Being an Interdisiplinary Studies major?

Bigredmed
Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:09:05 +0000

Is there an actual interdisciplinary studies major, or is this one of those “design your own major sort of things”? I had a friend who put together a “biopsychology” major at my school by looking at other biopsych programs around the country and then submitting a formal plan to the appropriate people in the College of Arts & Sciences.

On one hand my gut feeling is that a “design your own major” sort of thing, if formalized and based off of other established programs is going to look less “weird” than having a BS in Interdisciplinary Studies will. If you’re doing this to reach a certain focused area of interest that your school can’t meet, that’s one thing, but “interdisciplinary studies” just sounds like you got to take whatever classes you wanted to. But on the other hand, we’ve said time and time again that major doesn’t matter.

So I guess I don’t know what to tell you.