MASTER'S PROGRAM DIRECTORY: GUIDELINES TO ADD OR UPDATE YOUR PROGRAM'S INFORMATION
Dear Interdisciplinary Master’s Program Representative,
Thank you for your interest in submitting or updating your program’s information in the Association for Integrative Studies’ Interdisciplinary Master’s Program Directory.
Before beginning this process, please make sure that you have read the “Master’s Directory Introduction” in its entirety, as this document will help to familiarize you with the format of the directory and its criteria for inclusion. You will be submitting your information by completing the Master's Program Directory Survey in an electronic form online.
These Survey Guidelines will help you to complete the Master's Program Directory Survey, which will be used to list your program’s information on the AIS website. Please print a copy of this document before beginning so you can easily refer to it as you complete the form.
Here are some general guidelines to use when filling out the survey form:
• Please fill in or check only the information that applies to your program.
• The final survey that you submit should not exceed 1 page in length, so structure your responses to the “Description” and other information accordingly.
• If you do not have information for any section of the “Program Statistics” or “Contact Information,” please enter “No information available.” All other sections of the survey need to be filled out completely.
• When in doubt about a certain survey component, please err on the side of keeping it simple.
Basic Information:
• University name
• State: Choose from the dropdown menu
• Degree Title: The title of the degree
• Program acronym: If your program has an acronym, please include the acronym on the same line as the degree title.
Program Path:
• IDS Type: After familiarizing yourself with the IDS Types in the Master’s Directory Introduction, select “Unrestricted IDS” OR “Departmentally Restricted IDS.”
• Program Type: After familiarizing yourself with Program Type, select “Fixed” OR “Foundational” OR “Floating” followed immediately by “IDS Program.”
• Description: Please use the description on your program’s homepage. At the end of your description, please cite the description in the following format: (From: website) OR (From: Program PDF) etc.
Program Structure:
• Admission Requirements: Check all the admission requirements that apply to your program. Include numerical information for requirements, as indicated. DO NOT include ANY written descriptions.
• Credit Hours: The total credits required to complete the degree (e.g. “36 credits').
• Required Coursework: The total required credits in the degree (e.g. “12 credits”)
o NOTE: While most exit coursework, such as Capstone Seminars and Thesis Research courses, are required, these courses have been separated from the “Required Coursework” in order to more clearly establish what will be required for students in the program to complete the degree. Please distinguish what required coursework in your program is exit coursework, and include it in the “Exit Courses & Work” below. All other required coursework belongs in this section.
• Individually Selected Coursework: The total individually selected credits in the degree (e.g. “18 credits”)
o NOTE: Many programs have degree elements such as “concentrations” or “tracks.” The “Individually Selected Coursework” section of this survey is NOT the place to explain this aspect of your program, but rather to answer for prospective students and interested scholars “How many credits of the total degree are students allowed to select on their own, assuming that they meet all the prerequisites required for registration?” In general, these are labeled “Electives.”
• Exit Courses & Work: The total credits of exit coursework required for the degree (e.g. “6 credits”). Include the number AND kind of courses AND any required final projects or papers (e.g. “One Advanced Research Course, One Capstone Seminar, and Masters Thesis”).
• Established Department(s) of Focus: This element of the survey is directly related to the “IDS Type” in the “Program Path” section above. If your program is “Unrestricted IDS,” check “Open.” If your program’s “IDS Type is “Departmentally Restricted IDS,” this is the section where you can list all the departments in which students are allowed to take courses. It may also be appropriate and expedient to write something like “Any Course in the College of Arts and Sciences,” if this is the case.
Program Statistics:
• Faculty: The number of department faculty, the number of associate faculty, OR no IDS specific faculty information available.
• Students: This section lets students know what kind of students the program accepts in terms of residential requirements and full- or part-time status. Please select all phrases that are appropriate for your program from the following: “Resident students only” OR “Low-Residency students allowed” AND “Part-time students allowed.”
• Program History: Year that the program was established.
Contact Information:
• Address: The program’s office address.
• Phone Numbers: Program office phone number. Because of the continually shifting nature of department faculty, we encourage your program to list a set phone number for the program, instead of a faculty member’s phone number. If you would like to include both, please put the office number first.
• Email: Program email address. For the same reason as above, if your program would like to include a faculty email address, please put the general program email address first.
• Website: Copy and paste the web address of your program’s homepage here.
Click here for a sample Master's Program Directory listing. Sample Listing>>
Click below to access the online form to begin submitting your program's information.
If you have any questions that you cannot figure out with the help of these documents, please contact AIS at aisorg@muohio.edu.