Interdisciplinary Concentration Seminar

Your challenge in the Interdisciplinary Concentration Seminar is to create a concentration proposal that charts your course of interdisciplinary learning at Fairhaven College. Rather than electing to complete a major in a discipline that has prescribed learning goals and course requirements that fulfill those learning goals, you are opting to create your own interdisciplinary major. 

What questions do you want to explore in your Interdisciplinary Concentration? Are you asking questions, for example, about inequalities, ecology, musical cultures, performance – the list is endless? How do interdisciplinary frames and approaches help you to explore your questions about the world?  

To complete your Concentration Proposal, you will be required to:  

• write a rationale and learning goals,  
• identify two or three themes that define your interdisciplinary concentration 
• map out a Senior Project related to these themes 
• compile a list of courses that you have already completed and expect to complete that will satisfy the goals of your concentration proposal.  
• assemble a Concentration Committee composed of a Chair who is a Fairhaven Faculty member who you will work closely with to complete your proposal and Senior Project plus two committee members who can speak to specific aspects of the themes of your concentration. 

Like anything worth doing, writing the concentration is hard work. You will have plenty of help over the course of the term from course instructors, faculty advisors and fellow students. You are encouraged to read concentrations of Fairhaven graduates in the cabinet near room 314 to help you shape your own concentration. You are also strongly urged to use the services of a writing coach at the Hacherl Research and Writing Studio in Wilson Library to help with the writing process.