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Interdisciplinary Studies

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Tufts University

Program overview

The interdisciplinary studies major is a way to design an academic program that blends and cuts across disciplines Students plan and build their own program which combines at least three distinct disciplines The major requires a high degree of independent initiative and self-discipline and students culminate their major by completing a senior-year thesis or creative project chosen to integrate the program Students work with a faculty committee to tailor their courses and capstone project to meet their interdisciplinary interests and goals Students apply for an IS major during their sophomore year and are strongly encouraged to discuss their emerging interests with the CIS Director early in their Tufts education Some of our recent Interdisciplinary Majors have included Biodramatics combining biology drama and media Adolescents media and identity combining child study and human development media and sociology and Discourses of the Diaspora combining sociolinguistics ethnomusicology and Africana Studies

Duration: 13

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