Overview

Build your own major. You have all the tools you need:  intellectual curiosity, imagination, energy and passion.  Using these building blocks, a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from Plymouth State University allows you to design a program of study that combines several of your academic and career interests.

Past programs designed by students have included Art Therapy (art and psychology), Dance Management and Instruction (dance and business), Graphic Web Design (graphic arts and computer science), Women and Political Change (women’s studies and political science) and Pre-Med (biology, chemistry, and mathematics).

As a interdisciplinary studies major you will experience

Featured in Plymouth Magazine

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Remembering Gene Savage ’58

On May 14, 2012, New Hampshire lost a gifted educator, respected leader, and devoted friend. From his earliest days in education as a high school teacher, coach, and director of guidance, through his post as director of admissions at the University of New Hampshire, and later through his various administrative positions within the University System [...]

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Faculty Forum: Irene Cucina

Professor Irene Cucina has been teaching in the Department of Health and Human Performance since 1998. Prior to coming to Plymouth State, she had a rewarding career as a high school health and physical education teacher and coach in Newton, MA. Her commitment to students and learning has been recognized by her peers through a [...]

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Another Way to Serve

“It was like moving to a foreign country with a completely different culture,” says PSU student Patrick O’Sullivan. The 26-year-old veteran isn’t referring to his time in Iraq as a motor transport operator in the Army Reserve. He’s talking about coming home. O’Sullivan joined the Army Reserve right out of high school, at an age [...]