Enhancing the Baccalaureate Experience
Recommendation
Create a single, interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts degree program in the School of Arts and Sciences.
Benefits
A single, interdisciplinary B.A. degree program would:
- Establish a distinctive baccalaureate identity for UAS within the UA system.
- Facilitate a truly interdisciplinary (methodologically & theoretically) and transdisciplinary (holistic) curriculum.
- Provide yet another opportunity to integrate decolonization and indigenous knowledge into our academic programs.
- Increase clarity about how an interdisciplinary course of study works.
- Strengthen innovative approaches to social issues and community engagement.
- Provide more opportunities for students to draw directly upon faculty academic and research expertise.
- Provide more flexibility for students to craft a program of study.
- Provide a clear pathway to high impact learning.
- Better incorporate experiential learning and fieldwork opportunities into a student’s degree program.
Committee Members
Richard F. Simpson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Humanities, Geography and Environmental Studies BA Coordinator
Literary Theory; Literary Urban Studies; Material Cultures of Education; Nineteenth-Century Labor and Economic Theory; Allegory and the Essay; Cultures of Finance Capital
Lora E. Vess
Associate Professor of Social Sciences, Social Sciences Department Chair
Environmental sociology and environmental justice, food studies, social inequality, social movements, scholarship of teaching and learning, sociology of health and medicine
