For the Person of Wide Interests and Abilities
The Interdisciplinary Studies major at Alderson-Broaddus College, a program for the person of wide interests and abilities, will give you a thorough education. As an Interdisciplinary Studies major, you will have many choices, but your program will be well planned so that it can be used as the basis for later graduate study.
A-B Advantages
At A-B you will have the advantages of small classes where you will be personally known, and where you will feel free to question. You will study with well-qualified, experienced faculty and highly motivated students. You'll have opportunity for independent studies, internships, advanced research responsibilities and study abroad.
A-B's beautiful campus has excellent classroom and laboratory facilities, an advanced computer system, a well-equipped library, and a modern physical education and recreation facility. On campus you will be able to develop interpersonal communication and organizational skills and to become more confident about meeting people by participating in student organizations and activities.
Advantages of the Interdisciplinary Studies Major
A major in Interdisciplinary Studies offers students whose academic interests do not match existing majors an opportunity to create a program to meet their academic goals. Flexibility and choice are its distinctions, together with structure sufficient to permit its use as a basis for graduate education. This is not a program for students registered as "undecided". This major may be used by a student who prefers a broad liberal arts background, or who wants to examine a set of intellectual issues bridging courses in multiple disciplines, or who wants to pursue a special area of study that cannot be satisfied in a regular major, double major, or combined major and minor.
Course of Study Options
Each student will work with the Interdisciplinary Studies adviser and one or more other faculty members to design an interdisciplinary course of study using one of the following options:
Option A: At least forty (40) semester hours of work in any one of the five Academic Divisions, with a listing of specific classes to be taken, and at least twenty (20) semester hours in a second Division, with a listing of specific classes to be taken.
Option B: At least twenty-seven (27) semester hours of work in any one of the five Academic Divisions, with a listing of specific classes to be taken; at least eighteen (18) semester hours in a second Academic Division, with a listing of specific courses to be taken; and at least fifteen (15) semester hours in a third Academic Division, with a listing of specific courses to be taken.
For both Option A and Option B, the proposed course work must include at least forty (40) semester hours of upper-level work (courses numbered 300 or above). The courses listed as fulfilling program requirements may not be used to fulfill Liberal Studies requirements.
The proposed course of study must also include the following:
At least four (4) semesters of a modern foreign language
The capstone course required in the student's primary field of concentration
A senior thesis
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