Alderson-Broaddus College

Primary Program Information

Degree or Program Name:

Interdisciplinary Studies

Category of Degree:

Interdisciplinary Studies or Interdisciplinarity

Degree(s) Awarded:

Unknown

Degree's Web Address (URL):

http://www.ab.edu/academics/degrees/interdisciplinary_studies

Program Description:

A major in Interdisciplinary Studies offers students whose academic interests do not match existing majors an opportunity to create a program to meet their academic goals. Flexibility and choice are its distinctions, together with structure sufficient to permit its use as a basis for graduate education. This is not a program for students registered as "undecided". This major may be used by a student who prefers a broad liberal arts background, or who wants to examine a set of intellectual issues bridging courses in multiple disciplines, or who wants to pursue a special area of study that cannot be satisfied in a regular major, double major, or combined major and minor.

Contact and Location Information

Street Address:

101 College Hill Drive

City:

Philippi

State, Country, or Online:

--West Virginia

Zip Code:

26416

Organizational Structure

Dedicated Faculty:

Unknown

Dedicated Advisors:

Unknown

Description of Student Support:

The Interdisciplinary Studies program will be supervised by an Interdisciplinary Studies adviser, a faculty member who undertakes the role as part of his or her regular advising duties, coordinating the program as a whole (with program review responsibilities) and monitoring the individual study plans of students in the program. This program adviser will not ordinarily be a student’s primary Academic Adviser. The primary adviser will be selected from a field appropriate to the plan of study selected by the student

Degree Curriculum

Level of Degree:

Baccalaureate Degree

Dedicated Courses:

Unknown

Choice of Concentrations:

Unknown

Description of Degree Curriculum:

Each student will work with the Interdisciplinary Studies adviser and one or more other faculty members to design an interdisciplinary course of study using one of the following options:
Option A: At least forty (40) semester hours of work in any one of the five Academic Divisions, with a listing of specific classes to be taken, and at least twenty (20) semester hours in a second Division, with a listing of specific classes to be taken.
Option B: At least twenty-seven (27) semester hours of work in any one of the five Academic Divisions, with a listing of specific classes to be taken; at least eighteen (18) semester hours in a second Academic Division, with a listing of specific courses to be taken; and at least fifteen (15) semester hours in a third Academic Division, with a listing of specific courses to be taken.
For both Option A and Option B, the proposed course work must include at least forty (40) semester hours of upper-level work (courses numbered 300 or above). The courses listed as fulfilling program requirements may not be used to fulfill Liberal Studies requirements.
The proposed course of study must also include the following:
At least four (4) semesters of a modern foreign language
The capstone course required in the student's primary field of concentration
A senior thesis

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