Students who complete the degree requirements for Interdisciplinary Studies will be able to:

• Integrate information and knowledge from interdisciplinary perspectives.
• Demonstrate advanced cultural competence.
• Improve higher order cognitive skills, capacity for independent thinking, and autonomous action.
• Employ meta-cognition in the classroom, the work place, and life circumstances.
• Demonstrate advanced critical thinking skills by making profound connections between and among seeming dissimilarities as required for effective analyses and performances in social, professional, and cultural contexts.
• Appreciate and enjoy questions, ambiguity, and paradox.
• Interrogate world views and become cognizant of ethical dimensions of human systems, institutions, issues, and dilemmas.