Interdisciplinary Programs

Loyola's interdisciplinary studies programs give students the chance to examine topics from multiple perspectives, explore issues that emerge at the intersection of academic disciplines, and think creatively about themes and problems across departmental boundaries. These programs draw on the broad intellectual resources of the university and the specialized expertise of teacher-scholars in a variety of departments. Students interested in interdisciplinary study may choose among three majors and thirteen minors.

Interdisciplinary Majors

Interdisciplinary Minors

 

African & African-American Studies

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The African and African-American Studies minor is composed of the following 21 hours:

Choose one of the following history courses:

  • HIST A276 African American History to 1865
  • HIST A277 African American History Since 1865
  • HIST A349 Africa to 1880
  • HIST A350 Africa 1880 to Present
  • HIST A352 Women in African History
  • HIST A442 History of Southern Africa
  • HIST Q232 Africa & Its Diasporas
  • HIST Q262 Comparative Social Movements
 3 crs.

Choose one of the following humanities courses:

  • CLHU A347 Egyptian Art & Archaeology
  • ENGL A331 Introduction to African American Literature
  • ENGL A332 African-American Literature since 1900
  • ENGL A335 Post-Colonial Literature
  • ENGL A373 The Black Writer in America
  • ENGL A450 Black Aesthetics
  • ENGL N210 Global Identities
  • ENGL N216 Post-Colonial and Ethnic American Lit.
  • ENGL N230 WAL: Modern African American Literature 
  • MUGN O272 Jazz in American Culture
  • THEA O243 Black Theater 1940 - Present
 3 crs.

Choose one of the following social sciences courses:

  • SOCI A204 Introduction to Haitian Society and Culture
  • SOCI A352 Global Race/Ethnic Relations
  • SOCI A375 U.S. Civil Rights Movement
  • SOCI X255 Race, Racism, and Privilege
  • SOCI X260 Race, Class, and Schools
 3 crs.

Electives. Choose four courses from any of the courses listed. Please check with the program director for additional course offerings and seminars that may be eligible for AAST program completion.

 12 crs.

2.0 GPA required. 

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American Studies

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The American Studies Minor is composed of the following 21 hours:
ENGL A243 American Masterworks 3 crs.
HIST A200 U.S. History to 1865 3 crs.

Choose one of the following Social Science courses:

  • POLS A100 Intro to American Government
  • POLS A200 Comparative Government 1
  • POLS A211 The American Presidency
  • POLS A213 American Political Thought
  • POLS A310 Money in American Politics
  • SOCI A220 Social Protest Movements
  • SOCI A365 The Sixties
  • SOCI A375 U.S. Civil Rights Movement
  • SOCI X255 Race, Racism, & Privilege
 3 crs.

Choose one of the following Humanities courses:

  • MUGN O272 Jazz in American Culture
  • PHIL A430 American Philosophy
  • RELS V267 Native American Religions
  • THEA O243 Black Theatre 1940 to Present
  • THEA O250 American Musical Theatre
 3 crs.

Choose three of the follwing elective courses when not already taken:

  • ENGL A244 American Literature Since 1900
  • ENGL A250 Introduction to African-American Literature
  • ENGL A251 African-American Literature Since 1900
  • ENGL A349 Twentieth-Century American Fiction
  • ENGL A373 The Black Writer in America
  • ENGL A433 19th Century American Fiction
  • ENGL A434 American Romanticism
  • ENGL A438 Southern Literature
  • ENGL A439 American Drama
  • ENGL O256 American Regionalism
  • ENGL O305 Harrison Ford - American Hero
  • HIST A201 U.S. History from 1865
  • HIST A230 U.S. Legal History 1 or 
    HIST A231 U.S. Legal History 2 or 
    HIST A232 American Trials
  • HIST A276 African-American History to 1865
  • HIST A277 African-American History since 1865
  • HIST A330 American Beginnings
  • HIST A332 Revolutionary America
  • HIST A336 History of the Old South
  • HIST A337 The New South
  • HIST A338 Civil War and Reconstruction
  • HIST A340 U.S.: Gilded and Progressive Eras
  • HIST A342 U.S.: The 20's and the 30's
  • HIST A343 WWII to Present
  • HIST A405 Early American Indians
 9 crs.

Check with AMST advisor for AMST-eligible First-Year Seminar courses. 

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Asian Studies

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The Asian Studies minor includes the following 21 hours:

Choose two of the following courses from different societies (Japan, China, or India):

  • HIST A370 History of India
  • HIST A390 China to 1644
  • HIST A391 Modern China
  • JPNS O250 Culture in Pre-Modern Japan
 6 crs.

Choose and additional 15 credits of "Asian Studies" designated courses (if not taken above):

  • CHIN A100 First Year Chinese I
  • CHIN A101 First Year Chinese II
  • CHIN A201 Intermediate Chinese II
  • HIST/JPNS A287 East Asian History
  • HIST A288 Middle East & Islam
  • HIST A289 Middle East 1600 - Present
  • HSIT A313 Islam in China
  • HIST/JPNS A360 Punishment and Power in Modern Japan
  • HIST A370 History of India
  • HIST A390 China to 1644
  • HIST A391 Modern China
  • HIST/JPNS A392 Japanese History I
  • HIST/JPNS A393 Japanese History II
  • JPNS A100 Modern Japanese I
  • JPNS A101 Modern Japanese II
  • JPNS A200 Intermediate Japanese I
  • JPNS A201 Intermediate Japanese II
  • JPNS A480 Capstone
  • JPNS N250/O250 Culture in Pre-Modern Japan
  • JPNS O267 Japanese Film & Culture
  • POLS A315 International Relations
  • POLS A320 U.S. Foreign Policy
  • RELS A310 Religions of Asia
  • POLS X325 International Relations of East Asia
  • RELS A411 Hindu Theology
  • RELS V253 Varieties of Hindu Traditions
  • RELS V260 Introduction to Islam
  • RELS V277 Tibetan & Indian Religions
  • RELS V377 Buddhism Across Asia
 15 crs.

Please check with the program director for additional course offerings and seminars that may be eligible for ASST program completion.

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Catholic Studies

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The Catholic Studies minor includes the following 21 hours:
RELS S247 New Testament as Literature (or N.T. equivalent course approved by Catholic Studies Director)  3

RELS S252 Catholicism

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Must include at least one additional Catholic Studies course in the Department of Religious Studies and at least two courses in departments other than religious studies. Courses include:

  • ENGL A316 Medieval Literature
  • HIST A304 Early Christianity
  • HIST A306 Middle Ages
  • HIST A307 Saints & Demons in Medieval Europe
  • HIST A310 Age of Reformation
  • HIST P240 Women in the Middle Ages
  • HIST P256 The Crusades
  • PHIL A340 Being and God
  • PHIL A405 History of Medieval Philosophy
  • PHIL A408 Thomas Aquinas
  • PHIL A491 Seminar: Medieval Philosophy
  • PHIL U270 Philosophy and Religion in the Middle Ages
  • PHIL U278 Philosophy of God
  • PHYS Y130/RELS S330 Faith, Science, and Religion
  • RELS A200 Early Christian Thought
  • RELS A201 Medieval Christian Thought
  • RELS A255 Synoptic Gospels
  • RELS A300 Pauline Writings
  • RELS A315 Johannine Literature
  • RELS A320 The Christian God
  • RELS A350 Christology
  • RELS A354 Dynamics of Salvation
  • RELS A358 Ecumenical Theology
  • RELS A400 Theology of Vatican II
  • RELS S220 Bibilcal Literature in Roman and Medieval Context
  • RELS S238 Christianity and Liberation
  • RELS S242 Christian Ethics
  • RELS S270 Jesus Christ
  • RELS S330/PHYS Y130 Faith, Science, and Religion
  • RELS S336 Parables of Jesus
  • RELS S339 Experience of Grace
  • RELS S344 Social Policy and the Christian
  • RELS S348 Christian Origins
  • RELS S358 Ignatius Loyola
  • RELS S386 Medieval Synthesis
  • RELS S388 Sin: History of an Idea

 

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Please check with the program director for additional course offerings and seminars that may be eligible for CATH program completion.

 

Computational Science

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The Computational Science minor requires the following 21 -22 hours (depending on chosen option):
CPSC Core Courses  13 crs.
COSC A211 Intro. to Programming I 3 crs.
MATH A257 Calculus I 4 crs.
MATH A271 Applied Scientific Computing 3 crs.
MATH A375 Computational Mathematics 3 crs.
Choose one of the following four options: 8 or 9 crs.

Option 1: 9 crs.

  • MATH A258 Calculus II
  • COSC A212 Intro. to Programming II
  • Research A498: 2 crs. 

Option 2: 8 crs.

  • MATH A258 Calculus II
  • Research A498: 4 crs. 

Option 3: 8 crs.

  • PSYC A303 Statistics & Methods or
    MATH A260 Statistical Inference for Scientists or
    DESC B205 Business Statistics : 3 crs. 
  • A498 Research Project: 2 crs.
  • COSC A212 Introduction to Programming II or
    A498 Research Project: 3 crs.

Option 4: 8 crs.

  • COSC A212 Introduction to Programming II
  • Research A498 (5 crs)

 

2.0 GPA required for completion of program. 

Substitutions to the program will be permitted with the approval of the Director of Comptational Science.

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Environmental Studies

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Please see Environment Bulletin Entry

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Film Studies

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The Film Studies Minor requires 21 credit hours. Choose from the courses listed.  
  • ENGL A207 Reading Film
  • ENGL A220 Media & Mediation
  • ENGL A313 Feature Screenwriting 1
  • ENGL A314 Feature Screenwriting 2
  • ENGL A317 Writing the Short Script
  • ENGL A372 Studies in American Cinema*
  • ENGL A470 Film and the Art of Literary Adaptation
  • ENGL A472 Studies in European Cinema*
  • ENGL O228 The World of Tim Burton
  • FILM M115 Introduction to Digital Filmmaking
  • FILM M220 Audio for Film & Television
  • FILM M225 Script to Screen
  • FILM M425 Video Editing
  • MUGN M360 Live Sound Production
  • MUGN M435 Film Scoring

* These courses may be taken multiple times when the subject matter changes, in consultation with the Film Studies advisor. 

2.0 GPA required. ENGL courses taken in this minor may not be used in conjunction with an English major.

Please check with the program director for additional course offerings and seminars that may be eligible for FMST program completion.

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Game Studies

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The Game Studies minor requires 18 credit hours

Required Courses

  • ENGL A222 How to Do Things With Videogames
  • CMMN X202 Game As Art*

6 crs.

Primary Electives
Choose two of the following courses:

  • CMMN X236 Understanding Media
  • CMMN X237 Media Play or
    CMMN H295 Theories of Media Play
  • ENGL A220 Media and Mediation
  • ENGL N205 Videogames and Literature**

6 crs.

Secondary Electives
Choose two of the following courses:

  • CMMN A382 Social Media Strategies
  • ENGL A376 Technoculture
  • ENGL A444 Posthumanism
  • PHIL V277 Minds and Machines
  • PSYC X266 The Science of Good and Evil
  • SOCI A240 Sociology of Sport
  • SOCI A242 Sociology of Mardi Gras
  • VISA A373 Interactive & Electronic Media I
  • VISA A474 Interactive & Electronic Media II
 6 crs.
* The CMMN courses in this minor are only available to Mass Communication majors as non-minor credit (e.g. as common curriculum or elective credit courses). Mass Communication majors may pursue the Game Studies minor by substituting 3 crs. outside the major for CMMN X202 Game as Art. These 3 crs. will be chosen from the minor's elective course list with the approval of the minor adviser(s). 
** Game Studies minors may be given the option, with the approval fo the minor adviser(s), to substitute ENGL T121 Violence and Videogames for ENGL N205 Videogames and Literature. 

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Interdisciplinary Studies

The Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (ITDS) is only available to students in Loyola's Online Programs, which is designed for adult and non-traditional learners. The ITDS program is a full 120 credit hour undergraduate bachelor's degree. Program requirements: 

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Latin American Studies

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Please see the Languages & Cultures Bulletin entry. 

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Legal Studies

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The Legal Studies minor requires students to take seven courses, spread across at least two colleges and three departments.  No more than two courses may come from the same department.  Students may not use a course from their major to fulfill a minor requirement.

The Legal Studies minor requires 21 credit hours:
Total 21 hrs.

College of Arts & Sciences

Classical Studies 

  • CLHU A238 Justice in Greek Literature

Criminal Justice

  • CRIM A105 Introduction to Criminal Justice Systems
  • CRIM A110 Criminology: Fundamentals*
  • CRIM A313 Criminal Evidence
  • CRIM A320 Vioent Offencders
  • CRIM A330 Correctional Institutions*
  • CRIM A345 Seminar: Constitutional Law
  • CRIM A380 Ethics and Politics of Criminal Justice
  • CRIM A405 Criminal Law
  • CRIM A430 Legal Research and Writing

History

  • HIST A230 Law in Early America
  • HIST A231 Law and Modern America
  • HIST A232 American Trials
  • HIST A305 Medieval Crime and Community
  • HIST A360 Punishment and Power in Modern Japan*

Japanese 

  • JPNS A360 Punishment and Power in Modern Japan*

Mass Communication

  • CMMN A355 Covering the Courts
  • CMMN A401 Law of Mass Communication
  • CMMN A451 Media and American Courts

Philosophy

  • PHIL A225 Philosophy of Law
  • PHIL W234 Medical Ethics
  • PHIL W235 Ethics of Rights
  • PHIL W244 Law and Morality

Political Science

  • POLS A212 The Legislative Process
  • POLS A218 Courts/Judges/Politics
  • POLS A300 Constitutional Law I
  • POLS A301 Constitutional Law II
  • POLS X262 Law / Politics / Gay Rights

Psychology

  • PSYC A215 Psychology & the Law

Religious Studies

  • RELS A400 Theology of Vatican II
  • RELS S344 Social Policy and the Christian
  • RELS V228 Islamic Law
  • RELS V396 Law: Ancient World

Sociology

  • SOCI A215 Criminal Behavior
  • SOCI A315 Delinquency and Justice
  • SOCI X252 Violence in Society
  

College of Business 

  • ECON B330 Law and Economics
  • INTB B310 Law for International Relations*
  • LGST B200 Business Law
  • LGST B205 Legal Environment of Business
  • LGST B310 Law for International Business*
  

College of Music & Fine Arts

Music Industry Studies

  • MUIN M201 Arts & Entertainment Legal Issues I
  • MUIN M301 Legal Issues II
  

* Indicates course has crosslisted course.

2.0 GPA required. 

Please check with the program director for additional course offerings and seminars that may be eligible for LGST program completion.

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Medieval Studies

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The Medieval Studies minor requires 18 credit hours of the following courses:

Medieval History - choose one of the following: 

  • HIST A305 Medieval Crime & Community
  • HIST A306 Middle Ages
  • HIST A307 Saints & Demons in Medieval Europe
  • HIST P240 Women in the Middle Ages
  • HIST P256 The Crusades
 3 crs.

Medieval Literature - choose one of the following:

  • ENGL A316 Medieval Literature
  • ENGL A340 The Canterbury Tales
  • ENGL A424 Medieval Drama
  • ENGL O288 Vikings: Warrior Poets
  • ENGL O299 Arthurian Legend
  • SPAN A310 Survey of Spanish Literature
 3 crs.

Medieval Thought - choose one of the following:

  • PHIL A405 History of Medieval Philosophy
  • PHIL A408 Thomas Aquinas 
  • PHIL A491 Major Seminar: Medieval
  • PHIL U270 Philosophy and Religion in the Middle Ages
  • RELS S386 Medieval Synthesis
 3 crs.

Choose three courses listed below, if not taken to satisfy above requirements:

  • ARTH O206 Music & Art in the Middle Ages & Renaissance*
  • ARTH O220 Medieval Art
  • CLHU O274 Byzantine Empire
  • ENGL A215 World Literature I
  • ENGL A316 Medieval Literature
  • ENGL A340 The Canterbury Tales
  • ENGL A424 Medieval Drama
  • ENGL O288 Vikings: Warrior Poets
  • ENGL O299 Arthurian Legend
  • FREN A320 Culture and Civilization I
  • HIST A288 Middle East and Islam 600-1650
  • HIST A304 Early Christianity
  • HIST A305 Medieval Crime and Community
  • HIST A306 Middle Ages
  • HIST A307 Saints and Demons in Medieval Europe
  • HIST A381 English History to 1688
  • HIST P240 Women in Middle Ages
  • HIST P256 The Crusades
  • HIST P258 Medicine in the Medieval West
  • LATN A435 Medieval Latin
  • MUGN O206 Music & Art in the Middle Ages & Renaissance*
  • PHIL A405 History of Medieval Philosophy
  • PHIL A408 Thomas Aquinas
  • PHIL A491 Major Seminar: Medieval
  • PHIL U270 Philosophy and Religion in the Middle Ages
  • PHIL U278 Philosophy of God
  • POLS A230 History of Political Thought
  • RELS S285 Heretics & Heresy
  • RELS S386 Medieval Synthesis
  • SPAN A310 Survey of Spanish Literature
 9 crs.

* Indicates course has a cross-listed course. 

Please check with the program director for additional course offerings and seminars that may be eligible for MEST program completion.

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Middle East Peace Studies

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The Middle East Peace Studies minor is composed of the following 21 hours:

Required course:

  • HIST Q254 Palestinians & Israelis
 3 crs.

Choose three of the following courses:

Middle East Studies

  • ARAB A101 First Year Arabic II
  • HIST A288 History of the Middle East
  • HIST A289 History of the Middle East II
  • HIST A304 Early Christianity
  • HIST A357 Modern Iran
  • HIST P256 The Crusades
  • RELS V228 Islamic Law
  • RELS V246 Judaism
  • RELS V260 Introduction to Islam
 9 crs.

Choose 9 crs. of the courses listed below; with at least 1 course from each section:

Normative Views:

  • ENGL N212 WAL: How to Tell a True War Story
  • PHIL W235 Ethics of Rights

Historical and Institutional Practices:

  • HIST A235 Seminar in Global Issues (1.5 crs)* 
  • HIST A328 The Holocaust
  • HIST Q230 Oppression & Resistance
  • POLS A315 International Relations
  • POLS A320 U.S. Foreign Policy
  • POLS A341 International Organizations

* HIST A235 may be repeated one time with different course content.

 9 crs.

2.0 GPA required. 

Please check with the program director for additional course offerings and seminars that may be eligible for MEPS program completion.

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New Orleans Studies

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The New Orleans Studies minor includes the following 21 hours:
  • HIST A240 History of New Orleans
 3 crs

Use the following list to select 18 credit hours from at least three disciplines:

  • BIOL Y244 Ecology of the Mississippi River Delta
  • CMMN A369 Documentary Photography
  • ENGL A350 New Orleans in Literature
  • ENGL A351 Louisiana Literature
  • ENGL A438 Southern Literature
  • ENGL A466 Southern Women Writers
  • HIST A245 Louisiana History
  • HIST A336 History of the Old South
  • HIST A337 History of the New South
  • HIST A338 Civil War and Reconstruction
  • HIST A404 New Orleans Oral Histories
  • HIST Q232 Africa and its Diasporas
  • LIBR G450 Researching New Orleans (1 cr.)
  • MUGN O246 History of New Orleans Music
  • POLS A220 Urban Process
  • SOCI A242 Sociology of Mardi Gras
  • SOCI A285 Sociology of Disaster
  • SOCI A323 Social Justice in New Orleans
  • THEA O243 Black Theatre 1940 - Present
 18 crs.

2.0 GPA required. 

Please check with the program director for additional course offerings and seminars that may be eligible for NOST program completion. First Year Seminars with a New Orleans topic or focus may be eligible for inclusion as well. 

Internships (497), research projects (498) and independent studies (499) can be arranged with permission of the minor adviser.

Students are strongly encouraged to complete a final thesis, internship or another approved project as one of their courses. The thesis option requires students to write their theses within their major departments with a required one-hour course in information literacy offered by the library faculty (LIBRG450).

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Women's Studies

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Women's Studies (WMST) Course Descriptions

The Women's Studies minor requires 21 credit hours:

Choose one of the following courses:

  • HIST Q268 Gender and Nation
  • PHIL U241 Philosophical Perspectives on Women
  • SOCI A250 Sociology of Gender
 3 crs.

Choose six of the following elective courses if not taken above. Courses must be selected from at least 3 departments:

  • ARTH O236 Women in Art
  • CMMN A455 Media and Gender
  • CRIM A280 Domestic Violence
  • CRIM A410 Women and Crime
  • ENGL A385 Women Writers
  • ENGL A410 Writing Gender
  • ENGL A466 Southern Women Writers
  • HIST A352 Women in African History
  • HIST P240 Women in the Middle Ages
  • HIST Q268 Gender and Nation
  • MUGN O204 Women in Music
  • PHIL U222 Philosophy and Feminism
  • PHIL U241 Philosophical Perspectives on Women
  • PHIL U254 Postmodernism and Feminism
  • POLS A235 Gender & Global Politics
  • PSYC A327 Studies in the Psychology of Woman
  • RELS A417 Women, Religion, Culture
  • RELS S343 Women in the Christianity
  • RELS V281 Women in World Religions
  • RELS V265 Ecofeminist Theologies and Spiritualities
  • SOCI A240 Sociology of the Family
  • SOCI A250 Sociology of Gender
  • SOCI A255 Sociology of Sexualities
  • SOCI A321 Body, Society, & Health
  • VISA A285 Cinematic Representations of Cross-Gendered Performances
  • WMST T121 Any WMST First-Year Seminar
  • Elective Choice: either HIST Q230 Oppression & Resistance OR SOCI X305 Social / Political Inequality can be taken for WMNA credit, but not both.
 18 crs.

2.0 GPA required. 

Please check with the program director for additional course offerings and seminars that may be eligible for WMST program completion.

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