{"id":69768,"date":"2017-05-09T15:52:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T19:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/?page_id=69768"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:15:10","slug":"interdisciplinary-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/cgs\/courses\/interdisciplinary-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Interdisciplinary Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"course-filter\">\n<p>View courses in<\/p><ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/cgs\/courses\/interdisciplinary-studies\/\">Interdisciplinary Studies<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/cgs\/courses\/\">All Departments<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/cgs\/courses\/humanities\/\">Humanities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/cgs\/courses\/interdisciplinary-studies\/\">Interdisciplinary Studies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/cgs\/courses\/mathematics\/\">Mathematics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/cgs\/courses\/natural-science\/\">Natural Sciences<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/cgs\/courses\/rhetoric\/\">Rhetoric<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/cgs\/courses\/social-sciences\/\">Social Sciences<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n    <ul class=\"course-feed\">\n\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/cgs-in-250\/\"><strong>CGS IN 250: Cosmic Visions: The Science of Astronomy and the Arts<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tUndergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - How has stargazing shaped understanding of our place within the world' Art draws inspiration from astronomy--and astronomy from art. This team-taught course traces the symbiotic history of these two ways of knowing and exploring the cosmos, culminating in a creative project. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry I, Writing-Intensive Course. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity\/Innovation, Scientific Inquiry I, Writing-Intensive Course.\t\t\t<div class=\"cf-hub-ind\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hub\/what-is-the-hub\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"cf-hub-head\" alt=\"BU Hub\">    <span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"bu-hub-iconstyles icon-buhub\">BU Hub<\/span>  <\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hub\/what-is-the-hub\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"hub-head\">    <span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"bu-hub-iconstyles icon-questionmark\">Learn More<\/span>  <\/a>  <ul class=\"cf-hub-offerings\"><li class=\"cf-hub-area-4\">Creativity\/Innovation<\/li><li class=\"cf-hub-area-D\">Scientific Inquiry I<\/li><li class=\"cf-hub-area-6\">Writing-Intensive Course<\/li>  <\/ul><\/div>\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/cgs-is-400\/\"><strong>CGS IS 400: Interdisciplinary Directed Study<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tInterdisciplinary Directed Study\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4502,"featured_media":0,"parent":210,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69768"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96113,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69768\/revisions\/96113"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}