How does an interdisciplinary major fit into a disciplinary perspective?
To the extent that a student is in a major, we’re typically referring to the major as a discipline. It could also be defined as a field, or even as a perspective. Some majors are by definition interdisciplinary while others are to a lesser extent. We’re recognizing that faculty and students fall into departments that offer majors, so that discipline is a shorthand definition that works for most people. Students will not be required to “represent” a broad discipline; they will be asked to identify their own field or fields of interest and explore ways in which people in the field address the global issue associated with the course. Naturally, students will also develop some expertise in the disciplinary work and perspectives of the course itself. The “integration” will occur as students combine perspectives from multiple fields or disciplines and add new knowledge to previous knowledge.
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