Write Your Own Program. Interdisciplinary Studies

Filling in a schedule for Fall can be challenge especially if you have not yet found a major.   Planet College offers often a variety of choices.  Students who enter as undeclared find that selecting a major can become difficult as the terms parade on.  For some particularly inventive students Interdisciplinary Studies may provide a solution to the 'undeclared' dilemma .

Interdisciplinary Studies combine subjects for two and sometimes even more programs.  With this as an option interdisciplinary studies students have the opportunity to essentially write their own program.

Provided your campus offers and Interdisciplinary program the process is involving but rewarding. Usually the co-operation of two separate programs are required. This involves surveying the courses from both departments and selecting the classes which will fulfill the requirements you have set for your program.

Before any of this first determine whether you campus offers such a program. If it does find out the details from the designated office. If this is not The Registration office then learn which office does handle this program. Once you do find the supervision office follow through, which usually means signatures, is crucial.

The extra work an Interdisciplinary Studies program requires can definitely pay off at graduation and beyond.  Constructing your own college program and graduating according to your own requirements is a significant achievement which you will value long after you have left school.