Interdisciplinary Studies, Bachelor of Science
Interdisciplinary studies combine courses from three or more academic disciplines into one major. This creative and flexible program is ideal for students who have broad academic interests and want to pursue multiple areas of study.
Personalize your studies with two or more topics of focus. Build a degree unique to your passions and goals. You’ll select a concentration from three different defined fields of study into one major for your degree.
Or working with the program director, customize your degree even more by developing your own study specialization. Establish a central organizing theme around a selection of courses in a discipline of interest from across the university including computing and technology and education.
Admission Requirements
City University of Seattle's undergraduate admission requirements, found under Admissions in the catalog menu, apply to this program.
Total Required Credits (180 Credits)
Lower Division Requirements (90 Credits)
Students must meet General Education requirements. This is typically completed within the 90 required lower division credits. See the General Education Requirements section of this catalog for more detailed information.
For this program, Quantitative/Symbolic Reasoning is met through the course MATH 107 Mathematical Reasoning and its Applications or higher.
|
General Education Requirements
|
Total Credits
|
|
College Composition (CC) I** & II
|
10 Credits
|
|
Quantitative/Symbolic Reasoning (QSR)
|
5 Credits
|
|
Humanities (HU)
|
10 Credits
|
|
Social Sciences (SS)
|
15 Credits
|
|
Natural Sciences (NS)
|
15 Credits
|
**If College Composition I is waived through transfer or articulation, students must take an additional 5 quarter credits from a humanities discipline.
Major (60 Credits)
Select three disciplines (20 credits each) from below. Students may petition the program director to create one or more of their own study specializations to apply .
Business, Management & Technology Sections
| Business and Management | |
| BUS 300 | Business Dynamics | 5 |
| BSM 414 | International Management | 5 |
| HR 405 | Strategic Management of Human Resources | 5 |
| MG 360 | Financial Fundamentals for Managers * | 5 |
| Organizational Leadership | |
| BC 306 | Ethics and Leadership (SS) | 5 |
| BSC 407 | The Effective Organization | 5 |
| BUS 304 | Organizational Behavior and Leadership (SS) | 5 |
| BUS 464 | Design of Effective Teams and Organizations | 5 |
| Marketing | |
| MK 300 | Principles of Marketing | 5 |
| MK 388 | Global Marketing * | 5 |
| MK 390 | Advertising & Sales Promotion * | 5 |
| MK 403 | Public Relations * | 5 |
| Data Analysis | |
| BUS 426 | Business Analytics for Decision Making (NS) | 5 |
| BUS 440 | Introduction to Data Science * | 5 |
| BUS 442 | Advanced Tools in Business Analytics * | 5 |
| BUS 446 | Data Visualization and Dashboards * | 5 |
| Project and Change Management | |
| PM 401 | Introduction to Project Management | 5 |
| PM 406 | Project Risk and Change Management | 5 |
| PM 442 | Introduction to System Dynamics | 5 |
| PM 444 | Negotiation and Competitive Decision Making | 5 |
| Finance and Operations | |
| BUS 315 | Financial Accounting * | 5 |
| BUS 317 | Finance * | 5 |
| BUS 320 | Technology and Operations Management | 5 |
| BUS 330 | Economic Analysis for Business Decisions (SS) | 5 |
Social & Human Services Selections
| Adolescent Psychology | |
| PSY 415 | Psychology of Adolescents (SS) | 5 |
| PSY 422 | Child Psychology (SS) | 5 |
| SOC 320 | Juvenile Delinquency (SS) | 5 |
| SOC 412 | Sociology of the Family (SS) | 5 |
| Health and Wellness | |
| SCI 306 | Health and Wellness (NS) | 5 |
| PSY 418 | Psychology of Substance Abuse (SS) | 5 |
| SOC 306 | Sociology of Health, Illness, and Medicine (SS) | 5 |
| SOC 318 | Gerontology (SS) | 5 |
| Criminal Justice | |
| CJ 318 | Fundamentals of Criminology (HU or SS) | 5 |
| CJ 341 | Contemporary Justice Administration Issues | 5 |
| CJ 350 | Globalization and Crime (HU or SS) | 5 |
| CJ 361 | Cyber and Surveillance Law and Government (SS or HU) | 5 |
| Student Specialization | |
Students pursuing the Student Specialization option may create a student-designed discipline selection. This option must be pre-approved by the Program Director.
Electives (25 Credits)
Students must select twenty-five credits at the 300/400 level. Electives may incorporate classes from above, individual classes from other areas of study not listed, and/or transfer credits.
Capstone (5 Credits)
| GS 495 | General Studies Degree Capstone * | 5 |