That's probably the question you are asking now, particularly if you were attracted to this website by one of its specializations. Interdisciplinary Studies courses replace the conventional distributional requirements with courses relevant to contemporary life and focus on complex themes, questions, and issues (is globalization good, bad, or little of both). Topics such as globalization cannot be adequately comprehended from the perspective of one discipline alone, they require a variety of approaches, perspectives, and disciplines to fully understand. For instance, we study globalization from the perspective of economics, political science, sociology and anthropology, which together illuminate the topic in a way that each alone cannot. In the 1997 Handbook of Undergraduate Curriculum, Professors Julie Klein and William B. Newell declared interdisciplinary studies to be the most important advancement in education and work place training of the Century.