Design your own major through Champlain¡¯s Degree Design Lab. You¡¯ll combine courses and real-world learning experiences to personalize your own education.
Champlain¡¯s flexible, modular curriculum gives you the freedom to be creative and get a little messy with your education, while also providing structure and guidance to blaze your own path.
As an Integrative Professional Studies major, you have the opportunity to build your own customized degree. The Degree Design Lab will help you combine your varied interests, explore your passions, and create a focused plan of study to achieve your academic and career goals. When you graduate, you’ll be ready for your chosen career – 100% of 2022 Integrative Professional Studies graduates were working in their fields after graduation.
The Degree Design Lab is built on Champlain College’s values, including opportunities for study abroad, an ideal way to develop proficiency in Champlain’s Global and Cultural Understanding competency.
We feel strongly that intercultural understanding is not just important for professional success, but an essential component to being human. We’ve created customizable international learning opportunities specifically for DDL students, including a competitive summer internship abroad, service learning, and remote professional collaborations. Intercultural immersion is an important aspect of the Degree Design Lab, because it will engage students in experiences that highlight professionalism in a global context.
Study abroad experiences in Dublin or Montreal are also available to DDL students.
Choose two to three minors or threads (AKA your academic pathway for the next 4 years) from a selection of career-focused programs. This is your chance to combine your passions and build an amazing foundation of expertise in each area.
Degree Design Lab courses offer a chance to create connections between your varied interests through individual and collaborative projects.
You’ll work closely with a faculty mentor who will coach you through your studies. As an expert in interdisciplinary thinking, your mentor will help you gain the skills that employers want and develop as not only a professional, but a person.
Throughout your college experience, you’ll tackle real-world problems and make significant impacts in a variety of local and global settings.
The median starting salary for 2022 Degree Design Lab graduates
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The Integrative Professional Studies major at Champlain College is an interdisciplinary bachelor’s degree program that allows you to design your own customized curriculum by combining two to three areas of study from a variety of academic disciplines offered at the College. It is a unique program that emphasizes creative problem-solving, experiential learning, and the development of essential skills valued by employers.
For example, if you enjoy video games, music, and analyzing trends, you could take courses in game sound design and data analytics to create innovative and interactive game experiences that use data-driven insights to improve user engagement and experience.
The Integrative Professional Studies major allows you to combine your passions and skills from different fields, allowing you to create a personalized educational path that aligns with your unique interests and career aspirations.
At the heart of the Integrative Professional Studies major is the Degree Design Lab (DDL), where you¡¯ll find a program that allows you to experience college on your own terms. With the DDL, you’ll design your academic journey around your unique interests, passions, and career aspirations.
Through the Degree Design Lab, you’ll work closely with faculty mentors who are experts in interdisciplinary learning. They will help plan your coursework, identify appropriate assignments, and maximize your experiential learning opportunities. This collaborative and hands-on approach will encourage you to think critically, explore different fields of study, and make meaningful connections across disciplines.
Check out some of the engaging and hands-on courses you’ll have to choose from.
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Design your own major through Champlain¡¯s Degree Design Lab. You¡¯ll combine courses and real-world learning experiences to personalize your own education.
With the Degree Design curriculum, you'll create a personalized mix of diverse subjects that emphasize real-world experience and interdisciplinary learning.
In Champlain's Degree Design Lab and Integrative Professional Studies major, you'll be guided by faculty experts in interdisciplinary learning. They'll help you design an education that is personalized, fosters innovative thinking, and prepares you for a dynamic job market.