Any given academic discipline appeals to and utilizes more than one mode of knowledge; most subject matter disciplines are "interdisciplinary." To be truly educated is to have learned which intellectual difficulties to take as challenges and which to put in their place as matters of personalities or fads. (MLW)

This course, one of 16 sequential courses comprising phase one of a part-time Bachelor of Arts degree program in Australian Studies, deals with the ways in which knowledge is historically classified into distinct fields. The example used is the 19th century demarcation between science and psuedo-science. The course is designed for independent…