Liberal Studies Sample Themes

Explore Sample Concentrations

Students can combine undergraduate courses offered by departments and programs across disciplines and schools. These sample concentrations can help you start thinking critically and creatively about topics that lend themselves 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, and others.

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.

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