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Being Interdisciplinary: Intentions and Tensions.

Wednesday, November 16.

Mary Titus, Director, Center for Integrative Studies; Jean Porterfield, Biology.

Interdisciplinary initiatives seem to be everywhere in higher education, but there is no consensus on how to do interdisciplinary work. Do we leave our disciplinary training behind to create a separate and distinct interdisciplinary alternative? Or is our interdisciplinary work a sequential presentation of disciplinary approaches with a modest amount of cross-disciplinary exchange? In this session, Mary Titus will begin the conversation by talking about her work as director of the Center for Integrative Studies and her new integrative seminar on the Vietnam War. Jean Porterfield, a biologist, will discuss the seminar, "Ways of Knowing Ecology" that she is currently team teaching with Mark Allister from the English department.