设计个人设计的专业（IDMajor）或个人设计的未成年人（IDMinor）是获得由教师赞助的自选学习课程的机会。阅读UVM目录中独立设计的专业知识背后的一般哲学。在艺术与科学学院（CAS）中，IDMajor是非学科，跨学科的专业，适用于那些目前在CAS中提供的主要课程未能满足艺术和科学学术兴趣的学生。CAS并非打算将这样一个特殊的专业（或辅修课程）作为一个狭窄的专业培训课程。相反，IDMajor必须导致对人类知识的某些广泛领域进行深入的调查，而这些知识目前还没有由CAS的一个部门学科定义。同样，IDMin
Designing an Individually Designed Major (IDMajor) or Individually Designed Minor (IDMinor) is an opportunity to receive credit for pursuing a course of study of your own choice sponsored by a faculty member. Read the general philosophy behind an individually designed major in the UVM Catalogue. In the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), the IDMajor is a nondepartmental, interdisciplinary major for those students whose academic interests in the arts and sciences are not met by the major programs currently offered in CAS. It is not CAS's intention that such a special major (or minor) be a program of narrow professional training. Rather, the IDMajor must lead to an intensive investigation of some broad area of human knowledge that is not presently defined by a single departmental discipline in CAS. Similarly, the course of study for an IDMinor should constitute a coherent and intensive concentration of courses consistent with the philosophy underlying liberal education.