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Interdisciplinary Studies

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Learn More Through Interdisciplinary Studies

Assumption University’s Interdisciplinary Studies will help you understand an area of study with new insight, by connecting and integrating thoughts and theories across a range of fields and subjects. By coming together across disciplines through innovative lessons and teaching styles, Assumption’s dedicated faculty will help you build the critical thinking skills you’ll need to succeed and provide you with the in-depth knowledge that will help you stand out above the crowd. You’ll learn there’s more to a subject area than you once thought, or develop a whole new way of thinking that will help you understand the world in a different way.

The University offers the following programs in interdisciplinary studies:

  • Community Service Learning
  • Core Texts and Enduring Questions (CTEQ)
  • Law, Ethics and Constitutional Studies (LEX)
  • Racial and Ethnic Studies (RES)
  • Women’s Studies

Community Service-Learning

Undergraduate

Core Texts & Enduring Questions

Undergraduate

History

Undergraduate

Honors Program

Undergraduate

Law, Ethics and Constitutional Studies

Undergraduate

Political Science

Undergraduate

Racial and Ethnic Studies

Undergraduate

Theology

Undergraduate

Women's Studies

Undergraduate

Interdisciplinary Studies at Assumption

      • Learn more about the role women have played in history and society, and how ideas of what it means to be a woman have evolved over time, through the women’s studies program
      • Seek out the connections among your courses, and between those courses and life outside the classroom, in a supportive learning community through the University’ honors program
      • Gain a better understanding of the world around you while making a difference in the lives of others through community service learning
      • Engage with the law, ethics and constitutionalism  by examining the thinkers and texts who have shaped the Western intellectual tradition with the law, ethics, and constitutional studies (LEX) program
      • Ask questions about what is ultimately good, true, and beautiful, and dive into deep discussion on these topics and more in the Core Texts and Enduring Questions (CTEQ) program.
      • Participate in Global Studies classes and explore how different societies affect, and are affected by, economic growth, migration, climate change, poverty, conflict, and geo-locational constraints.

      • Discover the historical transformations, significance, and social frameworks of multi-racial and ethnic societies through the scope of different scholarly perspectives with the Racial and Ethnic Studies (RES) minor