Contents
Introduction: Building Bridges in a Land of Colleges
Corey Campion
Part I: Teaching Across the Disciplines
Chapter 1: The Anxiety of Interdisciplinary Teaching
Aaron Angello
Chapter 2: Challenging the Discipline: First-Year Seminars and the Benefits of an Interdisciplinary Model
Paul D. Reich
Chapter 3: More Than Just Another Core Class: The Interdisciplinary Composition Course
Patricia Marchesi
Chapter 4: Breaking Boundaries: Reflections on an Interdisciplinary Course on Race and Graphic Narrative
Patrick L. Hamilton and Allan W. Austin
Chapter 5: Interdisciplinary Interactivity: Team-Teaching App Design at a Small College
Christine Dehne and Jonathan Munson
Chapter 6: Honeybees and the Transdisciplinary Classroom: Bridging the Gaps between History, Environmental Science and Global Studies
Corey Campion and April Boulton
Part II: Programming Across the Disciplines
Chapter 7: Learning, Leading, and Succeeding: Collaborative Culture and Experiential Interdisciplinary Studies at Nichols College
Erika Cornelius Smith and Maryann Conrad
Chapter 8: Why Can’t It Be Both?: Supporting Students Across the Spectrum of Abilities and Ambitions
Julia Klimek
Chapter 9: From Chemistry to History to Psychology: Creating a Multidisciplinary Minor in Investigative Forensics
Christine D. Myers and Audra L. Goach
Chapter 10: Creating a ‘Space of Appearance’ through the Rollins College Foundations in Liberal Arts (rFLA) Program
Hilary Cooperman
Chapter 11: Flipping the Humanities Back into Mathematics
Winston Ou
Chapter 12: Arts in the Laboratory: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Honors Education in a Small College Setting
Lana A. Whited and Sharon E. Stein
Part III: Exploring Across the Disciplines
Chapter 13: Science and Cultural Competence: Incorporating Hispanic Migrants’ Knowledge and Experience in the Spanish Curriculum
Martha BÁrcenas-Mooradian
Chapter 14: Authenticity and Empathy in Education: Team-Teaching “The Voices Project: Mental Health”
Amanda M. Caleb and Alicia H. Nordstrom
Chapter 15: Experiential Learning in the Rural, Small College Setting: Creating an “Appalachian Cluster”
Tina L. Hanlon, Peter Crow, Susan V. Mead, Carolyn L. Thomas, and Delia R. Heck
Chapter 16: “Hold my PiÑa Colada: Operational and Ethical Considerations for Interdisciplinary Experiential Learning Study Abroad”
Paola Prado and Autumn Quezada-Grant
Notes on Contributors
Index
