Selected Interdisciplinary Syllabi
A Collection of Interdisciplinary Syllabi
This page offers a collection that will grow over time, as we seek to
present an extensive and varied array of excellent courses across subject
areas and levels. All courses listed are clearly interdisciplinary: They
draw on different disciplinary perspectives and ask students to integrate insights from
those perspectives. Course materials vary in the extent to which they
are explicit and self-conscious about these processes. Subheadings are
provided for convenience, though many courses do not fit neatly into
a particular category. We look forward to adding further subheadings
as we receive additional submissions. Courses are listed alphabetically
by author within each subhead.
Humanities:
Romantic Literature & the Arts, Stephen Gottlieb, Quinnipiac University
Course
Website
The Gothic Imagination, Robert Viau, Georgia College and State
University
Course
Website, Syllabus, Music
Assignments, Gothic Architecture
Assignments, Walpole
Assignments, Death
and Dying Assignments, Bosch Assignment
Social Sciences and Humanities:
The Holocaust, Mitchel Gerber, Southeast Missouri State University
Syllabus, Course
Proposal
Transforming Words: Poetry and Psychologies of Change, Jan Hitchcock, Lewiston-Auburn College, University of Southern Maine
Syllabus, Essay
1, Essay 2, Final
Project
Music and American Culture, Julie Thompson Klein, Wayne State University
Syllabus
Ethics and Social Institutions, Jeff Konz, University of North Carolina, Asheville
Syllabus
Bridging the Great Divide: The Achievement Gap in Schools and Society, Kris Mickelson and Dean A. Pribbenow, Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin
Syllabus, Course Contract, Student Questionnaire, Exercise 1, Exercise 2, Exercise 3, Exercise 4, Exercise 5
How Do You Know? Exploring Human Knowledge? Karen Moranski, University
of Illinois at Springfield
Syllabus, Schedule, Unit
1 Assignments, Unit 2 Assignments, Unit
3 Assignments
Language, Behavior, and Global English, Debra Parker, University of Illinois at Springfield
Syllabus,
Myth Project Prompt,
Final Interdisciplinary Project
Interdisciplinary Writing, Debra Parker, University of Illinois at Springfield
Syllabus and Schedule, Common Ground Journal
Visual Rhetorical Analysis Project:
Prompt,
Rubric,
Invention Worksheet, Peer Review Guide,
Presentation Guidelines
Writing in your Discipline Project:
Prompt,
Rubric,
Invention Worksheet, Source Analysis Worksheet,
Peer Review Guide, Presentation Criteria
Interdisciplinary Research Project:
Prompt, Rubric, Rubric Summary, Repko Research Process Study Guide,
Symposium Rubric
Cultures, Organizations, and Stories, Dick Raspa, Wayne State University
Syllabus
Senior Research and Writing Seminar in Jurisprudence, Marilyn R. Tayler, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey
Course Description, Pre-Reading Assignment, Research Hypothesis,
Research Model, Research Proposal, Literature Search I, Data Collection,
Literature Search II, Outline, Research Paper, Rubric
Natural Sciences:
Science and Culture, J. Linn Mackey, Appalachian State University
Syllabus
Natural Sciences/Social Sciences/Humanities:
Religion, Science, and the Quest for Meaning, Christopher Frost, Texas State University (now Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, San Diego State University)
Syllabus, Schedule, Article
Further submissions are invited for this site; see Invitation for Submissions, and Criteria for Selection.