programs
- Appalachian State University's Interdisciplinary Studies Program Offers a BA in Interdsciplinary Studies with concentrations in American Studies, Environmental Policy and Planning, Labor Studies, Internet Studies, Liberal Studies: Modern, and their most popular concentration -- an option for students to individually design their own concentration. IDS "strives to demonstrate and encourage dialogue among the disciplines."
- Bowling Green State University's School of Earth, Environment and Society Formed in 2007 with the goal of integrating Geology, Geography, and Environmental Studies and "strengthen multidisciplinary research and teaching for understanding the earth's processes and our interactions with the enviornment." SEES offers both disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches; the interdisciplinary approach combines "in-depth understandings of physical, chemical and biological processes intertwined with societal, earth, and environmental issues." SEES offers two interdisciplinary programs: Geospatial Science, and Environmental Quality. Other interdisciplinary programs at BGSU include American Culture Studies, Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Popular Culture.
- Carnegie Mellon Science and Humanities Scholars Program This undergraduate program is designed for talented students to develop a curriculum across the sciences and humanities that addresses their individual interests and achievements. Students are afforded the opportunity to collaborate with faculty in interdisciplinary research and to live together in dormitory research clusters.
- Duke University Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University offers a focus program for first- and second-year undergraduates in which students may pursue a variety of interdisciplinary seminars, seminar clusters, shared housing, and integrated learning. An Interdepartmental major is offered, as well as joint/dual degrees in business, law, medicine, environmental sciences, and engineering. Twenty-two interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate certificates are offered, including the Genome Sciences and Policy Certificate and a Global Health Certificate.
- Emory Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts Students pursuing a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies develop specific research questions and areas of study across disciplines. Study and research are developed individually with a faculty committee; methods and materials are tailored to students' particular research topics.
- European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin Identifying themselves as Germany's first private liberal arts college, desiring to renovate liberal education and its teaching in Europe. The program features an interdisciplinary, team-taught core course with a variety of electives. Corses are complemented with excursions to cultural sites and frequent guest lectures.
- The Evergreen State College Evergreen claims a reputation for "leadership in developing innovative interdisciplinarity, collaborative and team-taught academic programs" as well as being a leader in environmental education with a commmitment to sustainability and reaching beyond the classroom and campus.
- The Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Ney York University The Gallitin School provides undergraduate and graduate students a unique opportunity to "design a program of study tailored to their own needs and interests." Aside from creating their own curriculum and learning plan, students can take courses within any of the schools of NYU, take independent study courses, and engage in intership opporutnities throughout New York City.
- Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University A cluster school within Sonoma State University, Hutchins offers an integrated General Education Program, and a BA in LIberal Studies with two tracks: 1) an interdisciplinary liberal arts program; 2) a subject matter preparation program for students who plan to pursue a career in elementary educaction. There is also an option of blending the two as a third track.
- McMaster University Interdisciplinary Program in Linguistic Cognitive Science The BA in Linguistic Cognitive Science combines courses across Humanities and Science toward the study of connections among the mind, language development and use, psychological and emotional processes, and neurological processes. Students may seek a concentration in Speech & Language Pathology Preparation (SLP) or Language & Social Life and Cognitive Science.
- Michigan State University's General Education Michigan State's general requirements include Writing, Mathematics, and Integrative Studies. The Integrative Studies requirement is based around the areas of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences; Arts and Humanities; and General Science-Biological and Physical Sciences.
- Portland State University's General Education Program An award-winning general education program based on current research showing that "tightly structured clusters of courses with an interdisciplinary thematic approach help to create a more effective general education program."
- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology: Interdisciplinary Sciences BS Students pursuing a BS in Interdisciplinary Sciences choose from four areas of concentration: atmospheric sciences; business applications in science and technology; pre-professional health sciences; and science, technology, and society. Courses of study are designed by each student across math, science, humanities, fine arts, and social sciences classes.
- St. Lawrence University's First-Year Program Together with other members of the FYP, all students take an interdisciplinary team-taught course. "A residentially-based interdisciplinary first-year program is an ideal environment for beginning the four-year process of fostering the complex intellectual and social skills that are at the heart of a liberal education and the habits of considered values and engaged citizenship that such an education should produce and that are central to the university's aims and objectives."
- The University of British Columbia's College for Interdisciplinary Studies (CFIS). Led by Michael Burgess, CFIS supports collaborative, interdisciplinary research and teaching addressing complex, societal issues, engaging local, national, and international communities, and influencing policy decisions, as well as providing the infrastructure and support allowing for collaboration between researchers in other disciplines, in industry and government, and in local and international communities, to find solutions to problems that cannot be as readily solved within the confines of a single discipline.
- University of Massachusetts Amherst's Bachelor's Degree with Individual Concentration (BDIC) The people at BDIC are aware that not all students' career goals can be met by majoring in one discipline or even double-majoring. So, with the guidance of faculty, this bachelor's program allows students to design their own interdisciplinary major and curriculum.
- University of Michigan Program in Women's Studies Founded in 1973 as an interdisciplinary program, housed within the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, this department is comprised of faculty from across the humanities, social sciences, medicine, health, and law. The program seeks "to build interdisciplinary collaborations among faculty and students that bridge gender, racial, economic, religious, and national divides; create new forms of knowledge; and tie the University to our communities by promoting social justice."
- University of Minnesota Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Comprised of a faculty with a broad range of specialties and interests from science, health, and environmental ethics, to feminist politics and issues of race, class and gender, this department offers undergraduate and graduate programs. They claim their graduate program provides "rigorous interdisciplinary training that enables students to conduct scholarly research and analysis both within and outside of academia," with courses that make clear "how research, education, and social change go hand in hand."
- University of North Texas General Studies Major At the University of North Texas, undergraduate students may choose to major in General Studies. This major was "created in response to employers' interest in students with well-rounded educational backgrounds and problem-solving skills to adapt to an ever-changing global marketplace." Students choose three areas of interest to them, and take 12 advanced credit hours from three different departments, one of which must be within the College of Arts and Sciences.
- University of Texas Medical Branch Institute for the Medical Humanities Originally authorized to offer the nation's first Ph.D. degree in the medical humanities in 1988, they are still one of the few programs in the United States to offer advanced degrees (M.A., Ph.D., M.D./Ph.D., J.D./Ph.D.) in the medical humanities.