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Office of Interdisciplinary Studies

Junior Interdisciplinary Seminar

The Junior Interdisciplinary Seminar (JINS) program offers students a chance to integrate approaches and methods from two or more disciplines.  A JINS course allows students to explore topics and perspectives that contrast and complement those of the student's major. 

The JINS program was created to:

  • Expose students to multiple ways of thinking about issues, problems, and concepts 

  • Enable the simultaneous use of multiple modes of inquiry

  • Demonstrate that their source of power is synergistic rather than additive 

  • Help students construct their own mental framework of retrievable knowledge

  • Make possible an evaluation of competing and complementary ways of knowing 

Each JINS course also contributes to the completion of the mandatory Writing-Enhanced  portion of every student's undergraduate curriculum.  To find out more about the Writing-Enhanced aspect of the JINS course, click here.

The JINS course is usually taken after a student has completed sixty hours of coursework at Truman.  It is advised that students are enrolled in JINS courses during the first semester of their Junior year.

Every semester, Truman offers JINS courses like The Aesthetics of Food, American Social Character and Sport and Society.  There are currently 78 JINS courses in rotation, but only 30-35 courses are taught each semester, so plan ahead!

For JINS offerings for the current or upcoming semester, click here