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Interdisciplinary Programs
As a student in the Arts and Sciences, you have access to more than 1,000 faculty members in 41 departments. Translation: your opportunities for combining majors, adding minors, and creating your own mix of disciplines are virtually endless.
Interdisciplinary Majors
International Studies
Ohio State's flagship interdisciplinary program demonstrates the collaborative nature of drawing from diverse academic disciplines, allowing you to choose from 10 tracks, or specializations, that allow you to explore a distinct subject or to focus on a particular region of the world. Please contact foster.24@osu.edu for additional information.
Middle Childhood Education
Designed to provide an initial preparation for prospective middle childhood teachers. Under Ohio licensure requirements, a middle childhood teacher must specialize in any two of four subject-matter fields: reading and language arts, social studies, mathematics, and science. Please contact kofsky.1@osu.edu for additional information.
Film Studies
Analyze and explore how art, history, languages, popular culture, and communication continue to shape film. Along with faculty from nine departments in the Arts and Sciences, the film curators of the Wexner Center for the Arts help oversee the major. Please contact filmstudies@osu.edu for additional information.
Globalization Studies
Globalization is a complex set of processes that affect virtually all facets of our daily lives-the arts, culture, economics, politics, immigration, climate, and health. The major will help students to understand better our increasingly multicultural society and will provide them with knowledge relevant to a wide variety of careers. Be sure to visit Arts and Sciences Curriculum and Assessment site. Please contact hawkins.174@osu.edu for additional information.
Interdisciplinary Minors/Programs
Arts and Sciences offers a wide range of interdisciplinary minors with more in development.
- Aging
- American Indian Studies
- American Sign Language
- Asian American Studies
- Cognitive Science
- Critical and Cultural Theory
- Disability Studies
- Evolutionary Studies
- Film Studies
- Forensic Science
- Globalization Studies
- International Studies
- Latino/a Studies
- Legal Foundations of Society
- Media Production and Analysis
- Neuroscience
- Popular Culture Studies
- Sexuality Studies
- Societal Perspectives about Science and Technology
- Survey Research
- Work in a Changing Economy
Be sure to visit Arts and Sciences Curriculum and Assessment site to view the required coursework for each of the minors listed above.
Special Interdisciplinary Programs
We also offer two special programs that cross departmental boundaries.
Freshman Seminars―Small, discussion-based seminars where distinguished faculty introduce first-year students to topical and cutting-edge research areas from a wide variety of disciplines.
Professional Pathways―Seminars to help Ohio State sophomores and juniors explore professional career paths (including graduate and professional post-secondary educational opportunities, as well as the myriad of occupational options) and current professional issues.
Contact
For more information, please contact Terry L. Gustafson, Associate Executive Dean for Interdisciplinary Programs, gustafson.5@osu.edu, (614) 292-6736.
