My college allowed me to make my own major, basically what I had to do was:
1) Write up a long paper about why my major was important and why one major would not fulfill what I wanted to learn
2) Show research of other colleges with HCI programs and then show how I could supplement it
3) Find my courses for the rest of the three years of college and list why each one would apply to my major.
4) Find a professor in each department to be an advisor
Then after all of that, I submitted it and it had to be reviewed by some people. It was great, and definitely not something for everyone.
Hey Jag!
My college allowed me to make my own major, basically what I had to do was:
1) Write up a long paper about why my major was important and why one major would not fulfill what I wanted to learn
2) Show research of other colleges with HCI programs and then show how I could supplement it
3) Find my courses for the rest of the three years of college and list why each one would apply to my major.
4) Find a professor in each department to be an advisor
Then after all of that, I submitted it and it had to be reviewed by some people. It was great, and definitely not something for everyone.
When & how did you realize that's what you wanted to do?
They wouldn't let me major in Cognitive Science and double in Computer Science, so I proved them wrong. :)
But to be honest, I still don't know what I want to do. I just do things that I think are interesting and sound exciting to me.