Welcome to the Office for Cross Disciplinary Studies (CDS). Our office serves and facilitates cross disciplinary curriculum development and regional and area studies minors with cross-college identities.
The Mission of Cross Disciplinary Studies
- to inform and guide new program proposals through the curriculum approval process
- to support faculty and students in cross disciplinary teaching, learning and research
- to facilitate program initiatives and activities that would benefit from coordinated conversation and development and which share the expanding knowledge vision of Cross Disciplinary Studies.
Islamic Panel, 11th century; Fatimid period (909–1171). Attributed to Egypt. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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