Paul Waldau, PhD, presented at last week’s College of Arts and Sciences Colloquium on “The Interdisciplinary Question—A Communion of Subjects or Tower of Babel?” His abstract states: To raise questions about the potential and risks of interdisciplinary approaches to education and scholarship, as well as a number of vices and virtues encountered along interdisciplinary paths, I address challenges that are hard to avoid when teaching university-level courses to undergraduate, graduate or profession-level students. To illustrate features of various complex challenges, I draw upon a range of subjects in the humanities (ethics, comparative religion, and history), social sciences (education, law, economics), and natural sciences (both biological and environmental).
If you missed Paul’s presentation due to conflicting schedules and would like to watch it in its entirety, please access the video recording here.
Submitted by: Veronica Serwacki, executive associate, college of arts and sciences
