Undergraduates may earn a Bridging Disciplines Programs (BDP) certificate in one of 17 different concentration areas. BDP certificates allow students from a variety of majors to explore their interests and learning goals. The list below includes BDP certificate topics relevant to students with interests in arts and creativity. Explore the list below to see how the 17 BDP certificates overlap with your interests.
Children & Society – Children, Media, and the Arts Strand Concentration
- Explores the development of children and the social forces that impact them, focusing on topics such as adolescence; children and health; children, media, and the arts; children and public policy; and more. The Children, Media, and the Arts Strand Concentration of this program focuses on teaching and developing artistic expression in children. Music, literature, drama, and mass media influences on children are topic areas that students in this strand can explore.
- Teaches students to apply a multidisciplinary framework for human-centered design thinking in order to solve product, systems, service, and social problems.
- Explores the use of computer technology and production techniques to create digital art. Students develop skills in areas such as gaming, animation, computer-generated music, and interactive media.
Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship
- Allows students to develop skills to bring creative thinking and an entrepreneurial mindset to their career goals, whether they are interested in turning their ideas into a new venture or initiative, being part of a startup team, or bringing creative new ideas into more established organizations.
- Offers the opportunity to develop an understanding of how museums, archives, libraries, galleries, and related institutions function as sites of collecting, education, and research.
Non-profits & Social Entrepreneurship – Arts and Social Change Concentration
- Introduces students to social enterprise and administration of non-profit organizations. Concentration areas include art and social change; community welfare and social justice; environment; health and healthcare; international development; and youth and family. Students in the Art and Social Change Strand Concentration explore the ways in which the creative arts can be employed to promote social change.