Coming Soon - New Degrees in IAS!
IAS is expanding rapidly!
In 2008-09, we will add six exciting new faculty members in biology, cultural studies, interdisciplinary arts, physics, and policy studies. We have also added three new staff members in the IAS undergraduate and graduate offices this year. They are helping to develop the community-based research and learning networks that underwrite our curriculum and to coordinate our alumni relations and international programs.
All of this growth is related to our new curricular developments. Pending final approvals, we plan in 2008 and/or 2009 to add five new undergraduate degrees in Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Individualized Study; Interdisciplinary Arts; and Science, Technology, and Society. Additional degrees in Biological Sciences and Media and Communication Studies are on the horizon. Details about these new opportunities will appear soon on this site.
When people ask me about these new developments, I tell them that our curriculum is designed to provide students with access to the best of the new academic areas that have emerged over the last few decades. Rather than reproducing the 20th-century university with its separate disciplines and unconnected curricula, we are building a 21st-century university where the students learn to draw connections across diverse fields of study and to link academic work with real life experiences.
Bruce Burgett, Professor and Interim Director
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences