Interdisciplinary Studies and Liberal Studies

This course introduces students to research, literacy, knowledge production and knowledge organization. This course will also examine how knowledge has been organized in different settings and in different fields (such as the sciences and the humanities) and how its reorganization processes relate to social, historical and cultural issues, such as power, identity and ideology. Students …

This course explores how systems of knowledge evolve and discusses creativity practices through a selection of representative examples of intellectual enterprises pursued outside disciplinary boundaries. These creative practices may involve artistic, literary, religious, scientific, philosophical, cultural or political paradigm shifts (among others) reviewed in the context of knowledge creation theories.

Prerequisite: INDS 250. This course exposes students to interdisciplinary research by using two main approaches: interdisciplinarity as both multidisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. Students will recognize the constraints of disciplinary boundaries and create disciplinary connections in order to integrate different perspectives.

Prerequisite: INDS 350. This course teaches students both how to develop their own individual interdisciplinary project proposal and how to collaborate in an interdisciplinary research team to produce an interdisciplinary group project proposal. Students research and propose interdisciplinary projects and present them for class evaluation. The written proposals will require the identification of an interdisciplinary …

Prerequisite: INDS 400. This capstone requires students to complete a group interdisciplinary project on a topic of their choice by using scholarly expertise and expertise available in their class. Projects may come from ideas developed in previous INDS classes and can include a paper, an app, an artifact, a community project, an installation, a performance, …