Choose Your Own Adventure

As a major in our Self-Designed program, you’ll work with two faculty advisors. They’ll help you build a rigorous multidisciplinary curriculum that not only meets LVC’s major requirements, but also sets you up to jump into the job market when you graduate.

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100% You. 100% LVC.

Cross Disciplines, Break Boundaries

LVC students have built programs in marketing and communications, the mathematics of finance, and nutritional psychology. Add a double major or minor, study abroad, secure an internship with an alum, or lead a student club.

Brand New, Yet Time-Tested

Even though Self-Designed majors are as unique as your interests, we’ve offered customized programs for decades. Every one of them expands on a liberal arts lens—ensuring you gain skills in critical thinking, problem-solving, intercultural competence, analyzation.

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average number of students who pursue a self-designed major each year
40+
majors to choose courses from
120
credits required for completion
Career Opportunities

LVC’s Self-designed majors have wide-open opportunities. Here are some of the careers they have pursued.

  • Senior Product Analyst
  • Client Communications Manager
  • Art Director
  • Hospital Operations Coordinator
  • Broker
  • Social Media Marketer
  • Therapist
  • Principal
  • GIS Specialist
  • Pharmaceutical Sales Representative

In Their Words

Build on Your Strengths
When I began designing my major, all I knew was that I wanted to work in sports communications. My advisors knew my strengths better than I did and guided me to courses that would benefit my career the most.
Travis Hall ’19, Social Media Coordinator, San Francisco Giants
When I began designing my major, all I knew was that I wanted to work in sports communications. My advisors knew my strengths better than I did and guided me to courses that would benefit my career the most.
Travis Hall ’19, Social Media Coordinator, San Francisco Giants