Designing your OWn Degree in the LCB PRogram

A degree that is personally and professionally fulfilling in every way-because it is designed around your individual interests and academic goals

Scroll down the page to learn the Bachelor's Degree Requirements, How to begin desiging your own studies, and how to Select a Focus

Bachelor's Degree Requirements

• A bachelor's degree at Lesley University is 120 credits [doc]
  • Liberal Arts 42 credits
  • Major/Specialization 36 credits
  • Electives 42 credits
• Transfer in up to 88 credits into the liberal arts and elective areas of the degree
• Earn up to 48 credits for prior learning
• Your major/specialization must be done with LCB over a minimum of three semesters
• Each student writes a 12 credit thesis that is part of their major/specialization

How to begin designing your own studies

At LCB the journey to design your own bachelor's degree begins with your questions. We ask you "What do you know?" and "What do you want to know?" These questions will help you to reflect on your life experience and all that you have learned until now. We help you to formulate statements about topics that interest you. There are many forums at residency and online where you can discuss the answers to these questions:

• With your program advisor when you enter as a new student
• In small groups with faculty mentors
• In the snack room with fellow adult students
• In essays and journals
• In online classrooms

During residency, as these questions are refined, you will enter into study groups with faculty mentors and peers and work these questions into study plans. During study groups, you will also discuss the professional requirements you wish to fulfill through LCB and/or pre-requisites that are necessary for your future or graduate school plans. Through these study groups and informal conversations at residency, you begin to outline a study plan.

Selecting a Focus

When you are accepted into the LCB program you will be assigned a program advisor. The program advisor works with you throughout your degree program. Together you assess transfer credits, make plans to earn life experience credits, estimate the time your degree will take to complete, and discuss the direction of your major/specialization. LCB students must focus 36 credits of their degree in a major or specialization. A thesis is part of this major/specialization and is the most focused part of your degree where all of your life experience and academic studies are synthesized.

Popular Majors - Shape one of these to fit your needs or design one from scratch: