The College of Liberal Arts offers a degree program in Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies. This program requires a foundation of core liberal studies courses and provides an opportunity for students to focus on a specific area of interdisciplinary studies or to design an individualized focus for interdisciplinary study consistent with the principles of liberal education.?Students who major in Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies will synthesize the insights and methods of several different disciplines, focus on the cultivation of the arts of inquiry, and expand their power to communicate and reason.

The degree of Bachelor of Arts, with a major in Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies, requires successful completion of at least 120 hours, including

• ?the UCA Core: complete 38 hours to meet lower-division UCA Core requirements and complete upper-division UCA Core requirements using major, minor, or elective courses; Students will need to work closely with their advisor to ensure that they satisfy the upper-division Core requirements.?

• degree requirements;?

• ?major requirements; All students in the ILS program complete History and Principles of the Liberal Arts, a course designed specifically for the program, and they all complete ?senior capstone interdisciplinary project.

• a minor?