Mar 29, 2024  
2023-2024 Academic Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Academic Catalog

Interdisciplinary Studies Minor


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The Interdisciplinary Studies Minor provides a curricular mechanism to motivate students to take interdisciplinary courses in service of solving pervasive social and societal problems. Students in any major will benefit from a minor that teaches them how to approach pressing problems from multiple perspectives and to arrive at solutions and recommendations that align with their interests and that draw on their academic training. Students work in supervised teams to ask historical, ethical, and technical questions; do research; propose and prototype solutions.
 
Students with at least a 3.5 GPA in the minor will receive an Honors designation on the transcript.

Minor Prerequisites


Students must have completed 60 units when they start the minor, be in good academic standing, and submit an application. For more information, email honorsx@sjsu.edu.

Additional Required Courses (6 units)


Complete any combination of courses from the following:

  • UNVS 101 - Leadership and Career Accelerator  
  • UNVS 123 - HonorsX Explorations  
  • UNVS 124 - HonorsX Research or Practicum Experience  
  • One or more General Education (GE) courses relating to HonorsX topic 3 unit(s)
    Note: Any upper-division GE course(s) related to the HonorsX topic can double-count for the Minor.

  • One or more upper-division electives relating to HonorsX topic 3 unit(s)
    Note: Any upper-division elective(s) related to the HonorsX topic can double-count for the Minor.

  • One upper-division course from your major relating to HonorsX topic 3 unit(s)
    Note: One course for your major requirements relating to the HonorsX topic can double-count for the Minor.

Total Units Required (15 units)


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