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Katie Johnson; Allison Dieppa; Jason Elek – PRIMUS, 2024
This article describes the outcomes of a faculty partnership between a math professor and a composition professor to improve the final paper in a research-focused senior capstone math course. Much attention has been paid in recent years to the importance of undergraduate research experiences and how to best create and support such endeavors.…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Partnerships in Education, College Faculty, Writing (Composition)
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Frederick Berry; Wanju Huang; Marisa Exter – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2024
This paper outlines the continuous improvement enhancements of a two-semester multidisciplinary capstone program tailored for senior students within the School of Engineering Technology. These courses revolve around collaborative teamwork and focus on the development of innovative solutions for industry-sponsored projects. The overarching goal of…
Descriptors: Capstone Experiences, Intervention, Communication Skills, Teamwork
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Elspeth Tilley – Research in Drama Education, 2024
This article advances transdisciplinarity as a potentially useful applied theatre theory and method. It maps the ways transdisciplinary research principles informed and framed an applied theatre project and suggests that making applied theatre explicit rather than implicit as a transdisciplinary research process may help practitioners…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Foreign Countries, Research Methodology, Theater Arts
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William Bosshardt – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
In the early 1940s, Black artist Jacob Lawrence painted a series of 60 panels that are now collectively called "The Migration Series." The panels tell the story of how Black Americans migrated from the South to the North, beginning with World War I. The panels provide an uncommon example of the intersection of economics, Black American…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Art, Diversity, African Americans
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Lorry-Ann Austin; Alana Hoare; Kimberley Thomas-Francois; Thomas Pypker; Le Anh Nguyen Cao – Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning, 2024
The primary aim of institutional learning outcomes assessment is the creation of a culture of assessment where faculty use evidence-based data to validate and improve teaching and learning for the benefit of students. Faculty are key to these processes and yet, they are often woefully disengaged from them. This paper presents findings from an…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice
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Alice S. N. Kim; Danielle Robinson; Celia Popovic; Alecia Carolli; Brad Jennings; Franz Newland – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
In this study we explored the experiences of students who completed a project-based, interdisciplinary capstone course that was offered at a large university in Southern Ontario, Canada. To do so, we interviewed students after they completed the course, adopting a constructivist perspective and a phenomenological approach. Interview transcripts…
Descriptors: Capstone Experiences, Active Learning, Student Projects, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Karen Lange – PRIMUS, 2024
This article describes a major capstone course centered on public writing, whose underlying pedagogical principles are transferable to courses across the curriculum. The course aims to strengthen students' mathematical agency and their ability to effectively communicate mathematical ideas. In its unique format, students repeatedly take turns…
Descriptors: Capstone Experiences, Active Learning, Education Work Relationship, Interdisciplinary Approach