Interdisciplinary Studies

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Department of Interdisciplinary Studies
College of Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts Building 153 ~ 260-481-6160
Janet Badia, Dean

The Department of Interdisciplinary Studies houses the College of Liberal Arts new English, Communication, & Digital Studies Master’s degree program. Interdisciplinary programs reflect the long tradition in the liberal arts of teaching and learning across disciplinary boundaries. Programs in this category will share the practice of challenging the boundaries that have historically distinguished one academic discipline from another. For some programs, this goal will be accomplished through an interdisciplinary approach to the subject matter - one in which knowledge and methods from different disciplines are integrated. For others, it will encompass an approach to knowledge and research that aims to establish new, transdisciplinary intellectual frameworks that go beyond the traditional disciplines. Regardless of the approach, the goal is to provide a transformative education to students, one well-suited to the complex and rapidly changing world we inhabit in the twentieth-first century. 

English, Communication & Digital Studies Master of Arts
Program Director:  Troy Bassett

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