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Wingert, Jason R.; Wasileski, Sally A.; Peterson, Karin; Mathews, Leah Greden; Lanou, Amy Joy; Clarke, David – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2011
This article offers food for thought on a strategy used by seven faculty to enhance students' integrative learning by offering cross-course, cross-disciplinary projects and shared activities focused on food. The faculty teach a cluster of ten courses in natural sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities that address food themes.…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Sciences, Health Education
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Hill, Trevor R.; Traynor, Catherine H.; Birch-Thomsen, Torben; De Neergaard, Andreas; Bob, Urmilla; Manyatsi, Absalom M.; Sebego, Reuben J. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2008
This paper explores an approach to problem-oriented, interdisciplinary field-based courses devised by university consortia in southern Africa and Denmark. The SLUSE (Sustainable Land Use and Natural Resource Management) model has been applied on six three-week field courses within southern Africa and trained over 200 students. Student groups…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Land Use, Interdisciplinary Approach, Rural Areas
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Leydesdorff, Loet; de Klerk, Rob – International Journal of Science Education, 1998
Reports on the background philosophy, theoretical course structure, and the changing patterns of student choices evident in a course at the interface between natural science and social sciences. Based on observations of the first trimester. (DDR)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Educational Philosophy