46 courses with the subject IDIS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
IDIS 1000Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies3
Credit(s) Offered: Spring This course examines a broad range of individual and collective experiences at the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality. It covers such topics as the social and discursive construction of gender and sexuality; identities and social locations; gendered bodies and health; intimate relationships, families and households; work, wages, and welfare; and feminist and LGBT activism and social change.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: less than once every two years This course will focus on disability within a social, cultural and historical context with an emphasis on how disability is and has been defined and understood on both a micro and macro level. The course will explore models of disability that seek to explain and represent experience, along with the ethical issues and implications of these models. The course will also introduce students to a theoretical and methodological approach to the examination of disability emphasizing disability as a social construction rather than a condition of medical or biological deficiency. Students will be encouraged to increase their ethical awareness of the complexity of the biological deficiency. Students will be encouraged to increase their ethical awareness of the complexity of the disability as a concept through in-depth examination fo stigma, discrimination, individual and social representation of disability, models of disability and other psychosocial considerations. A strong emphasis will also be placed on understanding disability from a variety of cultural perspectives and assessing the impact of racial, ethnic, gender, socioeconomic, and socio-political factors on disability status.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
IDIS 1004Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies Seminar1
Credit(s) Offered: twice per academic year This course is an introductory seminar that will focus on and discuss interdisciplinary studies, thinking, and habits of mind. Students will be introduced to the interdisciplinary studies process and its comprehensive way of answering complex questions, solving complex problems, and understanding complex issues. An interdisciplinary way of thinking integrates disciplinary insights and theories, and transcends disciplinary boundaries. Such collaboration develops interdisciplinary habits of the mind and results in new solutions to questions that may be difficult to solve from a single disciplinary approach.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
1
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) This online seminar prepares students for a successful college career by developing students’ habits of mind, metacognitive reading, and information literacy skills. Students will interact with peers to enhance their skill development through online discussions and technology platforms that support student collaboration.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every other year Explore Italian language and culture through the lens of food. This course introduces basic Italian vocabulary and grammar while discovering Italy’s culinary traditions, foodways, and identity through readings, films, discussion and hands-on food activities. Topics cover regional cuisines, the Mediterranean diet, Slow Food, and Italian food in a global context. Designed for both beginners and those with some prior experience in Italian. Cross-listed with ITAL 1050
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than once every two years The purpose of this survey course is to acquaint students with the field of international studies in the context of contemporary global change. Through lectures, films, performances and readings, the student gains perspective on some very rapid and important international political-economic transformations and cultural changes.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: Fall This interdisciplinary course serves as an overview of the basic principles and issues of sustainability, laying out the intellectual frameworks, technological innovations, and sociopolitical developments that will bring us closer to a more sustainable and equitable global community. It provides a point of entry for students wishing to pursue various aspects of sustainability in more depth, and students will also learn about the rapidly-expanding career opportunities within the field of sustainability.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than once every two years Participants acquire basic skills in music, movement, visual art and language with which they create personal and group works. A final project demonstrating these skills as well as attendance, outside readings and final exam are required.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester In this course, students will explore the fundamentals of critical and creative thinking; the core of our thoughts and actions. Together, these fundamentals serve as the basis for understanding and perceiving ourselves and others in the world, and serve as the foundation for problem-solving in a rapidly evolving world order. Students will be challenged to reflect upon complex concepts and issues through analysis and synthesis, and to seek unique and useful responses to challenges and adversity. Interdisciplinary by nature, the value of such study is to enable students to develop into active and imaginative thinkers in a variety of areas; academic subjects, contemporary issues, and personal life experiences in the new century.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: Spring This course explores the many ways that the arts are part of the fabric of our communities, focusing on how the arts are embedded in our immediate area of Fitchburg and North Central Massachusetts. Students will engage with creative artists, government officials, and others who are working with the arts in many different capacities.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course examines the interdependency of the world’s nations by focusing on current events in the international area and issues such as ozone depletion, pollution, the global economy, conflict and cooperation, population and hunger. Cross-listed with POLS 1800
