<p>I’m not sure I can answer your question directly because I’m not sure exactly what you mean. There is, for example, a business major with a marketing track. In a school that isn’t an undergraduate business school - meaning not a liberal arts university - I think that’s kind of typical. If you go to a school that has a marketing major, I believe those tend to be business schools, as in a business school within a university. </p>
<p>But business schools don’t connect graphic design and psychology that much. Their approach to marketing tends to be quantitative and principle oriented. So for example, at Boston University, advertising is a major but it’s within the School of Communications, not their business school. (Kids there sometimes double degree, not double major, to get a degree from both their COM and SMG schools. That’s more work than 2 majors.) I can’t speak to how every school does this, but you’re really speaking about at least 3, maybe 4 areas within a typical school: art school for graphics, psychology in liberal arts, marketing in business and advertising in communications. At many schools, that could be 4 separate colleges with separate requirements. I’m not talking about schools limited to business; they may have an advertising/marketing class but will then tend to lack the arts part and maybe some of the liberal arts part.</p>
<p>If you’re indeed artsy and want to include actual graphic design work along with business, then you’re more likely to be able to do that UR than at most other schools. They encourage cross-disciplinary work and arts aren’t isolated in their own school, as often happens in universities. They have a multidisciplinary center that administers school recognized programs which cross lines and they encourage students to create their own courses of studies. You can’t “create a major” because, as I remember, majors have to be approved by the state. You can perhaps develop a minor or some other interdepartmental thing, but that doesn’t happen on its own because you want to sign up this or that class. You can certainly double major at UR; it’s common because the Rochester Curriculum doesn’t have the standard distributional requirements. You have more academic freedom at UR than at all but a handful of universities.</p>