The Politics of Interdisciplinary Studies: Essays on Transformations in American
Publisher:   McFarland | ISBN: 0786441682 | edition 2009 | PDF | 288 pages | 9,8 mb  



This collection of essays first highlights the popularity ofinterdisciplinary undergraduate studies and their recent gains in theworld of higher education, and then addresses the paradoxical failureof these studies to achieve a permanent position in the curricula ofindividual universities and colleges. This question and its attendantissues are explored in three ways: an overview of how these changes areaffected by the political economy, casestudies from actual universitiesand colleges, and, a discussion of the new ways undergraduates areeducated through the use of interdisciplinary studies.