Interdisciplinary Studies

Undergraduate study: Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Interdisciplinary Studies.

Academic Program

The objective of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program is to provide students with an opportunity to pursue a course of study that is not restricted to conventional departmental or unit boundaries. A crucial feature is the advising process, which aims to develop the student’s ability to formulate a major equivalent comprised of non-introductory courses with thematic integrity and continuity. This ensures flexibility in the curriculum while precluding loss of academic substance and rigor. Thus students create their own degree proposals that must draw upon no less than three disciplines in the UHM catalog in the study of a particular problem or theme, along with specifically designed IS courses.

While the Interdisciplinary Studies Program encourages creation of individually conceived curricula, it also serves to accommodate students in a variety of fields that lack an undergraduate major and are interdisciplinary in nature. These include:

Pre-professional majors (e.g., pre-law, pre-med, pre-optometry, pre-pharmacy, etc.) for those students who choose to not major in an A&S major.

Interdisciplinary majors for which there is no currently existing department or program (e.g., criminology, gerontology, disability studies, health studies, globalization studies, international studies).

Undergraduate majors that are established at UHM only as graduate programs ormajors in existing interdisciplinary programs that do not at this time grant Bachelor degrees:

Department	Location	Phone
Peace Studies *	Saunders Hall 717	956-7427
Environmental Studies *	Saunders Hall 717	956-7361
Academy of Creative Media	Crawford 220	956-7736
Linguistics *	Moore Hall 569	956-8602
English as a Second Lang. *	Moore Hall 570	956-8610

* Certificates also offered.

Created by Lynne Higa, Michael Kirk-Kuwaye

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