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The ILA provides a unique intellectual environment for the pursuit of research and teaching that cuts across conventional academic boundaries.

Advancing the Liberal Arts - Undergrad Programs

AMST major Erin Oquindo and Dr Kim Loudermilk

American Studies Major

Focuses on interdisciplinary topics distinctive of the United States and broader Americas - a recognized subfield within interdisciplinary studies

IDS major Matthew Heldman in front of IDS poster

Interdisciplinary Studies Major

Based on the hypothesis that to deeply understand some, if not all, subjects then study must be drawn from more than one discipline

IDEAS Fellowship Program

Undergraduate students from any major who want to learn to think across and between disciplines and make their own liberal arts experience more coherent

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Apply for 2022 Empowering Interdisciplinarity Graduate Workshop

Mar. 25, 2022

Our annual workshop for graduate students on interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship is now accepting applications. The deadline to apply is 5pm on March 4, 2022.

Mar. 18, 2022

The Nat C. Robertson Endowment in Science & Society, in collaboration with the Institute for the Liberal Arts (ILA), requests applications for this inaugural year-long graduate student fellowship from September 1, 2022-August 31, 2023.

Apr. 26, 2022

All ILA juniors present research proposals; ILA seniors present research results. All ILA majors are expected to join virtually as attendees if they are able.