What is the Interdisciplinary Cluster Initiative?
The Interdisciplinary Cluster Initiative is a program designed to help graduate students during their academic career at Northwestern by fostering connections with students and faculty in other programs with whom they might have natural intellectual affinities. Interdisciplinary clusters in different areas of intellectual inquiry have been developed by faculty across schools and programs and will provide a second intellectual home for incoming and current graduate students. Clusters offer their own discrete courses as well as sponsor a number of activities and events for students and faculty. Students interested in choosing their electives so as to pursue dedicated interdisciplinary study in this program should visit www.tgs.northwestern.edu/academics/interdisciplinary for more information about the intellectual activities of the various clusters. Prospective students have the opportunity to select on their application to graduate school the cluster with which they would like to affili
