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Interdisciplinary Studies Program

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Interdisciplinary Studies (Major)

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College
College of Arts & Sciences

Degree Type
Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Program Type
Major

Program Delivery
On Campus, Fully Online

Time to Completion
4 Years

A major built around YOU.

The Interdisciplinary Studies program is designed to be a custom fit—for you. You’ll take courses from social sciences and arts and English Literature to Environmental Studies—before crafting your own course of study in an area of concentration you’re passionate about. Also required for the degree: an extended research project that culminates in the completion of a senior thesis under the direction of an advisor.

The Interdisciplinary Studies major offers an academic experience in the liberal arts tradition, full of opportunities for personal exploration, reflection and growth. It also stresses analytical thinking and bringing together perspectives across broad and diverse fields of knowledge.

Upon completion of the undergraduate B.A. program in Interdisciplinary Studies, students will be able to:

  1. Describe and explain how diverse methodologies specific to areas of study within the Humanities are effectively employed in the interpretation of texts or other cultural artifacts.
  2. Demonstrate critical reading, reasoning, and writing skills that contribute to the study of the Humanities as it relates to at least one other field of study
  3. Deploy and articulate an interdisciplinary approach to answering enduring questions through the practice of critical thinking and synthesizing information from a variety of academic and creative disciplines.
  4. Incorporate the Marianist tradition of educating for service, justice, and peace into a capstone project that is grounded in at least two academic disciplines.

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In addition to the general education requirements, these are the pre-major and major requirements below:

Pre-Major Requirements

  • One (1) English 200-level course
  • Two (2) 100- or 200-level History courses
  • AR 201Introduction to the Visual Arts OR AR 202 Arts and Culture II
  • One (1) Performing Arts 100- to 200-level course
  • PH 100 Introduction to Philosophy OR PH 103 Critical Thinking OR PH 105 Ethics
  • RE 103 World Religions OR RE 205 The Christian God and Human Exprience OR RE 211 The Bible as Controversy
  • Two (2) courses from: Sociology 200-level, Anthropology 200-level, and PSY 101 General Psychology
  • ENV 100 Inroduction to Environmental Issues
  • POL 111 Comparative Government and Politics

Note: students will concurrrenly complete 21 credits of General Education

Major Requirements

Student is required to complete a minimum of 36 credits of upper-division courses in disciplines related to the area of concentration, to include three semester hours of directed research in a topic chosen in consultation with the program advisor. The program shall include:

  • Minimum 12 credit hours in single discipline/concentration in consult with advisor
  • Minimum 18 credit hours in supporting disciplines in consult with advisor
  • HU 494 Senior Research Thesis
  • HU 498Senior Thesis Writing
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