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than once every two years In this introduction to the field of Peace Studies, through an interdisciplinary approach, the students will explore conflict, its origins, management, ramifications and attempts to move beyond it. Conflict will be explored on the individual, group, national and international levels. Cross-listed with POLS 1900
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than once every two years We will study the contributions to the advancement of science and technology made by a selected group of women. For each of these women, we will examine her discipline, and her contribution to the discipline, and site her in an appropriate historical and cultural setting.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: annually This course covers the Arab world from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. It introduces students to the current realities of this important part of the world and helps them understand the causes behind them. It covers crucial topics such as French and British occupation of the Arab world, independence movements, the rise of dictatorships, regional conflict, US involvement in the regions, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the condition of women, and the recent Arab revolutions. Cross-listed with ARAB 2030
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
IDIS 2040Poverty and Inequality in the Developing World3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year. This course is an introduction to the developing world—the nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Through its focus upon the two themes of Poverty and Inequality, students will learn about the developing world—its history, politics, economics, societies, and cultures. Cross-listed with POLS 2040
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: Fall This introductory course allows students to establish a primary understanding of the history and use of various creative and expressive arts therapy modalities. An underpinning of play, creativity, and imagination will weave together the use of sound, movement, drama, and visual arts.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than once every two years This introductory-level course is an interdisciplinary study of the issues of peace and war. It interweaves history, political science, philosophy, literature and psychology through readings, discussions, lectures, media and class presentations. Cross-listed with POLS 2100
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
IDIS 2140Interdisciplinary Research Methods Seminar2
Credit(s) Offered: twice per academic year This course is a seminar course that builds upon IDIS 1004 by focusing on the range of foundational skills that are essential to producing excellent research. These skills include learning how to perform secondary research, including use of the Amelia Gallucci-Cirio Library, how to critically read and use scholarly research, note taking, and journaling. Building upon this foundation, the course will turn to research project conception and development, with students learning how to conceive, define, and narrow primary research topics and then use them to ask insightful questions.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
2
Credits (max)
2
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than once every two years This course focuses on the relationship between stress and illness, and on therapeutic interventions to decrease stress to promote health, to cope with chronic illness, and in some cases to reduce the risk of stress-induced diseases. Particular attention is given to holistic interventions supported by current research. Social, economic, political and cultural factors are critically examined to facilitate understanding of access to complementary and alternative health care interventions from various philosophical perspectives across the globe.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester Music’s reflection of the values and ideals of societies from the Medieval period through the Baroque (500-1750) are explored. Interrelationships among the fine arts disciplines are explored including a systematic overview of painting, sculpture, architecture, music drama and philosophy. Western and non-western examples are included. Cross-listed with MUSC 2210
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: Fall The course introduces students to French culture and its history, laying special emphasis on the politics and the arts. It examines the political, economic, and intellectual forces that have shaped French culture. It explores a plethora of themes covering contemporary life in France, including its regional and culinary variety. Cross-listed with FREN 2300
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than once every two years This course offers a multicultural and interdisciplinary examination of women’s health issues and problems, including socialization, selfesteem, sexuality, birth control, substance abuse and violence.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than once every two years This course introduces the culture, politics, economy and natural history of the Caribbean, and the relation of these facets to the culture of our students.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course explores developments in India’s cultural heritage, historical epochs, religious traditions and socio-political movements from antiquity to the present. Class work involves numerous readings of articles on select topics and writing.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: once every two years This course will explore Italian history, society and culture through works of Italian cinema from 1940s to the present day. Trends in cinematic style and genre as well as the contributions of noted directors such as Visconti, Pasolini, Antonioni and Fellini will be discussed, but primarily as expressive of socio-economic, historical, political, and artistic realities. Focus of class discussion and readings will be topics such as “The Myth of Italy”, “North-South Divide”, “The Changing Family”, “Roles of Women and Men”, “The Era of Fascism”, “Immigration and Emigration”, “Mafia”, “Terrorism”. Students will create their own blogs, participate in class discussions, give presentations, and develop a proposal for an original Italian film series. Cross-listed with ITAL 2500
