1 | |
MDES 3000 | Modernization and Social Change 1 | |
SSC 420 | Reporting from the Frontlines 1 | |
WMST 180B | Women in Islam 1 | |
WMST 180C | Transnational Sexualities 1 | |
| Language | ||
ARAB 1009 | Beg. Modern Arabic 1 | |
ARAB 2006 | Int. Modern Standard Arabic 1 | |
| Research and Capstone | ||
ANTH 3500 | Field Study Seminar 1 | |
| Senior Seminar | ||
Psychology and Multicultural Trauma
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Culture and Politics | ||
| GOVT 141 | 3 | |
| LET 111 | Women, Gender and Cultural Production in the Global South | 3-4 |
| LET 142 | French and Francophone Women Writers | 3-4 |
| LET 149 | Post-Colonial Conditions: Contemporary Women's Writings from Africa | 3-4 |
| WGSS 109 | Comparative Studies on Women in Religion | 3 |
| Language | ||
| FREN 003 | Intermediate French III | 4 |
| FREN 004 | Intermediate French IV | 4 |
| FREN 100 | Advanced Grammar, Translation and Writing | 3-4 |
| Psychology | ||
| IDST 47 | Trauma and the Arts 1 | 3 |
| PYC 001 | General Psychology | 3 |
| PSYC 005 | Statistics for Behavioral Psychology 1 | 3 |
| PSYC 040 | Life-Span Developmental Psychology 1 | 3 |
| PSYC 118 | Psychopathology | 3 |
| PSYC 130 | Human Memory | 3 |
| PSYC 155 | Social Psychology | 3 |
| PSYC 161 | Clinical Psychology | 3 |
| PSYC 192 | History and Issues in Psychology | 4 |
| Research and Capstone | ||
| PSYC 151 | Research Methods in Psychology | 4 |
| PSYC 191 | Thesis Project | 4 |
Transcultural Francophone Studies
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Survey courses | ||
| FREN 101 | Introduction to French Literature | 3 |
| FREN 102 | Introduction to Francophone Literature | 3 |
| Language | ||
| 3 language courses beyond French 001 and 002: | ||
| FREN 003 | Intermediate French III | 4 |
| FREN 004 | Intermediate French IV | 4 |
| FREN 100 | Advanced Grammar, Translation and Writing | 3-4 |
| One semester of study abroad in a Mills-affiliated program in a French-speaking country is highly recommended. | ||
| Upper Division courses | ||
| (3 generally selected from the following) | ||
| The Francophone Levant and the Ottoman Empire | ||
| Contemporary French and Francophone Theory | ||
| Popular Tales: a Cross-Cultural Comparison | ||
| Dangerous Crossings:War and Migration in Francophone African and Middle Eastern Literature | ||
| De-colonizing Algeria: Algerian Women Writers and Filmmakers | ||
| Francophone Women's Writing from Martinique, Haiti, and Guadeloupe | ||
| Debunking Orientalist Stereotypes: Asian Writings in French | ||
| Special Topics in French & Francophone Literature | ||
| Electives from outside of French and Francophone Studies | ||
| (2 generally selected from the following) | ||
| World Roots of Literature | ||
| Representing Blackness: Film and Literature in Africa and the Diaspora | ||
| Business French and Cultural Praxis | ||
| Existentialism | ||
| Language, Meaning, and Understanding | ||
| Postcolonial Feminist Theory and Literature | ||
| Transnational Sexualities | ||
| Capstone | ||
| FREN 191 | Senior Thesis | 3 |
Spanish and Spanish American Studies
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required | ||
| SPAN 101 | Advanced Spanish Grammar, Composition and Translation | 4 |
| SPAN 140 | Introduction to Hispanic Literatures | 3 |
| LET 131 | Cultures and Identities in the Americas and the Caribbean | 3-4 |
| Four upper-division course credits in Spanish | ||
| (generally selected from the following list. May be taken through study abroad or cross-registration) | ||
| Spanish for Spanish Speakers: Language, Culture, and Identity | ||
| Intermediate Oral Skills Through Readings and Writing | ||
| Poetry Workshop | ||
| Fiction Workshop | ||
| Intersections of Art and Poetry | ||
| Contemporary Latin American, Spanish and U.S. Latina (o) Short Fiction | ||
| The 20th-Century Hispanic Novel | ||
| Special Topics in Hispanic Literatures | ||
| Seminar in Iberian, Latin American and U.S. Latina(o) Literatures | ||
| Electives | ||
| Select two electives chosen in consultation with major advisor May be taken in English; see Letters | ||
| Capstone | ||
| SPAN 191 | Senior Thesis | 3 |
Urban Cultures: Urban Cultures and Community Change
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Social, Cultural and Economic Analysis | ||
| COLL 60 | Inventing the Other | |
| ECON 139 | Urban Economics | 3 |
| ENG 180A | ST: Queer Archival Desires | 3 |
| HIST 116 | History of the American City | 3 |
| JOUR 310 | Mass Media and Society 1 | |
| SOC 128 | 3 | |
| SOC 300 | Intro to Sociology 1 | |
| SOC 301 | Social Problems 1 | |
| STAT 301: Intro to Statistics 1 | ||
| WMST 180A | Sexuality and the City | |
| WMST 180B | Intro to Quee Studies | |
| WGSS 135 | Race, Sexuality, and the State | 3 |
| Research and Capstone | ||
| SOC 091 | Methods of Social Research with Lab | 4 |
| ETHS 191 | Senior Seminar | 4 |
| 1 | Indicates a course that was transferred in, or completed under a cross-registration agreement. |