{"id":13757,"date":"2022-07-21T09:58:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T14:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/liberal\/?page_id=13757"},"modified":"2024-02-15T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T21:00:00","slug":"department-of-interdisciplinary-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/liberal\/college-of-liberal-arts\/department-of-interdisciplinary-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Interdisciplinary Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Department of Interdisciplinary Studies offers programs leading to the Associate of General Studies and Bachelor of General Studies degrees for students who have a broad range of interests and are seeking a diverse curriculum. General studies degree programs allow students to explore their interests while simultaneously preparing them for a variety of careers. Furthermore, the general studies programs allow students to combine the credits they may have accumulated as a result of changing their curriculum while searching for their best educational plan. The general studies programs also serve as a stepping stone for students wishing to further their education at the undergraduate and graduate levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The general studies degree programs have a significant population of students consisting of local traditional students, student-athletes and non-traditional adult students. The general studies programs are available part-time, full-time, on-campus, online or in hybrid formats. Daytime, weekend and&nbsp;accelerated online courses allow education to fit seamlessly into our students\u2019 busy lives. We change the lives of students through a mix of research, instruction, and student life activities, with a focus on student learning and mentoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Study<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Associate&#8217;s Degrees<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p><a class=\"acalog icon-after\" data-acalog-data=\"programs\" data-acalog-link-text=\"Associate of General Studies, Applied and Natural Sciences Concentration\" data-acalog-catalog-type=\"Academic Catalog\" data-acalog-program-name=\"General Studies, Applied and Natural Sciences Concentration, AGS\" href=\"#\">Associate of General Studies, Applied and Natural Sciences Concentration<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p><a class=\"acalog icon-after\" data-acalog-data=\"programs\" data-acalog-link-text=\"Associate of General Studies, Arts and Humanities Concentration\" data-acalog-catalog-type=\"Academic Catalog\" data-acalog-program-name=\"General Studies, Arts and Humanities Concentration, AGS\" href=\"#\">Associate of General Studies, Arts and Humanities Concentration<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"acalog icon-after\" data-acalog-data=\"programs\" data-acalog-link-text=\"Associate of General Studies, Behavioral Sciences Concentration\" data-acalog-catalog-type=\"Academic Catalog\" data-acalog-program-name=\"General Studies, Behavioral Sciences Concentration, AGS\">Associate of General Studies, Behavioral Sciences Concentration<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bachelor\u2019s Degrees<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"icon-after\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/academics\/undergraduate\/general-studies\/\">Bachelor of General Studies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Program Brochures<\/strong>: Coming Soon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Department Head<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dr. Jodi Willis<br>337-475-5623<br>jwillis2@mcneese.edu<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Interdisciplinary Studies offers programs leading to the Associate of General Studies and Bachelor of General Studies degrees for students who have a broad range of interests and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13735,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13757","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/liberal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/liberal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/liberal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/liberal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/liberal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13757"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/liberal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13991,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/liberal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13757\/revisions\/13991"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/liberal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/liberal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/liberal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}