2026-2027 Undergraduate Bulletin > Course Descriptions > ISP-Interdisciplinary Studies

ISP-Interdisciplinary Studies

Department of Interdisciplinary Studies

• ISP 100 Justice: Who's In, Who's Out
• ISP 101 Seeking the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on New York
• ISP 110 When Nature Roars: Global Catastrophe & Human Responsibility
• ISP 112 Going Places: Travel & Transformation
• ISP 115 Voices of Migration: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Global Movement
• ISP 122 "Those" People: Stereotypes in U.S.A.
• ISP 125 You Are What You Eat: Food & Culture in the U.S.
• ISP 130 Creative Movements: How, When and Why They Happen
• ISP 132 Monsters and What They Mean
• ISP 134 Imagining Other Worlds
• ISP 135 True Crime and Popular Culture
• ISP 140 Murder: Historical and Cultural Perspectives
• ISP 145 Why Gender Matters
• ISP 147 Life Stories
• ISP 160 The Twentieth Century: A Decade in Depth
• ISP 171 Ripped from the Headlines: Art from Current Events
• ISP 205 Doing Justice
• ISP 211 Revolutions
• ISP 215 Colorism: A Global Perspective on Colonial Violence
• ISP 225 Re-Envisioning the U.S.A.
• ISP 224 Constructions of Difference in the U.S.A.
• ISP 226 White Supremacy: Constructions of Race and Institutionalized Racism
• ISP 235 Apples & Oranges: Form & Meaning in the Arts
• ISP 236 Truth & Creativity: How We Make Meaning
• ISP 237 Laughing at Ourselves: Comedy and Identity
• ISP 242 Stuff: An Investigation into the Meaning of Things
• ISP 246 Forbidden Love: Cultural and Social Perspectives
• ISP 248 Getting Even: Forgiveness and Revenge
• ISP 255 Technology and Culture
• ISP 260 The Twentieth Century: A Decade in Depth
• ISP 264 Remembering & Forgetting in Public & Private
• ISP 265 Evolution and Its Impact
• ISP 273 The Stories We Tell
• ISP 277 Experiential Learning in Social Justice: Field Preparation
• ISP 289 Independent Study 200-level
• ISP 321 Moral, Legal and Ethical Dilemmas that Shape the U.S.A.
• ISP 322 Making Waves: Troublemakers, Gadflies and Whistleblowers
• ISP 334 Sex, Gender and Justice in Global Perspective
• ISP 335 Violence in the Pursuit of Justice
• ISP 336 Just Intentions: Global Humanitarianism
• ISP 370 John Jay – Vera Institute Fellowship Seminar I
• ISP 371 John Jay – Vera Institute Fellowship Seminar II
• ISP 380 Selected Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies
• ISP 385 Faculty Mentored Research Experience in Interdisciplinary Studies
• ISP 389 Independent Study 300-level
• ISP 489 Independent Study 400-level