Carnegie Mellon also introduced a new Bachelor of Humanitities and the Arts degree administered jointly by the College of Fine Arts and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences . In engineering, a revamped curriculum accelerated students' immersion into the engineering field. Throughout the institution, students have enjoyed more flexible curricula providing more choices and opportunities. The CIL resulted from the successful collaboration of physics and cognitive psychology faculty to create some innovative basic physics courses. This model, in which a faculty member from a particular discipline is paired with a cognitive psychologist, is being used by the CIL to redesign basic courses in world history and calculus.
Similar initiatives are soon to be undertaken in other disciplines.
The CIL also focuses on evaluation. The center develops and helps to deploy instruments to evaluate new courses and educational innovations. Center members are also developing instruments to assess the reading, writing, mathematical and computing skills of incoming students to enhance the university's ability to develop courses suited to students' needs. Thus, the research competence of the university is being used to improve undergraduate education. The university also has a two-tiered program underway to promote the use of interactive multimedia in support of courses.