Core: Interdisciplinary Concentration Seminar

Interdisciplinary Concentration Seminar

The Concentration Seminar is designed to assist you with your development and writing of an interdisciplinary concentration. It will serve as a forum for discussion, guidance, and support during the proposal writing process. You will work collaboratively with your seminar, your instructor, and your concentration committee, to write your learning proposal and identify relevant courses and experiences to help you achieve your educational goals.

• What questions do you want to explore in your Interdisciplinary Concentration? (Are you asking questions, for example, about inequalities, ecology, musical cultures, or performance?)
• Why are these questions important enough intellectually, politically, personally, socially or professionally to form the basis for your Interdisciplinary Concentration? (Have other scholars asked related questions to yours?)

Your challenge in the Concentration Seminar is a two- or three-fold one.

• First, you must answer the question of why your concentration matters to your own satisfaction.
• Second, you want to communicate the reasons why your concentration’s questions matter to your committee and to the mythical “average reader” in your rationale.
• Third, you must identify the set of courses, independent study projects, internships, or other forms of experiential learning that allow you to explore your underlying questions about your subject in the rest of your time at Fairhaven College.