Bachelor in Interdisciplinary Studies
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DURATION
3 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
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TUITION FEES
EUR 3,500
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
Introduction
GCAS College Dublin is recruiting the best minds of the next generation. We are excited to form the first class of our EU-Accredited BA Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies. We aim to nurture and support our students with the highest quality educational resources available.
About the Undergraduate Programme
This Undergraduate programme is ideal for students who like a challenge and don’t want to go into debt pursuing a degree. You will learn from some of the foremost thinkers and influencers in the world.
The GCAS Undergraduate programme focuses on student empowerment through the practices of critical and creative learning. This programme offers a variety of social and personal learning opportunities, including coursework, mentorship, group work, travel opportunities, guest lectures and hands-on interactions with world-leading experts, visionaries and innovators. Students at GCAS experience a unique education that helps to develop healthy learning and life habits. Our objective is to support students in their lifelong pursuit of learning by providing lasting tools in communication and media, self-confidence, and the creation of global networks.
The programme follows our mission of providing rigorous, accessible, affordable and cooperative education for the betterment of our world.
BA Degree Info
- Length: 3 Years
- Tuition Costs: 3,500€
- Requirements: 180 Credits, Courses, BA Thesis, Defense
- Prerequisites: High School Diploma
- Program Location: Fully Online
Undergraduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies
GCAS College Dublin’s BA degree programme in interdisciplinary studies is designed for understanding and innovating new ways of being in the world. This degree was designed by some of the world’s leading experts to provide our students with the highest quality learning experience.
Admissions
Curriculum
The programme is three years in length and is designed to follow three interdependent stages:
- Acquire Knowledge (Tier 1)
- Apply Knowledge (Tier 2)
- Create Knowledge (Tier 3)
Courses in the first tier encourage the acquisition of knowledge through the interdisciplinary study of history, ideas, inventions, discoveries from fields, technological, social, religious, philosophical and scientific. The second year applies this knowledge to our present time with the aim of addressing and providing solutions to the most vexing challenges confronting our common existence today such as: clear air and water, clean energies and environmental healing, shelter and peacemaking. The third and final year engages the creative powers of the student by drawing on acquired and applied knowledge to offer the world their research findings.
Program delivery
Each year has four terms, or “Quarters”: Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring. Each term is 8 weeks in length. For students pursuing full-time study, each Quarter term is 15 credit hours.
As each of the four Quarter terms is worth 15 credit hours, an academic year of full-time study will comprise 60 credit hours. Thus in three years of full-time study, students will have the opportunity to complete 180 credit hours within the set parameters of the programme, in order to qualify for graduating and being conferred with a BA degree.
Much of the BA programme design is inspired by the Oxford style programme. The Oxford style places much of the responsibility for learning within the student’s initiative to explore ideas, practices and solutions, while being carefully mentored.
The GCAS College student is required to meet with their mentor (academic supervisor) once per month.
At the conclusion of three years of course and seminar work, the student must successfully complete the Bachelor Comprehensive Examinations. The student must successfully pass the Bachelor Comprehensive Examinations in order to graduate from GCAS College Dublin. These examinations must be taken in person or by an authorized proctor arranged by GCAS College in consultation with the student.
In addition to completing the Bachelor Comprehensive Examinations (BCE) the student must successfully defend their Bachelor’s thesis in the Bachelor’s Thesis Defense Examination. This defense is designed to demonstrate the student’s unique academic contribution.