The Senior Program

The Senior Program serves as an integrating and culminating experience for all Hamilton students. At the center of the Senior Program is the senior project, in which you focus and apply the knowledge and skills you have developed in your first three years of study. The senior project takes different forms in different disciplines. But each student works closely with at least one faculty member, and the project typically concludes with a public presentation or defense. As a student with an interdisciplinary concentration, you will design your own Senior Program as part of your overall plan of study; the Committee on Academic Standing must approve it.

Recent examples of research projects in interdisciplinary studies include:

Interdisciplinary Studies in Food Studies

• Stirring the Pot: Redefining Food Security Work in Utica

Interdisciplinary Studies in Italian Studies

• Life Underneath the Paintbrush: An Analysis of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Human Dissections for Art

Interdisciplinary Studies in Digital Design

• Connecting to Nature Through Design

Interdisciplinary Studies in Technology Studies

• Friends and Enemies: TikTok and the Retreat of a Global Internet

Senior Fellowship in Environmental Studies and Sociology

• Renewable Energy and Agricultural Transitions: Navigating Rural Climate Action in New York and New Zealand