Liberal Studies Sample Themes

Students can choose to combine undergraduate courses offered by departments and programs from various disciplines and schools. Here are a few sample concentrations to help get you started thinking critically and creatively about the array of topics that lend themselves well to multidisciplinary exploration.

Film, Literature, and the Urban Experience

This topic combines media, art, and literary theory with social and urban analysis to explore visual, written, and artistic representations of the urban experience in domestic or global contexts.

Courses may be drawn from departments and programs such as but not limited to Film Studies; English Literature; English Writing; Foreign Languages; History of Art & Architecture; Anthropology; History; Urban Studies; Sociology; Religious Studies, and others.

Health, Societies, and In/Equality

This concentration examines perspectives on health care, policy processes, and ethical decision-making through the lens of social sciences research and theoretical frameworks.

Courses may be drawn from departments and programs such as but not limited to Anthropology; Africana Studies; Sociology; Political Science; Psychology; Public Service; Public Health; Nursing; Social Work; Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies; Economics; History and Philosophy of Science; Religious Studies, etc.

Data Science and the Liberal Arts

This concentration seeks to integrate data science into liberal arts learning by focusing on the interpretation and communication of data as well as decision-making and its application to a subject area.

Courses may be drawn from departments and programs such as Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science; Economics; Biology; Political Science; Information Science; Communication; Philosophy; Business, and more.