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The College of Creative Arts’ Multidisciplinary Studies (MDS) program enables students to earn a Bachelor of Multidisciplinary Studies (B.MdS.) degree by following an individualized course of study based on their own academic interests and goals in the Arts.

The Bachelor of Multidisciplinary Studies in the Arts (BMdS) allows students to follow an individualized course of study based on their own academic interests in the Arts.

• Demonstration of knowledge and/or skills in two or more areas of study (minors) within the College beyond basic coursework and performance appropriate to the individual’s needs and interests.
• The ability to think, speak, and write clearly and effectively, and to communicate with precision, cogency, and rhetorical force.
• An informed acquaintance with the mathematical and experimental methods of the physical and biological sciences, and with the main forms of analysis of the historical and quantitative techniques needed for investigating the workings and developments of modern society.
• An ability to address culture and history from a variety of perspectives.
• Understanding of, and experience in thinking about, moral and ethical problems.
• The ability to respect, understand and evaluate work in a variety of disciplines and particularly in one or more aspects of the Arts.
• The capacity to explain and defend views effectively and rationally.
• The ability to conceive, create and practice one or more specific areas of the Arts.
• Understanding the similarities, differences and relationships among the various forms of Art.
• A demonstration of the conceptual and practical relationship between at least two areas of the Arts combined with a third area related to the student’s specific academic and personal interests and goals.