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
CMP101 | Composition 1 | 3 |
IDS101 | Human 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
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
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
LIT202-214
| Advanced Literature Elective | 3 |
LA-ELECTIVE
| Liberal Arts Elective | 3 |
IDS102 | IDS 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