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Program Description
The Interdisciplinary Studies Programs at CSUB allow students to examine concepts, issues, and perspectives that cross traditional boundaries of study, and to combine elements of distinct disciplines in a unique way. Currently, students can choose to specialize in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, or choose from available specializations in Ethnic and Area Studies; or, working closely with faculty coordinators, a student can craft a unique field of study that combines correlated studies in two or more fields to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Studies.
Goals and Objectives
Goal I: Students will develop broad, integrative knowledge.
1.1 Students will analyze complex issues, which integrate foundational knowledge, values, and methods from two or more disciplines.
Goal II: Students will develop cross-disciplinary skills.
2.1 Students will communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, in and across disciplinary styles and for various audiences and contexts.
2.2 Students will, as individual researchers/scholars as well as in collaboration with others, solve or creatively respond to a current complex problem drawing on two or more disciplinary approaches.
Goal III: Students will apply an interdisciplinary approach to an area of specialization.
3.1 Ethnic Studies students will compare and contrast the experiences of different ethnic groups in the United States and/or abroad.
3.2 Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies students will apply feminist and other critical perspectives to examine the ways that gender intersects with race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nation