After nearly a year's absence from LinkedIn, I've recently returned to the platform and am working to improve my profile. When LI prompts me to select, from a menu, what my undergrad studies consisted of ...
"Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies" is as close as I can get, but it doesn't say much, does it? So I guess this is a good opportunity for me to fill in some details.
The actual term in the university calendar was "multidisciplinary honours." Not combined; that would mean two majors, and possibly a minor. What I was combining included the equivalent of a minor in French literature, and another in art history. But officially, the degree was composed of three majors.
Above the threshold for a major number of credits, I completed studies in classics, English, and German. The multidisciplinary degree had come to exist on paper only—the registrar's office didn't have further information about it when I inquired—but I think I was following breadcrumbs related to a recently retired program in comparative literature.
Rainer Friedrich (classics) and Anne Higgins (English) told me the comparative literature degree had recently evaporated, but they helped me coordinate this broad range of studies in languages and humanities. In the end, I completed my honors qualification in classics because that was the field I'd emphasized over the others.
It felt truly dramatic to be writing a capstone essay on Euripedes' Medea. Here's a public-domain picture of Medea as I remember her.
