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student-designed interdisciplinary majors (SDIM)

(from the College catalog)

Students may design their own interdisciplinary major programs in consultation with faculty advisers and with the Committee on Student-Designed Interdisciplinary Majors and Minors, subject to the approval of that committee. For further information on qualifications and procedures, students should consult the Committee on Student-Designed Interdisciplinary Majors and Minors. Such major programs will include:

1. A solid core of study in one discipline or in a closely articulated group of courses in two or more disciplines;
 

2. Overall coherence or unity in the form of a central topic, theme or problem;

3. An integrative project - Individual Study, Honors Study or an appropriate seminar.

Student-designed interdisciplinary majors are normally formulated and approved in the second semester of the sophomore year and no later than the first semester of the junior year. A student who proposes a student-designed major during the junior year must choose an established major temporarily from the core area of the intended interdisciplinary major until the proposal has been approved.

Students who pursue interdisciplinary majors must take both an introductory course, which surveys the content of the component discipline, and a capstone seminar led by the director of the interdisciplinary program. No student shall be deemed to have completed an interdisciplinary major unless either a minor in a component discipline has also been completed or four courses in one of the component disciplines have been completed, no more than two of which are at the introductory level.

Procedures and policies for establishing an SDIM