Interdisciplinary Graduate Opportunities

In today’s global society, the grand challenges facing us—energy, water, climate, food, health—require the understanding of more than a single discipline to achieve the desired impactful solutions. The intersection of ideas from several disciplines across all of the arts and sciences on intellectual provides the potential to address these grand challenges and organizational issues. Interdisciplinary Studies at Texas Tech University allows graduate students to integrate areas and courses from the existing graduate colleges and programs to best fit their interests and career aspirations that might not be defined in traditional disciplinary boundaries. Popular combinations of disciplines have been formalized into pre-designed program structures. More unique combinations can be created by students in the self-designed program options within the Interdisciplinary Studies Master of Arts (M.A.) and Master of Science (M.S.) degree programs.

Program Offerings & Graduate Course Descriptions

Programs

• Biotechnology, M.S. / J.D.

• Arid Land Studies, M.S.
• Biotechnology, M.S.
• Heritage and Museum Sciences, M.A.
• Interdisciplinary Studies, M.A. or M.S.
• Interdisciplinary Studies, M.A. or M.S.: Interdisciplinary Studies Concentration
• Interdisciplinary Studies, M.S.: Energy Concentration

• Land-Use Planning, Management, and Design, Ph.D.
• Wind Science and Engineering, Ph.D.

• Biotechnology Graduate Minor
• Business Graduate Minor
• Cross-Cultural Studies (CCS) Graduate Minor
• Ethnic Studies Graduate Minor
• Indigenous and Native American Studies Graduate Minor
• Interdisciplinary Studies, Graduate Minor
• Latin American and Iberian Studies Graduate Minor

• Biotechnology Graduate Certificate
• Energy Economics and Finance Interdisciplinary Energy Certificate
• Global Bridge Graduate Certificate
• Indigenous and Native American Studies, Graduate Certificate
• Law and Policy Interdisciplinary Graduate Energy Certificate
• Oil and Gas Interdisciplinary Graduate Energy Certificate
• Renewables Interdisciplinary Graduate Energy Certificate
• Wind Energy (Managerial) Graduate Certificate
• Wind Energy (Technical) Graduate Certificate
• Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Certificate

Courses

• WGS 5340 - Special Topics in Women’s Studies
• WGS 5360 - Foundations of Women’s Studies