As important as it is for there to be highly specialized scholars in every discipline, it’s just as important to have interdisciplinary students building bridges between ideas, creating cohesive, universal collaboration

We know from many of history’s examples that when particular disciplines rule over a single issue, myriad unforeseen consequences may result.

I will be able to belong to my own discipline community of art therapy and be a member of the American Art Therapy Association while also being a part of the art and psychology social communities on their own.

Charles Eliot (21st president of Harvard) gave a speech stating that there is no best method or focus for learning, therefore Harvard will have them all.

In such cases, those who stop at the disciplinary edge run the risk of tunnel vision. Besides these obvious intellectual costs (cf. Saxe, 1945), narrow disciplinarity is frequently accompanied by a social cost.

Many say that colleges around the world are simply watering holes filled with creativity, and talent so why not start with higher education to incorporate the interdisciplinary knowledge one will need to be successful within life!

majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies has given me the confidence to create something of my own that may not be out there yet.

the negative consequences of a specialized education are becoming more apparent, demonstrating that graduates need more than one kind of skill if they want to compete in today’s job market.

content, methods, and epistemologies are the central building blocks of disciplines, and it is helpful to understand these as you get started in Interdisciplinary Studies.

we have to set the numbers into context, asking how many crimes per capita (or per person) each location has.

Interdisciplinary studies is “a process of answering a question, solving a problem, or addressing a topic that is too broad or complex to be dealt with adequately by a single discipline or profession,” and it “draws on disciplinary perspectives and integrates their insights through construction of a more comprehensive perspective” (Klein and Newell, 1998, 3).

Crossdisciplinary Oversights: Scholars from a different field can often catch errors and flawed thinking that scholars in another field miss because they are not connected to the right information or concepts

I could create a WordPress blog from scratch. I could play with HTML, CSS, and Javascript and create experimental projects for courses. I could even keep the domain after graduation. It is a living portfolio, my representation in the digital world.

For instance, public assignments tap into fears of public embarrassment

Students have little agency when it comes to education technology – much like they have little agency in education itself.

Schools routinely caution students about the things they post on social media