Interdisciplinary Arts Minor

The Undergraduate Minor in Interdisciplinary Arts (“Inter-Arts Minor”) allows students in any major to design a study plan that combines their critical and creative interests, as they learn to make meaningful connections across multiple disciplines. Through a small set of core classes, electives, and a senior year capstone, students in the Inter-Arts Minor will learn theories and techniques of creative practice and research and become familiar with a wide array of art, from live performance to creative writing, visual art to multimedia installation, and much in between.

Do you want to learn more about what “interdisciplinary” might mean for you? Explore these interdisciplinary capstone projects completed last year in the senior workshop, or click through the sample pathways below.

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Dr. Jessi Pipert
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Stanford Arts Institute
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Sample Pathways

Computer Science Major, Inter-Arts Minor

Capstone idea:

An interactive installation that captures the viewer’s image and inserts it into a projected film clip (inspired by Cristóbal Sciutto)

Core (13 units)

ARTSINST 101: Introduction to the Arts: Think, Make, Create (4)
ARTSINST 11Q: Art in the Metropolis (NYC immersion course) (3)
ARTS 200A, 200B, 200C: Interdisciplinary Arts Capstone Workshop (6)

Electives (14 units min.)

ARTHIST 168A: A.I.-Activism-Art (CSRE 106A, English 106A, SYMSYS 168A) (3)
ARTSTUDI 130: Interactive Art: Making it with Arduino (4)
ARTSTUDI 163: Drawing with Code (4)
FRENCH 87N: The New Wave: How the French Reinvented Cinema (3)

ITALIC Route, Inter-Arts Minor

Capstone idea:

A multimedia exhibition exploring Black vernacular cultures

Core (14 units)

ARTSINST 101: Introduction to the Arts: Think, Make, Create (4)
ITALIC 91: Immersion in the Arts: Living in Culture, Creating (4)
ARTS 200A, 200B, 200C: Interdisciplinary Arts Capstone Workshop (6)

Electives (13 units min.)

ITALIC 92: Immersion in the Arts: Living in Culture, Art Worlds: Conversations between Artists and Scholars (2)
AFRICAAM 200N: Funkentelechy: Technologies, Social Justice and Black Vernacular Cultures (EDUC 314, STS 200N) (4)
AFRICAAM 42: Clothing and Black Expressive Culture in African American History (5)
MUSIC 18B: Jazz History: Bebop to Present, 1940-Present (AFRICAAM 18B) (3)

Biomedical Engineering Major, Inter-Arts Minor

Capstone idea:

A photography series of anatomical body paintings (inspired by Savannah Mohacsi)

Core (13 units)

ARTSINST 101: Introduction to the Arts: Think, Make, Create (4)
ARTSTUDI 21AX: Bay Area Arts Immersion (2) + Reflection paper (1)
ARTS 200A, 200B, 200C: Interdisciplinary Arts Capstone Workshop (6)

Electives (14 units min.)

ARTSTUDI 243: Anatomy for Artists (3)
ENGLISH 179: Disease Narratives (5)
COMPLIT 138: Literature and the Brain (ENGLISH 118, FRENCH 118, PSYC 126, PSYCH 118F) (3)
MED 53Q: Storytelling in Medicine (3)

Earth System Science Major, Inter-Arts Minor

Capstone idea:

A collection of Sci-Fi short stories set on different future versions of the Earth

Core (13 units)

ARTSINST 101: Introduction to the Arts: Think, Make, Create (4)
ARTSINST 11Q: Art in the Metropolis (NYC immersion course) (3)
ARTS 200A, 200B, 200C: Interdisciplinary Arts Capstone Workshop (6)

Electives (14 units min.)

AFRICAAM 171 Peering into darkness: critical research practices in contemporary art & astrophysics (4)
AMSTUD 43X: Starstuff: Space and the American Imagination (3)
BIOHOPK 157H: Creative Writing & Science: The Artful Interpreter (5)
GEOLSCI 30N: Designing Science Fiction Planets (GEOPHYS 30N) (3)

English Major, Inter-Arts Minor

Capstone idea:

A novel exploring the life of a visual artist (inspired by Gracie Newman)

Core (13 units)

ARTSINST 101: Introduction to the Arts: Think, Make, Create (4)
ARTSINST 11Q: Art in the Metropolis (NYC immersion course) (3)
ARTS 200A, 200B, 200C: Interdisciplinary Arts Capstone Workshop (6)

Electives (14 units min.)

ARTHIST 294: Writing and the Visual: The Art of Art Writing (5)
ENGLISH 9CWA: Word/Art (3)
PSYC 111Q: The Changing Face of “Mental Illness” in Women: Historical, Medical and Artistic Approaches (3)
FEMGEN 188Q: Imagining Women: Writers in Print and Person (CSRE 188Q) (4)

Architectural Design Major, Inter-Arts Minor

Capstone idea:

A social sculpture piece at a commemorative site

Core (14 units)

ARTSINST 101: Introduction to the Arts: Think, Make, Create (4)
ARTSINST 11Q: OSPBER 60: Cityscape as History: Architecture and Urban Design in Berlin (5)
ARTS 200A, 200B, 200C: Interdisciplinary Arts Capstone Workshop (6)

Electives (13 units min.)

AFRICAAM 54S: From Stanford to Stone Mountain: U.S. History, Memory, and Monument (HISTORY 54S) (5)
ANTHRO 95C: Monumental Pasts: Cultural Heritage and Politics (ARCHLGY 95) (5)
TAPS 155: Social Sculpture (ARTSTUDI 155) (4)

Political Science Major, Inter-Arts Minor

Capstone idea:

A devised documentary theatre performance exploring restorative justice

Core (13 units)

ARTSINST 101: Introduction to the Arts: Think, Make, Create (4)
CSRE 11AX: Public Art Practice: Site Specific Installation (2) + Reflection (1)
ARTS 200A, 200B, 200C: Interdisciplinary Arts Capstone Workshop (6)

Electives (14 units min.)

ARTHIST 291: Riot: Visualizing Civil Unrest in the 20th and 21st Centuries (AFRICAAM 291, CSRE 290, FILMEDIA 291) (4)
CSRE 141E: Counterstory in Literature and Education (EDUC 141, LIFE 124) (3)
CLASSICS 17N: To Die For: Antigone and Political Dissent (3)
TAPS 264S: Race, Gender, Justice (COMPLIT 264T) (4)

English Major, Inter-Arts Minor

Capstone idea:

A work of interactive fiction in the style of a graphic novel

Core (14 units)

ARTSINST 101: Introduction to the Arts: Think, Make, Create (4)
ITALIC 91: Immersion in the Arts: Living in Culture, Creating (4)
ARTS 200A, 200B, 200C: Interdisciplinary Arts Capstone Workshop (6)

Electives (13 units min.)

COMM 166: Virtual People (5)
ENGLISH 13Q: Imaginative Realms (3)
AMSTUD 114X: Reading Comics (FILMEDIA 114) (5)

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Office

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Fax

(650) 723-8231

Email

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ADDRESS

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365 Lasuen Street
Stanford, CA 94305