Interdisciplinary Studies

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Preparing for the future requires problem solving that goes beyond prefabricated compartments. While courses within academic departments pursue inquiry within traditional categories of expertise, interdisciplinary studies (IDS) courses offer the exciting challenge of integrating knowledge using multiple disciplinary perspectives.

Hope’s Interdisciplinary Studies coures fulfill the First Year Seminar and Senior Seminar Anchor Plan  requirements, as well as a few courses required for interdisciplinary majors and minors.

Courses

• IDS 100 - First Year Seminar
• IDS 160 - Arts for the Elementary and Middle School Teacher
• IDS 195 - Special Topics
• IDS 200 - Encounter with Cultures
• IDS 280 - Contemporary Issues in Japan
• IDS 295 - Special Topics
• IDS 296 - Peace and Justice Studies
• IDS 329 - Transitioning into the Health Professions
• IDS 395 - Interdisciplinary Studies
• IDS 490 - Individual Study
• IDS 495 - Special Interdisciplinary Studies

• IDS 452 - Education and Christian Ways of Living
• IDS 492 - Senior Seminar
• IDS 492V - Vienna: Values in Transit Senior Seminar

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