Readings: Module One / Section One
Article: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Intellectual Fusion
This article contextualized the notion if intellectual fusion within the landscape of your undergraduate education, and introduces you to the “mosaic” analogy for interdisciplinary learning. You’ll also learn how disciplines provide unique insights into individual topics of interest.
Article: Introductory Narrative and the Future of Society and Innovation
This article will help “set the stage” for the journey you are about to embark upon.
Article: Intellectual Fusion (Kelly, Lance, and Reinfurt, 2008)
This article provides a concise introduction to the idea of intellectual fusion, especially as related to the idea of interdisciplinary collaboration.
Article: How Successful Leaders Think
This HBR article looks at intellectual fusion in a different light – by considering the value of integrative insights of the intrapersonal sense – integrative thinking.
Article: Charlie Munger - In Praise of Multidisciplinary Thinking
This article provides some introductory insight into the power of thinking across disciplinary boundaries – an integrative thinking approach embraced by Charlie Munger (one of the most successful investors / investment analysts of all time). The article also reviews a couple of additional resources / books worth adding to your library if you are intrigued by these ideas! It should be noted that what Charlie Munger refers to here as “multidisciplinary thinking” is actually what we will come to know in this course as “interdisciplinary thinking” or “integrative thinking.”
Article: It’s Time to End College Majors as We Know Them
By Jeffrey J. Selingo, May 20, 2018, Chronicle of Higher Education
Article: What 'Learning How to Think' Really Means
By Barry Schwartz, The Chronicle of Higher Education / The Chronicle Review (Selected Exerts)
Readings: Module One / Section Two
Article: Module One Section Two Introductory Narrative
Start here. This is a brief summary of the content associated with Module One / Section Two.
Article: Disciplinary Epistemologies
This narrative discusses the nature of disciplinary epistemologies, and the challenges associated with “seeing across” disciplinary boundaries.
Article: (Excerpt) Unity in Diversity: The Virtues of a Metadisciplinary Perspective
Excerpts from Unity in Diversity article.pdf
Selected content from this article discuss the importance of an integrated (a “metadisciplinary” curriculum. It’s written from an educator’s point of view, and while you may not experience a true metadisciplinary curriculum throughout your time at the university, here in this course I hope you will develop the skills that will allow you to intentionally and decisively take control of your education, thus fusing your own metadisciplinary perspectives (here in college, and well beyond).
Article: Trends in the Contemporary Workplace
This article discusses how the organizational landscape has been changing over the last decade of the 20th Century into the first couple of decades of the 21st Century. The importance of developing transferable skills needed to function well in the contemporary workplace is also discussed.
Article: The Interdisciplinary Needs of Organizations
IDS Needs of Orgs.pdf
This article further hones in on how the needs of organizations are changing, and what that means to college students.
Article: (Excerpt) Building Bridges Across Disciplines: Organizational and Individual Qualities of Exemplary Interdisciplinary Work
Drawing on observations from cutting-edge integrative research initiatives, two models for integration and the personal characteristics needed for deep interdisciplinary work are explicated. Notice connections between what you read here and other course content you have discovered thus far.
Article: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Intellectual Fusion
This article contextualized the notion if intellectual fusion within the landscape of your undergraduate education, and introduces you to the “mosaic” analogy for interdisciplinary learning. You’ll also learn how disciplines provide unique insights into individual topics of interest.
Article: Introductory Narrative and the Future of Society and Innovation
This article will help “set the stage” for the journey you are about to embark upon.
Article: Intellectual Fusion (Kelly, Lance, and Reinfurt, 2008)
This article provides a concise introduction to the idea of intellectual fusion, especially as related to the idea of interdisciplinary collaboration.
Article: How Successful Leaders Think
This HBR article looks at intellectual fusion in a different light – by considering the value of integrative insights of the intrapersonal sense – integrative thinking.
Article: Charlie Munger - In Praise of Multidisciplinary Thinking
This article provides some introductory insight into the power of thinking across disciplinary boundaries – an integrative thinking approach embraced by Charlie Munger (one of the most successful investors / investment analysts of all time). The article also reviews a couple of additional resources / books worth adding to your library if you are intrigued by these ideas! It should be noted that what Charlie Munger refers to here as “multidisciplinary thinking” is actually what we will come to know in this course as “interdisciplinary thinking” or “integrative thinking.”
Article: It’s Time to End College Majors as We Know Them
By Jeffrey J. Selingo, May 20, 2018, Chronicle of Higher Education
Article: What 'Learning How to Think' Really Means
By Barry Schwartz, The Chronicle of Higher Education / The Chronicle Review (Selected Exerts)
Readings: Module One / Section Two
Article: Module One Section Two Introductory Narrative
Start here. This is a brief summary of the content associated with Module One / Section Two.
Article: Disciplinary Epistemologies
This narrative discusses the nature of disciplinary epistemologies, and the challenges associated with “seeing across” disciplinary boundaries.
Article: (Excerpt) Unity in Diversity: The Virtues of a Metadisciplinary Perspective
Excerpts from Unity in Diversity article.pdf
Selected content from this article discuss the importance of an integrated (a “metadisciplinary” curriculum. It’s written from an educator’s point of view, and while you may not experience a true metadisciplinary curriculum throughout your time at the university, here in this course I hope you will develop the skills that will allow you to intentionally and decisively take control of your education, thus fusing your own metadisciplinary perspectives (here in college, and well beyond).
Article: Trends in the Contemporary Workplace
This article discusses how the organizational landscape has been changing over the last decade of the 20th Century into the first couple of decades of the 21st Century. The importance of developing transferable skills needed to function well in the contemporary workplace is also discussed.
Article: The Interdisciplinary Needs of Organizations
IDS Needs of Orgs.pdf
This article further hones in on how the needs of organizations are changing, and what that means to college students.
Article: (Excerpt) Building Bridges Across Disciplines: Organizational and Individual Qualities of Exemplary Interdisciplinary Work
Drawing on observations from cutting-edge integrative research initiatives, two models for integration and the personal characteristics needed for deep interdisciplinary work are explicated. Notice connections between what you read here and other course content you have discovered thus far.
