IDS 312 Critical Methods of Interdisciplinary Study
In this course, we will focus on a number of central questions: Why do we organize knowledge into separate disciplines? How have these disciplines been determined? How flexible are the boundaries between disciplines? What’s the relationship between the content and the methodology of a particular discipline? What happens to both content and methodology as we begin crossing the boundaries between disciplines? How does a shift towards interdisciplinarity change how we organize knowledge, how we define knowledge, and how we produce knowledge? We will approach these questions through an engagement with contemporary thinkers who discuss and debate these issues and by engaging in our own interdisciplinary analysis, research, and writing.