The Curriculum and Instruction major is only offered in conjunction with a concentration area. The purpose of the Interdisciplinary track in the Ph.D. degree is to provide a framework to support innovative, boundary-crossing inquiry among students and faculty across campus. Designed to foster research that approaches problems in education from interdisciplinary perspectives, the major allows students who have academic backgrounds and interests that span multiple disciplines to construct an individualized program of study grounded in at least two fields, one of which may be outside the College of Education. Students who have the ability and desire to integrate study and research between at least two disciplines/fields to address questions in education broadly defined are encouraged to apply to the Interdisciplinary track. Accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of College and Schools.