Hampshire helped invent the notion of interdisciplinary education, based on the idea that questions and issues are best examined from multiple perspectives.

Instead of traditional, single-discipline departments, Hampshire's curriculum is organized into five interdisciplinary schools:

	Transcending Boundaries
	Students may want to combine talents within the arts, such as writing and photography, with a particular cultural interest. Or they may want to address problems of war and peace, of environmental policy, or of the uses of new information technology, which demand scientific as well as political, economic, and ethical understanding.

School of Cognitive Science
The School engages students with interests ranging from psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience to animal behavior, child development, computer science, digital multimedia, and linguistics.

School of Critical Social Inquiry
Formerly the School of Social Science, this school is at the forefront of integrating programs in activism, politics, and theory, and examines child development from cross-disciplinary perspectives.

School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies
Students' interests range from philosophy, literature, film, video, photography, history, dance, painting, art history, cultural theory and history, critical theory, religious studies, studio arts, ancient studies, music, American studies,  media studies, environmental design, and architecture. 

School for Interdisciplinary Arts
Students and professors work across boundaries of art forms such as theatre, sculpture, writing, literature, children's theatre, creative drama, and arts and social action.

School of Natural Science
Undergraduate students involve themselves in original scientific research. Areas of interest include environmental sciences, agricultural studies, health sciences, and more.