Welcome to Interdisciplinary Studies!

This unique course shows you how the health care team works and your role in it. You will collaborate with other health related professions to solve problems, provide services, or develop new understandings.

The course will increase your understanding of the:

• Unique roles of health professionals.
• Knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to collaborate and work in teams.
• Shared roles and responsibilities of health and human service professionals in any team.
• Benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration to patients or clients, to the practice of a profession, to an individual’s professional growth, and to health care outcomes.

The course is designed to meet your individual career goals. You select how you will meet the course requirements by planning where you will focus your energy and choosing the types of experiences that will further develop your education of the roles of other professions and the health care team. You can develop your understanding of the diverse populations you will work with as a professional and acquire a broader perspective of health care.

To see the listing of activities available, click on the Activities link.  Each activity description outlines the steps involved and requirements for completion.  New activities will be posted on the website and updated announcements of new activities will be emailed.

The course is individualized to meet your specific needs. In addition to the posted activities, you can also develop your own activity to focus on your interests.  You need to have this activity approved by the INDS Course Coordinator before implementation.  See Activity Submission (Student-Generated Activity) in the activity list.  For more information see the Activity Submission link to your left.

Click here for INDS course syllabus.

For more information, you can contact INDS Course Coordinator Michelle Conley at (409)772-3006 or in person in SHP Office 4.230.