Interdisciplinary Studies

Interdisciplinary Studies

Create your own individualized, cutting-edge degree tailored to your interests and future aspirations.
The BA in Interdisciplinary Studies provides you with unparalleled opportunities to discover your passions
and supports you in building an academic program around your own areas of interest.

The range of possibilities is nearly limitless!
Whether you're interested in making a positive impact in society, pursuing a career in teaching, becoming an entrepreneur, advocating for nature, working in healthcare, helping others as a social worker or counselor, working for the government or pursuing research, the BA in Interdisciplinary Studies empowers you to chart your own future.

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4 years120 units
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Bachelor of Arts

Opportunity to pursue a broader range of interest in 4 years with approximately 40 courses.

Program structure

Course sequence

3 years90 units
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Bachelor of Arts

Opportunity to acquire a solid foundation in 3 years with approximately 30 courses.

Program structure

Course sequence

Honours program, major, minor?

Discover our program structures

The interdisciplinary advantage

The most complex problems that we face today, including life’s biggest questions, cannot be addressed through a single perspective. The BA in Interdisciplinary Studies will help you transform your broad curiosity and creativity into a career-oriented degree program.

Select from the five following categories to build your own program:

  • English (ENG)
  • Interdisciplinary Studies in Arts, Humanities and Languages (AHL) (Only AHL 1100 and AHL 1900 qualify as basic skills courses)
  • Philosophy (PHI)

What are AHL courses? A course that allows you to expand your horizons, to confront views from different fields, and to engage in the urgent debates of today and tomorrow. Each year our professors offer courses under the interdisciplinary course code AHL, which you can choose as electives in your program.

Combinations

To help you design your program, here are some examples of possible combinations:

3 years90 units
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BA with a Minor in Creative Writing

Basic skills courses: 12 units
English (ENG), Philosophy (PHI), Arts, Humanities and Languages (AHL)

Minor in Creative Writing: 30 units

Elective courses: 48 units

3 years90 units
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BA with Microprogram in Animal Studies

Basic skills courses: 12 units
English (ENG), Philosophy (PHI), Arts, Humanities and Languages (AHL)

Microprogram in Animal Studies: 15 units

Elective courses: 63 units

Scholarships and Bursaries

Our scholarship program is one of the most generous in the country. It rewards not only your pre-university academic achievements, but also your achievements every term of full-time study at University. A scholarship is awarded for academic achievements while a bursary is awarded based on financial need.
Learn more about Scholarships and Bursaries
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