Mount Union's Department of JDIH
The Department of Justice, Diversity, and Interdisciplinary Humanities (JDIH) offers five innovative, stand-alone minors: Africana studies, gender and sexuality studies, peacebuilding and social justice, philosophy, and religious studies. These programs offer unique perspectives and experiential learning geared toward helping students understand the world around them on a deeper level, which makes each minor a great complement to any major area of study. Students in JDIH minors have ample opportunity to engage in site visits, independent and collaborative research, service opportunities, internships, and travel (both domestic and international).
JDIH offers courses in these minors and in the Integrative Core that focus on navigating difference and diversity, solving problems, and addressing issues that are often too complex to be dealt with by a single discipline. This is the nature of interdisciplinary engagement: recognizing that we need people from all academic fields working together if we are to think well and act strategically to resolve our world’s most dire problems, such as poverty, violent conflict, intolerance, and prejudice.
