Liberal and Integrative Studies is a graduate degree program built on more than 35 years of experience in individualized learning. The curriculum offers students the opportunity to design a degree consistent with their own educational goals, using available institutional and area resources. The department's major purpose is to serve students whose needs and objectives are best met by combinations of courses or mixes of learning formats not available through established curricula. On entering the Liberal and Integrative Studies program, students must take LNT 501 where they design individualized degree proposals and assemble their degree committee. Each degree proposal is an individualized plan that is tailored to fit the particular goals, needs, and interests of the student. All degree proposals must be approved by the student's LNT degree committee. Self-assessment, independent study, multidisciplinary courses/studies, and credit for prior learning assessment are all course options that may be integrated within individual degree proposals. Student degree proposals must be interdisciplinary but may also focus on an area such as human resource development, global education, philosophy, women and gender studies, African-American studies, Liberty Studies, technology, or society and the law.