Social transformation models of internationalization suggest the need for radical reform to curricula to foster engaged global citizenship, yet little is written depicting how individual courses and their instructors might support such reform. This article stems from and explores philosophical, pedagogical, institutional, and curricular issues…

This paper advances the notion that global leadership is a necessary component of undergraduate agricultural leadership. Within an existing leadership curriculum, the development of at least three new courses with innovative approaches to such a globalized curriculum is justified and outlined. These three classes include a course designed to…

Author investigates an educational proposal combining personal creativity training with a truly interdisciplinary curriculum that would give both an experiential and a content awareness of wholeness. (Author/RK)

Reports the findings of a study of knowledge management courses included in the curriculum of academic disciplines of business, computing, and information based on a review of course descriptions from Web sites of universities in different countries. Describes level of courses, curriculum areas and topics, and the multidisciplinary nature of the…

A four-quarter sequence of courses to assess environmental impact, to provide students with knowledge of environmental law, a strong interdisciplinary base, and an understanding of the processes of planning and policy formation, is described. (BT)

Describes the course content of an interdisciplinary core course for science majors at Portland State University. This is a two-year sequence encompassing material from physics, chemistry, and biology, and is designed to prepare students to undertake an advanced undergraduate program in any of these fields. The syllabus and special features of the…

Discusses a course in the literature of technology, team-taught by the English and engineering departments, which emphasizes the "two-culture" phenomenon (science vs. the arts). (MLH)

The article describes a two-year, interdisciplinary humanities core requirement, "Portraits of Human Greatness." Established in 1977-78 at St. Anselm College (New Hampshire), this course requires freshmen and sophomores to study groups or individuals in Western Civilization in a lecture/seminar format with extensive reading and writing…

After critically analyzing the mathematics education of engineering students, the author proposes a new approach which meets some of his objections to current practices. The article is to be continued in a later issue. (SD)

Presents the methodology and evaluation of a course prepared by an interdisciplinary team of faculty members and aimed at developing an awareness, in engineering students, of the need for an interdisciplinary approach to societal problems. (MLH)

The course was designed: (1) to broaden the base for chemistry majors to build their courses; (2) to illustrate how some chemistry principles are applied to real situations; and (3) to serve as an introduction to geochemistry for geology majors. (DF)

Describes a course for inservice teacher education involving a transdisciplinary approach to environmental studies. (SH)

Discusses a two-semester college course focusing on the idea that developments in the sciences and the arts together reveal a constant process of mutual influence and cross-fertilization. The course develops this thesis using examples from physics, art, literature, and philosophy from Greek times to the present day. (Author/MLH)

This program is designed to involve students in the economy of their community. It combines an interdisciplinary educational program with practical field and laboratory experience. This program provides opportunities in the area of aquaculture, controlled cultivation of marketable species and the total ecological corrections necessary to maintain…