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The Interdisciplinary Fit

How Duke makes interdisciplinary studies work in a disciplinary world

Fitting Interdisciplinary Classes into the Curriculum

Students are engaged by team-taught classes, but making them happen takes work

Two professors. Two disciplines. It sounds simple enough to put them together to create...

Making two disciplines work in a single class requires skill and effort

For more than two years, Scott Huettel, professor of psychology and neuroscience pondered...

Interdisciplinary classes can come at some cost to departments

Duke has embraced interdisciplinary classes as a way for both students and faculty to...

Faculty and administrators look to add flexibility to the system

As long as faculty members come up with courses that promote inquiry across disciplines,...