Juan Carlos Mercado, Dean of CCNY's Division of Interdisciplinary Studies
CUNY’s first online BA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences beginning in the fall is set to boost enrollment in the program offered by The City College of New York’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, said Dean Juan Carlos Mercado.
The Division produces 150 graduates annually. Mercado anticipates a substantial increase with enrollment from out of state and even globally once the online program is underway.
“This distance education program delivers a balanced mixture of synchronous and asynchronous learning,” he said. “We provide working adults and transfer students with a framework that allows them to connect their learning in relevant ways to the workplace and the world.”
In development before the COVID-19 outbreak, the pandemic and the remote learning it ushered in accelerated CCNY’s plans to finalize and implement the program.
It offers concentrations in:
- Childhood Studies;
- Disabilities Studies;
- History, Politics and Society;
- Literary, Media Visual Arts;
- Social Welfare;
- The Americas;
- Urban Studies and Public Administration; and
- Global Labor Studies.
“Our interdisciplinary concentrations represent a flexible, creative, challenging, and innovative approach to education, and one that draws on multiple disciplines to interpret a set of related issues, topics, and problems,” said Mercado. “The concentrations allow students to hone in on particular subject areas and examine them through multiple lenses.”
Each concentration is designed to cultivate intellectual growth and the professional skills necessary to succeed in today's competitive, global economy.
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