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Which top notch colleges offer a interdisciplanary major in the social sciences?

I like Oberlin's Law and Society program a lot. It combines pretty much every social science- politics, economics, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology. The Law and Society program offers quite a lot of individual interdisciplary classes (ie. Social, Political and Legal Philosophy; Law, Literature and Society; Sociology of Law; etc) I am very interested in such programs (especially those that focus primarily on politics/econ/philosophy).

I know there are double/triple major opportunities at most colleges, but i would really rather take interdisciplanary classes as opposed to an assortment of classes from every field.

Which colleges offer this?

By Vulcano (Vulcano) on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - 10:53 pm: Edit

Political Economy is offered at Tulane and they also offer a great program called TIDES. I suggest you check it out.

By Dazed04confused (Dazed04confused) on Friday, July 16, 2004 - 02:48 pm: Edit

Fordham offers several interdisciplinary majors:

American Studies
International Political Economy
International/Intercultural Studies
Urban Studies
Middle Eastern Studies
Latin American/Latino Studies
African/African-American Studies
Mathematics/Economics
American Catholic Studies (Certificate Program)
Environmental Studies
Peace & Justice (Certificate Program)
Women's Studies
Social Science: Interdisciplinary
General Science
Natural Science
Literary Studies
Medieval Studies
Religious Studies

Schools that may have solid departments in many areas may be better choices for students with a variety of academic interests v. a schools with a couple of strong programs because when you combine majors and departments in an interdisciplinary program, you then have many strong programs.

By Reidmc (Reidmc) on Saturday, July 17, 2004 - 01:00 am: Edit

Kenyon College has several interdisciplinary programs in humanities and social sciences.