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rationale for the major, selects courses, and outlines
the thesis plan. The proposal is reviewed for
approval by the CIS Board or its designated
subcommittee.
Note: Two credits used to fulfill another major may
be used toward the Interdisciplinary Studies major;
students may not triple major if one major is in
Interdisciplinary Studies.
For specific information and application guidelines
visit the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
website: http://cis.tufts.edu.
CIS Senior Thesis
Arts, Sciences, and Engineering students who wish
to write a senior thesis outside their major area of
concentration may be eligible to write a CIS senior
thesis. The student must satisfy the CIS Board or
its designated subcommittee that the topic falls
outside the purview of any department or interdisciplinary
program and that significant course work
and/or faculty directed research relevant to the
thesis topic has been accomplished. The student
must assemble a committee of three faculty readers
with expertise in the disciplines involved, one of
whom will serve as the chair of the committee and
be responsible for submitting a the final grade. One
member of the committee must be from a department
or program in which the student is majoring.
The proposed thesis topic must be approved by the
CIS Board or its designated subcommittee.
Application instructions and relevant timeline can
be found on the CIS website.
Students who would like to be recommended for
degrees with honors by a department or program
that requires a thesis should be aware that a CIS
thesis will not usually count as a substitute for an
honors thesis within the department or program.
However, once the thesis proposal is approved by
the CIS Board or its designated subcommittee,
eligible students can apply to the Thesis Honors
Program by filing the appropriate paperwork at
Dowling Hall. If the CIS thesis is to qualify as an
honors thesis, the chair of the thesis committee
must be a member of the department or program in
which the student is majoring.
In addition to administering the Interdisciplinary
Studies major and the CIS Senior Thesis, the
Center for Interdisciplinary Studies provides a
dynamic hub for a range of interdisciplinary
academic programs at Tufts. For information about
majors and/or minors offered by interdisciplinary
programs, please see the relevant program website.
The academic programs affiliated with the collective
enterprise of the Center for Interdisciplinary
Studies include:
Africana Studies
American Studies
Asian Studies
Asian American Studies
Communications and Media Studies
Community Health
Environmental Studies
International Literary and Visual Studies
International Relations
Judaic Studies
Latin American Studies
Latino Studies
Leadership Studies
Medieval Studies
Middle Eastern Studies
Multimedia Arts
Peace and Justice Studies
Urban Studies
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Other interdisciplinary programs at Tufts include:
Biochemistry
Biopsychology
Cognitive and Brain Sciences
For more information on these programs students
should consult the individual program website and/
or program director.
International Literary
and Visual Studies
CO-DIRECTORS:
Professor Charles Inouye, German, Russian, and Asian
Languages and Literatures
Professor Isabelle Naginski, Romance Languages
The program in International Literary and Visual
Studies makes possible the study of literature, film,
and visual arts in an international context. ILVS
students share an interest in literature, cinema, and
visual arts, which they approach in an interdisciplinary,
multicultural way.
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