Interdisciplinary studies major requirements

The course of study must follow a plan submitted to and approved by the Interdisciplinary Studies Board of Study. The plan must include the following:

• Twenty-four (24) upper-division semester hours in two distinct disciplines, twelve credits in each discipline.
• First-year competency in two world languages or second-year competency in one world language.
• Successful completion (2.0 minimum) of two junior seminars in Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS301).
• Successful completion of IDS498 (senior thesis I) and IDS499 (senior thesis II).

In addition, interdisciplinary studies majors are expected to work with their advisors and the IDS Board of Study to choose a course of electives that will not only deepen their major but also broaden their university degrees so that they might graduate with an appreciation of myriad modes of inquiry and a flexibility of method that will enrich not only the skills they will bring to future employers, but also long lives of inquiry and civic engagement.

Knowledge:

• Understanding of some multi-cultural transnational issues
• Familiarity with fundamental professional terminology of at least two disciplines

Skills:

• Competency in writing, reading, speaking and listening
• Ability to gather information via appropriate sources and to evaluate information critically
• Ability to identify discrete methodologies in their shared assumptions and distinct heuristic processes and use these methodologies productively to define questions and explore responses

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