ALLEN F. REPKO

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Consulting/External Evaluating Experience:

1. Which institutions and programs?

Consulting activities at AIS conferences

2007—AIS workshop on Interdisciplinary Syllabus Design & Learning Outcomes

2. Nature of issues addressed (e.g. general education, majors, administration, faculty development, assessment, self-study)

Assessment (building a comprehensive assessment regime for an interdisciplinary program); administration of an IDS program; design of IDS core curricula.

3. Stages of development (e.g. exploration and rationale, pilot, implementation, expansion, evaluation.

How to transform a multidisciplinary program into an interdisciplinary program.

Background:

1. Disciplinary expertise (e.g. degrees, training, teaching/research experience).

PhD, History (University of Missouri-Columbia)

MA, History (University of Missouri-Columbia)

Undergraduate teaching primarily: interdisciplinary research and theory; introduction to interdisciplinary studies (General Education); senior paper (capstone), interdisciplinary internship.

Research: The IDS research process; student learning outcomes for IDS courses and programs; assessment of IDS courses and programs.

2. Interdisciplinary areas (e.g., fields such as women’s studies, subjects such as environmental studies, areas such as social science).

First advanced textbook on interdisciplinary studies: Interdisciplinary Research: Process and Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2008.

3. Skills (e.g., teaching composition, computer conferencing, team-teaching).

Program mission statements; IDS syllabus design; IDS program design.

4. Positions (e.g., lead faculty, associate provost, program director).

Director of the 700-student IDS program at the University of Texas as Arlington; curriculum developer.

5. Institutional experience (e.g., private liberal arts college, church-related university).

UTA, state university; church-related university.