<p>I can’t help with your questions regarding health and pre-med, but I can give you a little bit of insight into the interdisciplinary major that Richmond offers (the design your own).</p>
<p>There was an article in the student paper last spring about how many interdisciplinary majors graduated last year, and I think it was in the twenties, but I’m not positive. If it’s something that you’re considering, you have to be very proactive about it. It is recommended that you start talking to potential advisers and the chair of the program early during your sophomore year. There’s both a major and a minor available, and you, along with your advisers, have to put together your curriculum, your purpose, a potential thesis topic, etc.–all before you propose it and actually declare it. Both of my roommates are interdisciplinary majors. One is caught up with having to declare it–and thus proposing her research topic–before the study abroad deadline in February, and the other declared at the end of her freshman year. There are a couple of departments that are inherently interdisciplinary, International Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies being two of them. I believe there is also a Cognitive Science IDST major already developed, and there are others that I’m not familiar with. </p>
<p>In terms of how possible it is… It appears to be very possible, but the student has to be responsible about it and passionate about their area of choice. The professors that I know, and the professors that my roommates have worked with, have all been very willing to help them plan and execute their majors, but there is a major emphasis on the planning. </p>
<p>Andddd I they apparently just redesigned the IDST website, which is here: [University</a> of Richmond Arts & Sciences: Interdisciplinary Studies](<a href=“http://interdisciplinarystudies.richmond.edu/]University”>http://interdisciplinarystudies.richmond.edu/)
You’ll be able to find a lot more information there than I can give you :)</p>