GCAS College Dublin

Interdisciplinary Studies Department

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The future of education is about connecting subjects, ideas, innovations, and discoveries in often imperceivable ways. This is why our BA Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies is built on seminars and courses that expose the student to multiple disciplines through collaborative teaching, projects, peer-groups, mentors and assignments designed to acquire, apply and create knowledge and practices.

About the Interdisciplinary Studies Department at GCAS

Our goal is to provide the venue where theoretical and practical ideas for the 21st century can emerge and converge in order to address vexing issues of our time: from climate change, to economic inequality and prosperity, to new clean energy development.

78% of the BA program, the student will study with the wider community and in small peer groups guided by mentors and faculty. In the remaining 22% (40 credits) the student will either choose to: (a) specialize by focusing on a specific discipline (for example, Start-Up Studies, English Literature, Psychology, Philosophy, etc.); or, (b) take electives courses.

Bachelors Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies

Length: 3 Years (Full Time)

Tuition: 6,000€/ Year (Funding Available)

Requirements: High School Degree or Equivalent

Start Date: September, 2023

Format: Online & In Residence

Co-Ownership after Graduation

Specializations:

Social and Political Thought

Critical Theory

Sustainable Living

Interdisciplinary Department Chair:

Dejan Lukić, Ph.D.

Interdisciplinary Department Faculty:

Creston Davis, Ph.D. (University of Virginia) Chancellor, Associate Professor of philosophy and religion, Founding Director of GCAS.

Bracha L Ettinger, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Philosophy. 

Keith Faulkner, Ph.D. (University of Warwick) Associate Professor of Philosophy

Francisco Gonzalez, Ph.D. (Catholic University, Chile) Assistant Professor of Arts and Philosophy, Director of GCAS-South America

Dejan Lukic, Ph.D. (Columbia University) Vice-Chancellor, Associate Professor of Anthropology

Jean-Luc Nancy, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Philosophy (Rest in Peace)

Julie Reshe, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Psychoanalysis, and Director of the GCAS Psychoanalysis Institute. 

Tere Vadén, Ph.D. (University of Tampere) Professor of Philosophy

Daniel Benzali, Golden Globe Award Nominee, Affiliate Professor of Drama

Alexandra Gabbard, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor of English & Literature

Ekaterina Filippova, Ph.D. Researcher, Lecturer in Psychology & Psychoanalysis

Thomas Hampton, Ph.D. Researcher, Lecturer in Start-Up Studies

Preston Junger, Co-Founder, Mile Square Labs, Chair of the Start-Up Studies Department

Erica Kitzman, Ph.D. Researcher, Lecturer of English & Literature

Tom Sauer, Co-Founder, Mile Square Labs, Lecturer in the Start-Up Studies Department

Tod Sloan, Ph.D., Professor of Critical Psychology

Margaret Young, BA (Yale University) MA (UC-Davis), Lecturer of Poetry & Literature