The mission of the interdisciplinary studies program (INTS) is to enable students to develop personalized, coherent, and rigorous undergraduate and graduate degree plans on topics or themes that cannot be achieved using traditional disciplinary majors. The program also introduces students to the academic field of interdisciplinary studies enabling them to uniquely address the increasing complexity of human existence. Thus, the program’s curriculum equips students to evaluate critically, think integratively, work cooperatively, and produce understandings of real world problems and meaningful questions that are useful, purposeful, and comprehensive.
Our understanding of interdisciplinary studies, informed by the national conversation, is that it is a process of answering a question, solving a problem, or addressing a topic that is too broad or complex to be dealt with adequately by a single discipline or profession and that draws on disciplinary perspectives and integrates their insights to produce an understanding that is practical, purposeful, meaningful, and comprehensive (Klein & Newell, 1997; Boix Mansilla, 2005)
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