B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies at SUNY Polytechnic Institute (formerly SUNYIT)
Connecting Knowledge in an Interconnected World
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The individualized, integrative Interdisciplinary Studies Program at SUNY Polytechnic Institute empowers students to set their own educational and professional goals and design a course of study that enables them to achieve those goals.
Our graduates have become lawyers, teachers, librarians, and entrepreneurs, and have pursued careers in both the private and public sectors.
Graduates of IDS have been accepted to some of the nation's top graduate programs, including to Syracuse University's School of Information Studies, New York University's Steinhart School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and SUNY Buffalo's School of Law.
Our mission is to engage in critical inquiry into the relationships among culture, society, and technology and to understand how these interactions shape the world in which we live. We strive to do so in a manner that is humanistic in orientation, interdisciplinary in breadth, historical and cross-cultural in scope, and integrative in vision.
We adopt this perspective because we believe that a complex and interconnected world is best understood not from a single point of view but through interdisciplinary inquiry that can explore and integrate knowledge from different fields. We also believe that in a dynamic and fast-changing society, flexibility and adaptability are as important for success and innovation as is specialization. The B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies prepares students for a diverse range of educational, professional, and occupational goals, including graduate study, law school, teacher education, and careers in the public and private sectors in which possessing a wide range of knowledge and skills is an asset. By encouraging students to individualize their program of study, we enable them to identify, explore, and develop their own intellectual and professional interests and, by gaining a deeper understanding of the social, cultural, and historical contexts in which they live, to creatively engage and take advantage of the opportunities presented by our modern world.
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