Division of Interdisciplinary Programs

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The Division of Interdisciplinary Programs includes Enterprise Leadership, Interdepartmental Studies, and Museum Studies.

The academic units within the division offer two BA degrees and one certificate.

Enterprise Leadership provides an option for students who want to focus on entrepreneurial business leadership. The major presents a unique blend of skills, theory, and content, encouraging students to apply their knowledge and skills to entrepreneurial and growing organizations. It is designed to prepare students for career success—whether they desire to be an innovator inside a large organization or aspire to be an entrepreneur and launch their own business one day. The program offers a combination of business and liberal arts approaches and allows students to hone their skills in innovation, entrepreneurship, communication, critical thinking, problem solving, and leadership. Enterprise Leadership offers a BA degree.

Interdepartmental Studies gives students the opportunity to choose a preapproved plan of study in applied human services, business studies, or health science. Each track includes coursework from a variety of departments. Interdepartmental Studies offers a BA degree.

Museums embrace every aspect of human experience. Iowa's Museum Studies Program reflects this multiplicity and includes students and instructors from many fields, including American studies, anthropology and archaeology, art, biology, business, communication studies, earth, environment, and sustainability sciences, elementary and secondary education, English, world languages, history, and library and information science. This program offers an undergraduate certificate.