Areas of Study
As a UWW Interdisciplinary Studies student, you will work with your academic advising team to build an individualized concentration that meets your educational and professional goals and leads to degree completion.
Online courses taught by experienced UMass Amherst instructors are available through over 40 academic departments to support a wide range of high-demand areas of study. Or you may decide to study something completely different. The choice is yours.
Courses are even offered asynchronously—meaning you can complete them when you have time—providing you optimal flexibility.
Best of all, for any degree concentration you build, you'll have the opportunity to earn credit for your work and life experience.
Use your imagination and build the degree program you’ve been dreaming of by creating your own individualized concentration.
Advocate for social, economic and climate justice, and advance your career in law, education, civil rights, community organizing, and more.
Become a leader in fields like counseling and administration, mental health and addiction services, and more, or prepare for graduate school.
Advance your career in non-profit arts administration, gallery management, or as the owner/manager of an arts organization, program, or business.
Harness your entrepreneurial spirit and advance your career in finance, marketing, management, and more, or prepare for your MBA.
Elevate your career working for agencies and programs serving children, youth, and families, or start your journey to becoming a teacher.
Prepare for a career in growing fields such as public safety, corrections, policing, victim advocacy, and more.
Open your own child care center, become a preschool educator, or advance your career within public or private child care and afterschool programs.
Strengthen your career with specialized courses in media programming, filmmaking, visual storytelling, public relations, social media, and more.
Launch your career in public health, community health, health care administration, management, education, advocacy, policy, and more.
Position yourself within this growing market, and advance your career in recruiting, training, compensation, employee relations, and more.
Prepare for high-demand jobs in child and youth services, child protective services, victim advocacy, social work, disability services, and more.
Kickstart your career in reporting, news writing, visual storytelling, public relations, content marketing, social media, and more.
Build the communications, leadership, teamwork, problem-solving, critical-thinking, and decision-making skills that all employers are seeking.
Advance your career in food and farming, sustainable community, business and entrepreneurship, public health, food justice, and more.
Develop the foundational skills you need to become a successful teacher of English to speakers of other languages.
Develop your language mediation skills with the only multilingual bachelor's with a focus in translation and interpreting in the U.S.
Immerse yourself in writing and literature across genres, and advance your career in creative writing, commercial writing, public relations, and more.