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Flexible Curriculum Option

Develop your own major or minor

Create your own major or minor

If you don't see a major or minor that you're interested in on our list of programs, we have an option for you! You can create your own flex major or minor in collaboration with your faculty advisor(s). 

The flexible curriculum option allows you to develop a major and/or minor tailored to your interests and career goals.

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Maria Garcia, Digital and Studio Art

I have a flex major in visual communication for the performing arts, so it combines graphic design and theatre arts, which are two things that I am passionate about and want to pursue professionally.

Maria Garcia ‘26, visual communication for the performing arts, graphic design, and theatre arts (flexible curriculum); of Cambridge, MN

Examples of flexible curriculum majors and minors

There are no restrictions to the major or minor that you want to create for yourself. Here are some examples of majors and minors that other students have created for themselves.

  • Urban planning
  • Visual communication for the performing arts
  • Applied electrical engineering in music technology
  • Creative writing for visual adaptation and novelization
  • Gender and sexuality studies
  • Innovative sales management and marketing
  • Music production
  • Psychology with a focus on therapeutic creative storytelling
  • Business intelligence and analytics
  • Media relations
  • Nonprofit marketing

How do I design a flexible curriculum major or minor?

When can I submit a proposal?

Your proposal form must be submitted no sooner than the first term of your sophomore year and no later than the first term of your senior year.

 

Timelines to submit your proposal

EARLIEST TERM YOU CAN SUBMIT

First term, sophomore year

FINAL  DEADLINE/TERM  to submit 

Last term, junior year

 

Take your next step today

Are you interested in pursuing a flex major or minor? We’d love to send you information, including more on academics and student life at Hamline.

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