Degree Title
Bachelor of Arts
Summer A 2025 Start Date:
May 5, 2025
Summer B 2025 Start Date:
June 16, 2025
Overview
The Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies is our most customizable bachelor's degree. Whether you're just starting your undergraduate degree, you've taken college courses elsewhere, or you're ready to transfer, this degree takes into account where you have been, what your interests and abilities are now, and how best to propel you forward into your wished-for career.
Take the next step.
This fully online degree program is designed to match your academic and entrepreneurial talent to new or emerging job categories, which will increasingly require those with unique, multi-dimensional skill sets. The degree draws upon courses within the College of Arts, Sciences & Education as well as other selected FIU schools and colleges. With its individualized focus, our program gives you the flexibility to design a degree that's specifically aligned with your career goals. To ensure that student interests, previous academic history, and career plans coincide, two dedicated courses are integrated into the degree requirements:
- Capstone — taken during your final year, this course includes service-learning, internship or research project options to prepare for graduation and beyond.
The program's administrators, advisors, and staff will assist you in aligning your current situation with your future goals. Whether you are a new, transfer or returning student, this program can help guide you to a course of study that reflects your aspirations and individuality.
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Why Apply?
Your Future Career Can Be As Unique As You Are.
Prepare to engage the world through your unique knowledge and skill set, enhanced by an innovative, multidisciplinary curriculum. An Interdisciplinary Studies bachelor's degree provides students with a broad learning experience. The professional goals and dreams of interdisciplinary students are as unique as each student. Interdisciplinary studies will develop in each student the ability to:
- Make meaningful and effective connections across disciplines
- Identify and incorporate discussions of cultural, political, artistic and religious diversity
- Critically analyze and evaluate alternative points of view
- Demonstrate "real world" application of knowledge and skills via the Capstone course
You will cap-off your education in your specialization by developing an investigative Capstone project that uses an interdisciplinary approach to understand an issue or problem related to your specialization. A well-written Capstone project, with its applied emphasis, can showcase to a prospective employer or graduate school your ability to work independently.
Connect Confidently.
Whether you choose to pursue a career or advanced studies, this fully online degree program allows you the freedom to forge your own course of study. For example, you may select courses in art, psychology, and education with the goal of becoming an art therapist. Or, you could choose an array of marine biology, earth and environment and writing courses to pursue a career as a staff writer for a public or private sustainability organization. The course-path options are many and varied, and the possibilities are virtually limitless. The program advisors and coaches draw upon the resources of FIU's Career Services and other career development professionals to identify emergent job categories that will require "out-of-the-box" interdisciplinary thinking and training.
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Courses
For more information on the Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies program please visit the FIU Course Catalog. If you would like to view the specific courses related to the program, please use the breadcrumbs on the Course Catalog to go back and select the “Courses” tab.
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Admissions
For more information on the admissions process and how to apply please visit the FIU Admissions website.
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Tuition
We’re thrilled that you’re considering online education and want you to know exactly what to expect for tuition and fees. Education is an investment in your future. Use the following student tuition and fees calculator to determine your costs.
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Top Faculty
Dr. Bruce Harvey
Dr. Harvey is director of liberal studies and an associate professor of English. His research interests include pre-Civil War American literature and culture, as well as Post-Renaissance European intellectual and cultural history. He is also the Associate Director of the School of Environment, Arts and Society (SEAS), part of the College of Arts, Sciences & Education. SEAS unites socially and environmentally-oriented faculty in an effort to better understand and address the challenges that arise from the interaction between human and environmental systems. Through research, education, and an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, SEAS strives to bring about positive and tangible changes to local, national and, international levels.Dr. Grenville Draper
Dr. Draper associate director of liberal studies and a professor of Earth and Environment. He is a geologist whose research focuses on the use of structural and metamorphic information to develop models for the tectonic evolution of the Caribbean. His research has included field studies in Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Dr. Draper is Chair of the Standing Committee of the Caribbean Geological Conference series and is on the editorial boards if International Geology Review and Geologica Acta.
120 Credits Required
235.57 Per Credit Hour (In-State) + Fees
648.87 Per Credit Hour (Out-of-State) + Fees
* Total tuition and fees are subject to change.
Highlights
- Fully online degree
- Transfer credits accepted; reviewed on an individual basis and subject to program approval
- Every online undergraduate student is paired with a success coach
- Design a degree that aligns with your goals
- Unique Capstone project prepares you for after graduation
- Program starts; Fall, Spring, Summer
- Become part of an exceptional community and make the most of your education. Join the Honors College.