Consulting closely with faculty, students designed their own cross-disciplinary programs of study that often transcended those of any School or College at Boston University.
This integrated approach to scholarship is reflected in the courses they teach, and, in the guidance they offer their students.
Students will also be required to study a foreign language for four semesters and to attend a weekly seminar, at which the University Professors and occasional distinguished guests will present the fruits of their own scholarship for examination and discussion.
Under the guidance of their faculty advisors, students then select appropriate courses from throughout the University that reflect their growing academic interests.
Example concentrations included: International Affairs and Linguistics; Banach Manifolds on Harbater Theory; Literary and Cultural Studies; Public Theology and Social Criticism; Music Cognition; Sociology of Education and American Civilization; Business Administration and Media Studies; Neuroscience, Robotics, and Philosophy; Psychiatry, Infectious Disease, and Public Health; Neurophysiology; and Bio-Organic Chemistry.