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This course introduces students to crucial global issues of our time, many of which principally concern developing, non-Western nations, but all of which will impact the future of the U.S. Through film viewings, readings, writing, and discussion, students will engage with global problems and learn to develop their own critical viewpoints on complex issues. Students will analyze both documentaries and narrative films as artistic treatments of human problems. Their final project will require an in-depth study of, and presentation on, media representations of global issues pertaining to one nation. Cross-listed with ENGL 2540 / POLS 2540
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than once every two years This course is designed for our International Education’s Study Abroad programs. The topics covered in this course will vary according to the location of the program and specialty of the professors but will include many areas of interdisciplinary interest while enlightening the students as to the history, art and culture of the country they are visiting. Primary subjects may include art history, music, architecture and/or history; related and interdisciplinary subjects may include literature, film, religion, philosophy and/or food history. Each version of the course will concentrate on the local and national culture of the locale of the program. Possible locations include Verona, China, Barcelona, France, and Quebec.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than once every two years The course studies universal characteristics of technology, including effects of technology on society and culture. Topics of interest are researched.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
IDIS 3000Integrative Seminar in Disability Studies3
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than every two years This course continues the themes introduced in Introduction to Disability Studies (IDIS1002) with a focus on theoretical and methodological approaches emphasizing the experience of people with disabilities. Students in this course will be expected to begin the course with a submission of a portfolio containing disability related work from all courses taken with the Disability Studies Minor. At least one piece of work will be used as the basis for the development of a research project that will be completed and submitted at semester’s end. This course serves as the capstone for the minor in Disability Studies and is to be the last course to complete the minor.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
IDIS 1002 and after the completion of all other requirements of the IDIS minor.
IDIS 3001Italian Culture (in English) I - From Antiquity to 18003
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than every two years In this introduction to Italian culture, from Roman times to 1800, students will read literary texts such as those by Dante, poet of the Inferno; the brazen storyteller Boccaccio; the political scientist Machiavelli; and the brilliant playwright Goldoni in their historical context. We will also treat architecture (Roman, Medieval, Renaissance), art (Giotto, Masaccio, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Caravaggio, etc.), and music (madrigals, early opera, baroque). Students will come to comprehend the beauty and complexity of Italian culture, as well as reflect upon the way it has shaped their own experience. Cross-listed with ITAL 3000
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
IDIS 3004Interdisciplinary Studies Research Seminar3
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course introduces Interdisciplinary Studies as a means of solving complex problems by integrating the insights of multiple disciplines. Students develop the conceptual and procedural skills essential to producing excellent interdisciplinary research. Conceptual skills include the capacity to deal with complexity, understand multiple viewpoints, and connect ideas. Procedural skills include the ability to develop research questions, identify relevant disciplines, search diverse literatures, and evaluate disciplinary insights. The culminating assignment of the course requires students to write a proposal for the interdisciplinary research project or creative scholarly activity based on their own disciplinary interests and experience, which they will implement in IDIS 4004 .
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
IDIS 3100Italian Culture (in English) II - From 1800 to the Present3
Credit(s) Offered: may be less than every two years A continuation of ITAL 3000 , the dynamic expressions of Italian culture from 1800 to the present day will be presented. Works by the sublime poet Leopardi, the modern playwright Pirandello and the playful storyteller Calvino will be explored in their historical context, alongside contemporary currents in art, music and film. A four-week segment of the course will be devoted entirely to film, focusing on cinematic portrayals of Italy during World War II and the post-war period. Cross-listed with ITAL 3100
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This course (taught in English) surveys the interdisciplinary areas and approaches that shape Latino/a/x Studies. It introduces students to the narrative construction of the Latino experience in the United States from a contemporary and historical perspective. We’ll analyze cultural forces interrelating Latino communities with U.S. society as expressed in literary and other texts. Students will, therefore, evaluate how identity politics correlates to the complexities of literary/artistic production and analysis, Latino racial and ethnic hybridity, the history of Latinidad, diasporic/migratory processes, and the representation of Latinos in the media (digital magazines, social media, etc.).
