Interdisciplinary Colloquium Program
Each Interdisciplinary Colloquium is a course team-taught across two Core Areas of Understanding by faculty members from two different departments. These courses offer dynamic opportunities for teaching and learning as well as a distinct curricular advantage.
Students completing an Interdisciplinary Colloquium will fulfill the requirements for two Areas of Understanding at once and thereby make room for a Core elective. The latter may be fulfilled either by (1) taking a Core course in an area of the student’s choosing, or (2) taking a 200-, 300-, or 400-level course outside the student’s primary major. In other words, the number of courses needed to complete the Core Curriculum remains the same, but students completing an Interdisciplinary Colloquium may finish the Core with the aforementioned elective. Students are encouraged to use this Core elective to broaden interests or to fulfill requirements for a minor or even a second major. The Interdisciplinary Colloquium is not a new Core requirement. Rather it is an option, one that interested students would ideally take in the second semester of the sophomore year.
Please note that Interdisciplinary Colloquia with an Natural and Physical Science (NPS) component shall stand in their own Natural and Physical Science category. The provision shall have no impact on the requirement that at least one NPS course must have a lab component.
Interdisciplinary Colloquia
Refer to the Course Listing Webpage for IC Offerings in a given semester.
Course | GWR | SLE | Course Description | Notes |
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IC 201 | Ecology in Short Fiction | Students will satisfy both CE & NPS-non Lab AU's upon successful completion of this course | ||
IC 202 | GWR | Visualizing Women in 19th Western Art and Literature | Students will satisfy both HUM & WCH AU's upon successful completion of this course | |
IC 203 | GWR | Foundations of Modern Physics | Students will satisfy both WCH, NPS-non Lab, and GWR AU's upon successful completion of this course | |
IC 204 | Artistic Peacebuilding | Students will satisfy both CE & HUM AU's upon successful completion of this course. | ||
IC 205 | Disease and Disability: The Science and the Stories | Students will satisfy both CE & NPS-non Lab science upon successful completion of this course. | ||
IC 206 | GWR | Yes | Middle Eastern Politics | Students will satisfy both NCH & SSC upon successful completion of this course. Signature Learning Experience: Internship. |
IC 207 | Yes | Aging, Regeneration and Spirituality | Students will satisfy both HUM & SSC upon successful completion of this course. Signature learning: Community Based Learning. | |
IC 208 | Computer Game Design and Japanese Culture | Students will satisfy both NCH & CE upon successful completion of this course. |