Academic programming
Interdisciplinary Studies
Our Bachelor's and Master's of Interdisciplinary Studies programs along with minors, certificates, and courses, empower you to shape a personalized education. Whether you're blending fields or creating your own path, our programs help you lead with bold, cross-disciplinary thinking. By learning across disciplines, you’ll gain adaptable, big-picture thinking.
Innovation
Through our Undergraduate Certificate in Product Innovation and Innovation and Human-Centered Design courses, students from all backgrounds collaborate to launch ventures, develop products and bring big ideas to life with collaboration with industry partnerships.
Life Design
Your academic journey is built around your interests and passions. Through our reflective Life Design program, you’ll evolve and integrate your experiences, build skills and confidence, and collaborate to solve real-world problems that encourage you to ask bold questions.
Credit for Prior Learning
We value the knowledge gained outside the classroom. Non-traditional students can earn academic credit by developing a portfolio that reflects their lived and professional experiences.
Interdisciplinary Studies
Design a degree as unique as your goals. This program lets you build a customized curriculum.
Create your own graduate-level path by combining coursework across fields. This program supports ambitious students seeking personalized, interdisciplinary study.
AI +
VCU's Graduate Certificate in Applied Artificial Intelligence is designed to strengthen those skills by putting AI to work alongside them. Through a non-programming, practice-focused curriculum, you'll learn how to evaluate AI tools, apply them strategically, and navigate the complex decisions that come with them, all while staying grounded in human-centered values.
Designed for all majors, this minor explores AI’s real-world applications and ethical impact across industries—preparing students to use AI thoughtfully in their chosen field.
Explore virtual, augmented, and mixed reality across tech, culture, art, and storytelling. This minor connects disciplines to prepare students for immersive, digitally-mediated futures.
Innovation
Collaborate across disciplines to learn product design, development, and launch strategies. This certificate runs alongside your major and gives you hands-on experience in innovation. The Certificate in Product Innovation program runs concurrently with a student’s major and is not a stand-alone program.
Curious about innovating, design thinking, or real-world problem-solving? These open-access courses welcome all majors and help you turn creative ideas into action.
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Backed by dedicated advisors and faculty, you’ll be supported at every step as you chart a path that reflects your passions, expands your perspective, and prepares you to thrive in a complex, ever-changing world.
