The degree program in Multidisciplinary Studies is designed for the student who has clear interests and objectives that overlap colleges and/or departments,and whose objectives cannot reasonably be met through existing majors and minors.The program offers students the opportunity to focus and harness their energies by providing plans of study tailored to their individual interests through the incorporation of courses or sets of courses offered in departments and colleges across campus. As such, the program emphasizes flexibility and combines specialized knowledge from individual disciplines as a means of approaching and analyzing problems from divergent and multidisciplinary perspectives. Students participate in a capstone during their final semester, demonstrating the incorporation of their areas of study into a project, presentation, and paper.

Multidisciplinary Studies / Option A & B

General Education Degree Requirements:
English Composition........6 credits
ENG 101 and 102
Literature Requirement.........3 credits
ENG 231 or 232
Constitutions Requirement.......4-6 credits
Mathematics Requirement.......3 credits
Distribution Requirement (Humanities & Fine Arts) 9 credits.  
Life & Physical Sciences & Analytical Thinking....9-10 credits
PHIL 102, and two courses from Life & Physical Sciences category: at least one must be a lab.
Multicultural & International Requirements 
(see Note 1).................6 credits

College of Liberal Arts Requirements:
Social Science.............................9 credits
Foreign Language or Foreign Culture.....6 credits
Additional Fine Arts.........3 credits.

Core Requirements...................12 credits
IDS 201
Research Methods: ANTH 493, HIST 251, PSC 302, PSY 240, SOC 241, or SOC 403, WMST 302
IDS 494
IDS 495A OR 495B (495B can only be completed as an Internship during the Summer). Courses must be taken in sequence.

Multidisciplinary Studies Concentration Requirements:
Option A: 42 credits
Two areas of study must be selected with a minimum of 21 credit hours in each (18 of which must be upper-division classes).

Option B: 45 credits
Three areas of study must be selected with a minimum of 15 credit hours in each (12 of which must be upper-division classes).

Notes:
1) Every student must complete a three-credit multicultural course and a three-credit international course. Courses satisfying other requirements many simultaneously satisfy the multicultural and international requirements, except one course cannot satisfy both the multicultural and the international requirements.

FACULTY: Joshua Kryah, Assistant Professor