2017-2018 Credit Catalog

Interdisciplinary Studies (IDT)

2017-2018

AN OPTION OF LIBERAL ARTS

Type: Transfer, Degree (AA)

Open Admissions

Division: Liberal Studies


As a Liberal Arts option, the IDS program offers students a unique opportunity to explore topics and issues in an interdisciplinary way. The program is based on the belief that knowledge from various academic disciplines can be integrated so that it reflects what actually happens in life and the real world. In this way, knowledge about the real world will have a certain unity and coherence to it. In an era of over-specialization and fragmentation, the IDS program emphasizes the mastery of relevant knowledge in this holistic and comprehensive way.

First Year

Fall

Course NumberTitleCredits
CMP101Composition 1

3
IDS101Human Being: Being Human

3
Mathematics Elective
MAT 140 level or higher

3
HIS-ELECTIVE
History Elective

3
LS-Elective
Laboratory Science Elective

4
Total Credit Hours:16

Spring

Course NumberTitleCredits
HIS-ELECTIVE
History Elective

3
LS-Elective
Laboratory Science Elective

4
CMP102-150
Composition 2 Elective

3
SS-ELECTIVE
Social Science Elective

3
Total Credit Hours:13

Second Year

Fall

Course NumberTitleCredits
HUM-ELECTIVE
Humanities Elective

3
IDSU-ELECTIVE
IDS-Humanities Elective

3
LA-ELECTIVE
Liberal Arts Elective

4
LA-ELECTIVE
Liberal Arts Elective

3
LIT202-214
Advanced Literature Elective

3
Total Credit Hours:16

Spring

Course NumberTitleCredits
LIT202-214
Advanced Literature Elective

3
LA-ELECTIVE
Liberal Arts Elective

3
IDS102IDS Seminar

3
IDSS-ELECTIVE
IDS-Science Elective

3
SS-ELECTIVE
Social Science Elective

3
Total Credit Hours:15

Requirement Notes

IDS- Social Science, Humanities, and Science Elective: Any IDS course which fulfills these elective categories.

Open Elective: Recommend that 3 of these credits be CPS100-Information Technology and Its Applications.

IDS102 may be taken more than once as an elective since the topic/theme changes.

Program Note

Communications and Mathematics proficiencies required to graduate.

See guided pathway sheets for advising information specific to your area of focus.

Total Credit Hours: 60