Fairhaven College

Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Type Public Baccalaureate
Established 1967
Dean Jack Herring
Academic staff
29
Location Bellingham, Washington, USA
Website Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies

Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies is an interdisciplinary liberal arts college at Western Washington University. Instead of completing the general education requirements at Western, students take interdisciplinary classes at Fairhaven which aim to cover the same breadth and depth of subjects, but within small, interdisciplinary seminars. When it comes time to move onto "concentrated studies" students have the option of pursuing any of the majors or minors offered by Western Washington University, but may also choose to shape their own interdisciplinary concentration or major, combining independent study, internships, and Western Washington University courses with Fairhaven courses to define their course of study. Another unique feature of the college is almost all classes follow a small seminar format rather than a lecture. Class enrollment is rarely above twenty students and will sometimes have two professors for a given class instead of only one. Another distinction of Fairhaven College is that students do not receive letter grades but are instead given narrative evaluations, in addition to writing their own self-evaluations, for each class.

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Coordinates: 48°43′49″N 122°29′09″W / 48.73028°N 122.48583°W / 48.73028; -122.48583

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