Bates College: Student-Designed Interdisciplinary Concentrations

In addition to established departmental and interdisciplinary program majors, a student may propose an individual interdisiplinary major, should that student discover a well-defined intellectual interest that crosses one or more or of the boundaries of the established fields of concentration.

Student-designed Interdisciplinary Concentrations Since 1990

Class of 1999
Total persons awarded degrees at Commencement: 417
21 Student-designed Concentrations (30 students; 6.5%):

Biological Sciences and Cultural Studies
Biology & Geology
Biopsychology (6)
Child and Family Studies (2)
Comparative Slavic-English Literature
Cultural Linguistics
Environmental Public Policy
Environmental Studies (4)
Film
Geology and Biology
Latin American Studies
Literary and Religious Imagination
Mathematical Applications in Analytical Politics
Moral Philosophy and Law
Physics and Art
Political Philosophy
Psychology of Women
Urban Environmental Studies
Women and Politics
Women, Power and Identity
Women's Writing and Political Dissent

Class of 1998
Total persons awarded degrees at Commencement: 385
20 Student-designed Concentrations (23 students; 6%):

Aspects of Character
Biology & Geology
Biopsychology
Child Abuse and Legal Studies
Computer Music
Earth Systems Education
Environmental Policy
Environmental Science: Wetlands
Environmental Studies (2)
Human Ecology: Mind, Spirit, Nature
Latin American Studies (2)
Legal Studies
Neurophilosophy
Neuroscience (2)
Political Mobilization and Social
Reform in Context of Latin America
Psychobiology
Race and Sexuality Studies
Religion and Art History
Social Stratification
Visual Culture and Political Institutions

Class of 1997
Total persons awarded degrees at Commencement: 472
18 Student-designed Concentrations (22 students; 5%):

Anthropology & French Culture
Biopsychology (2)
Communications Media
Environmental Sciences
Int'l Politics & Religious St.
International Relations
Japan and Black America
Latin American Studies
Neuroscience (4)
Political Movements
Political Sociology
Political Philosophy
Spanish & English Philology
Urban Studies
Visual Media&Multimedia
Visual Representations in Pol.
Women's Literature and Theater
Women: Global Labor Market

Class of 1996
Total persons awarded degrees at Commencement: 383
21 Student-designed Concentrations (29 students; 8%):

Art and Politics
Audio Engineering
Bioethics
Biopsychology (6)
Children's Studies
Contemporary Otherness
Cultural Psychology
Economic Environmental Policy
Educational Psychology
Environmental Science (2)
Geoarchaeology
Geology-Anthropology
Latin American Studies (3)
Math Methods in the Sciences
Metaphor
Philosophy of Literature
Physical Anthropology
Political Theory and Performance
Psychopathology and Philosophy
Shakespearean Drama
Western Philosophy and Religion

Class of 1995
Total persons awarded degrees at Commencement: 360
19 Student-designed Concentrations (25 students; 7%):

African Diaspora Studies
Anthropology and Sociology
Art and Anthropology
Biophysics
Biopsychology (3)
Eastern European Studies
Environmental Ethics
Environmental Policy (2)
Environmental Science (4)
Geochemistry
Issues / Women In East Asian Religion
Latin American Studies
Physics / Music
Political Economy
Political Psychology
Sociology/Psychology
The Emergence of Korea
The Psychology of Women
Women's Voices Across Cultures

Class of 1994
Total persons awarded degrees at Commencement: 405
15 Student-designed Concentrations (18 students; 4%):

American Ethnic Studies
American History and Politics
Bioethics
Biopsychology (3)
Criminal Psychology
Dramatic Structure and Political Inequality
Environmental Science
Environmental Studies
Geophysics (2)
Individual, Society & Culture
Literature and Performance
Native American Studies
Philosophy of Art
Science as Cultural Knowledge
Theory, Practice, and Dissent

Class of 1993
Total persons awarded degrees at Commencement: 404
19 Student-designed Concentrations (20 students; 5%):

American Ideology in Early Twentieth-Century Theater
Biochemistry
Biopsychology (2)
Classical Greece and Its Legacy
Cultural Studies
Dramatic Studies
East-Asian Studies
Environmental Sciences
Japanese Studies
Juvenile Law
Latin-American Studies
Latin-American Studies
Middle-Eastern Politics
Modern European Studies
Soviet Studies
Tradition and Transformation in the Third World
Women and Writing
Workplace and Family Across Cultures
Writing for the Theater

Class of 1992
Total persons awarded degrees at Commencement: 408
20 Student-designed Concentrations (28 students; 7%):

Aesthetics and Perception: The Literary Self
American Studies (2)
Asian Studies
Biochemistry (4)
Biopsychology (3)
Comparative Studies in Buddhism and German Thought
Cultural and Literary Textual Interpretation
Cultural Origins of Asian-Americans
East Asian Languages and Cultures
East Asian Studies
Empowerment Theater
Environmental Studies
Japanese Studies (2)
Latin American Cultural Studies
Latin American Studies (3)
Legal Studies
Music, Art, and Social Representation
Philosophy of Music
Russian/Soviet Studies
The Interaction of Belief Systems

Class of 1991
Total persons awarded degrees at Commencement: 402
21 Student-designed Concentrations (26 students; 6%):

Aesthetics-Philosophy of Art
American Studies (2)
Anthropology and Religion
Applied Math
Asian Studies
Biopsychology (2)
Classical and Dramatic Studies
Cognitive Science
East Asian Studies (3)
Economic International Relations
German Studies
Japanese Studies (2)
Latin American Studies
Literature and Performance
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Psychology of Religion-Belief Systems
Radical Images of America
Religion in the American Experience
Scenography
South Asian Culture and Religion
Studies in Power Relations

Class of 1990
Total persons awarded degrees at Commencement: 371
8 Student-designed Concentrations (14 students; 4%):

American Studies (2)
Asian Studies
Bioethics
Biopsychology (5)
Japanese Studies (2)
Marine Environmental Studies
Northern Studies
Women's Studies