Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS)

Interdisciplinary Studies is a primary option within the ILA. It is devoted to innovative, exploratory and problem-based interdisciplinary graduate education. Students work with a faculty committee on specific research questions, theories of interpretation, and/or areas of cultural study. The methods, materials, and objects with which a student works are defined by both the demands of the particular research project and the research interests and expertise of the ILA faculty. Students work with at least two of the ILA core faculty, whose ongoing interests and approaches most closely approximate their own. In addition to individual faculty interests (outlined on this website), on-going research groups constitute themselves within and beyond the ILA. Students may be admitted to work within Interdisciplinary Studies and align themselves with one of these research groups.

Through the graduate experience in the ILA students acquire the ability to define and execute a viable and original research project, master the methods appropriate to this project, work collaboratively, generate undergraduate courses based on their research, present their scholarship to a general, non-technical public through a wide range of media, and define their knowledge and expertise within an ever-changing world.

For further information, please contact Tracy Allen at tblando@emory.edu.