Programs

Project South Texas Academic Program Working Groups Final Report. Transdisciplinary Committee.

Tennessee Tech College of Interdisciplinary Studies

Experience Architecture program at Michigan State University. "The XA major is an excellent choice for students interested in developing theoretical knowledge and advanced skills in architecting experiences for people in digital, physical, and hybrid environments. XA students are prepared for careers in user experience, interaction design, usability, information architecture, design research, content management, project management, and application development."

Vanderbilt actively promotes research and teaching that crosses disciplines, departments and institutional lines through a multitude of centers and institutes. See also their interdisciplinary programs.

The College of Transdisciplinarity at Woodbury University prepares students to enter a world of rapid change in which they will have to remake themselves several times during their working lives.

The Transdisciplinary Research Academy at Texas Tech is designed to bring people with diverse interests together to explore questions that have a global impact and intersect with the strategic research themes established by the university.

Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke.

iCons: Integrated Concentration in Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst is a unique, 18-credit academic program that provides integrative science education in the concentration areas of Renewable Energy and Biomedicine.

"A Creative Adventure": Undergraduate Research at the College of Wooster. Independent Study is "the culmination of your four-year journey to intellectual independence: a yearlong project that allows you to throw yourself into a topic you care about."

Engaged Cornell promotes "innovation in community-engaged and real-world learning, and making those practices the hallmark of the Cornell undergraduate experience." More.

Miller, P. N. (2015, March 26). Is “Design Thinking” the New Liberal Arts? Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved March 30, 2015. The d.school at Stanford.

Boise State College of Innovation and Design approved in 2014.

Beyond Collaboration By transcending disciplines, researchers bring powerful new insights to their work by Sherry Squire. Boise State University.

Transdisciplinary Research Initiative (TRI) at UVM.

Transdisciplinary Visual Arts in the Wilkes Honors College at FAU.

Seeding, Supporting, and Sustaining Interdisciplinary Initiatives at the University of Washington: Findings, Recommendations, and Strategies. (2006)

Interdisciplinary Programs Academic Strategic Positioning Committee Summary Report. University of Denver (2011).

CSID at UNT conducts research into the theory and practice of inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to knowledge. Interdisciplinary centers focused on a particular theme or problem are common; CSID is the first center devoted to developing a philosophy of interdisciplinarity.

ASU Institute for Humanities Research. Generating and supporting transformative, transdisciplinary, collaborative and socially engaged humanities scholarship.

Cluster courses at Boston University.

Faculty Clusters: The Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program is bringing some of the best and brightest minds to join NC State University’s interdisciplinary efforts to solve some of the globe’s most significant problems.

The UW Milwaulkee Center for 21st Century Studies: The Center leads the way in imagining, defining, and creating the developing field of 21st century studies, focusing on the intersection of the humanities, arts, and sciences (social and natural) with issues of compelling concern.

At UNC Wilmington: A Thematic Transdisciplinary Cluster is a trio of thematically-related courses from University Studies and departmental majors that allows students to investigate a common theme through multiple disciplinary lenses.

SUNY Buffalo Communities of Excellence.

Seven teams of multidisciplinary researchers from across SUNY Buffalo have advanced to the next stage of the selection process for UB’s Communities of Excellence.

Virginia Tech: A plan for a New horizon. Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Curricula.

Transdisciplinary Research Initiative — to strategically advance our national role as a premier small research university.

Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University offers an interdisciplinary curriculum.

Transdisciplinary Areas of Excellence at SUNY Binghamton.

University of Pittsburgh: The Transdisciplinary Research in Emotion, Neuroscience, and Development (TREND) Artist in Residence Series.

Graduate

Media Arts and Technology (MAT) at UCSB is a transdisciplinary graduate program that fuses emergent media, computer science, engineering, electronic music and digital art research, practice, production, and theory. 
Transdisciplinary Studies at Claremont Graduate University. 
Transdisciplinary Studies at UNC Graduate School. 

Policy on Transdisciplinary Programs of Study. The Graduate School University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

MFA in Transdisciplinary Design at the New School, Parsons School of Design.

General Education

Transforming General Education at the University of Maryland (2010).

William and Mary. College Curriculum. (2013) More

General Education Reform: An Archive. University of Nebraska-Lincoln

General Education Reform Homepage. UCSB.

College of Idaho. Gen Ed Through Minors By Colleen Flaherty. Inside Higher Education, January 21, 2014.

Essays on General Education in Harvard College. Early on in the Curricular Review, then-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science William C. Kirby invited a number of faculty members to prepare essays focusing on the broad questions facing liberal education in hopes of sparking discussion of the intelligent goals of general education for the early part of the 21st century. The following essays were part of an effort for further collective deliberation by the Faculty before establishing the new program in general education.

The Harvard University 2007 Report of the Taskforce on General Education. “Our proposal is consistent with past general education programs at Harvard: it prescribes a set of requirements and calls for a set of extra-departmental courses, rather than advocates that students have free range across existing departmental offerings in the form of an open distribution system.”

Penn State University. A Report based on an Invitation from the President, the Provost and the Chair of the University Faculty Senate to Examine General Education - August 2012.

Portland State University. University Studies: The Secret Behind Our Students' Success. Our innovative, award-winning general education program teaches you how to learn.

Interdisciplinary General Education at Cal Poly Pomona.

University of California at Santa Cruz: New general education requirements emphasize bold interdisciplinary themes, global engagement (2009).

The PEAK program at the College of Idaho. Gen Ed Through Minors.

Fort Lewis College Interdisciplinary General Education Program.

Proposed Core Curriculum at SUNY Buffalo in the Realizing UB 2020 Curriculum and Assessment Task Force Report. 2013.

General education is now more commonly understood to refer to the transdisciplinary knowledge, skills, and dispositions that all graduates of an institution will possess regardless of major.” From Rowan University.

General Education and the Genesco Experience. “General Education requirements should focus on transdisciplinary courses…”

Virginia Tech presents students with choice of three pathways.

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