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: once every two years. This seminar-style course (in English) focuses on the experiences of Italian Women through the centuries. Course material will include letters, memoirs, non-fiction, poetry, theatre, short stories and novels of Italian Women, linking them to key social, political and historical developments. Students will also be introduced to women’s voices in Italian cinema and music. Cross-listed with ITAL 3300
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester While the capstone seminar is required for all IDIE majors, the candidates who have a dual major in Interdisciplinary Studies and Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle School and Special Education, have a capstone seminar designed to combine their majors. Candidates identify a topic theme in a content area that is connected with the Massachusetts Curriculum frameworks and then review the literature on the topics of one of their three areas in interdisciplinary studies. A thematic unit which may be implemented in the classroom and uses technology and an oral presentation is the key project. Metacognitive activities will be used to assist the university student in reflecting about their teaching and to identify areas for further development.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: twice per academic year The IDIS capstone course is the culmimating experience for the IDIS major; as part of the capstone experience, students will carry out the research project or creative scholarly activity designed in IDIS 3004 . In this course, students will examine information from each of their fields of study and look for connections among each discipline. Emphasis will be placed on analyzing a problem/topic from more than one disciplinary perspective and producing a final project that integrates information from each field of study in a way that showcases both the student’s depth and breadth of knowledge in fields of study and the interdisciplinary nature of the capstone project. Students will also reflect on their experiences in the program and consider future personal and career goals.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) This course is the culminating learning experience in the General Education Program. Students taking this course will engage with questions such as: what does it mean to receive a degree from a liberal arts and sciences university? What do individual majors have in common with General Education learning outcomes and skills as students look ahead to their personal and professional lives post-graduation? In this General Education capstone course, primarily through the development of a portfolio as well as other activities, students will reflect on their progress through the General Education curriculum and probe the significance of what it means to be a student of the liberal arts and sciences.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: upon request by student Special project or an independent research program. The course is proposed by the student on a Special Studies form and approved by the Chair of Humanities. The content of this course should demonstrate the integration of the student’s fields of study.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: upon request by student Special project or an independent research program. The course is proposed by the student on the Special Studies form and approved by the Chair of Humanities. The content of this course should demonstrate the integration of the student’s fields of study.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
5
Credits (max)
5
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: upon request by student Special project or an independent research program. The course is proposed by the student on the Special Studies form and approved by the Chair of Humanities. The content of this course should demonstrate the integration of the student’s fields of study.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
6
Credits (max)
6
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: upon request by student Special project or an independent research program. The course is proposed by the student on the Special Studies form and approved by the Chair of Humanities. The content of this course should demonstrate the integration of the student’s fields of study.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
9
Credits (max)
9
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: upon request by student Special project or an independent research program. The course is proposed by the student on the Special Studies form and approved by the Chair of Humanities. The content of this course should demonstrate the integration of the student’s fields of study.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
12
Credits (max)
12
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: upon request by student Special project or an independent research program. The course is proposed by the student on the Special Studies form and approved by the Chair of Humanities. The content of this course should demonstrate the integration of the student’s fields of study.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
15
Credits (max)
15
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: upon request by student The Independent Study is open to students with the permission of the supervision instructor and the department. Meeting times and credit are determined upon approval.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
IDIS 4903Independent Study in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies3
Credit(s) Offered: upon request by student The Independent Study is open to students with the permission of the supervision instructor and the department. Meeting times and credit are determined upon approval.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: Spring This course is a 6 credit, semester-long learning opportunity that capitalizes on previous academic study and applies it to the professional world in such a way as to prepare students for the transition into their chosen careers. The internship combines mentored professional experiences with academic assignments, and requires 18 hours of work each week of the semester.
Subject
IDIS
Credits (min)
6
Credits (max)
6
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
