The Interdisciplinary Studies Programs at CSUB allow students to examine concepts, issues, and perspectives that cross traditional boundaries of study, and to combine elements of distinct disciplines in a unique way. CSUB offers three Interdisciplinary Studies concentrations: Ethnic and Area Studies.<br>Interdisciplinary Studies, BA Program Goals and Objectives<br>Goal I: Students will develop broad, integrative knowledge.<br><br>Students will analyze complex issues, which integrate foundational knowledge, values, and methods from two or more disciplines.<br>Goal II: Students will develop cross-disciplinary skills.<br><br>Students will communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, in and across disciplinary styles and for various audiences and contexts.<br>Students will, as individual researchers/scholars as well as in collaboration with others, solve or creatively respond to a current complex problem drawing on two or more disciplinary approaches.<br>Goal III: Students in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies or Ethnic and Area Studies will apply an interdisciplinary approach.<br><br>Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies students will apply feminist and other critical perspectives to examine the ways that gender intersects with race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality, disability, and other facets of embodiment.<br>Ethnic and Area Studies students will apply an interdisciplinary approach to the comparative, intersectional, and relational study of African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicana/os-Latinas/os, and American Indians within local, regional, (trans)-national, and global contexts.