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    Becoming  Interdisciplinary: The Student Portfolio in the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Arizona State University
    (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2003) Schindler, Roslyn Abt; Henry, Stuart
    This paper serves as a case study on the use of student portfolios at a large undergraduate interdisciplinary program at Arizona State University. The paper addresses the follOwing question: How can student portfolios improve student learning, IDS teaching, and IDS curriculum assessment? The history of the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies (BIS) program, its features, its partnership with ASU Career Services, and the process of student portfolio implementation into its curriculum are reviewed in order to demonstrate how the BIS program student portfolio requirement has contributed to the program’s success as an undergraduate interdisciplinary studies degree program.
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    Starting with Worldviews: A Five-Step Preparatory Approach to Integrative Interdisciplinary Learning
    (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2013) Pauline Gagnon
    In this article we propose a five-step sequenced approach to integrative interdisciplinary learning in undergraduate gateway courses. Drawing from the literature of interdisciplinarity, transformative learning theory, and theories of reflective learning, we utilize a sequence of five steps early in our respective undergraduate gateway courses to foster preliminary lessons crucial for integrative interdisciplinary learning. Collectively, these steps help students recognize their own worldviews even as they will eventually understand tnad value the multiple disciplinary perspectives to be integrated in interdisciplinary work.  The five steps discussed in this article are initial community-building activities, a class viewing of a segment from The Muppet Show featuring Harry Belafonte, a combination of class and small group discussion, an intellectual autobiography assignment, and our respective adaptations of Smith Magazine’s Six-Word Memoirs.
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    Uncertain Paths for Interdisciplinary Programs and Their Faculties: Critical Stakes to Claim
    (Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2006) Navakas, Francine; Fiscella, Joan
    The following response to Henry (2005a) identifies other recent and current challenges to undergraduate interdisciplinary studies programs and their faculties. These challenges can include their administrative and physical locations within the University as well as certain trends associated with the market-driven corporate university, such as the devaluation of teaching faculty. Szostak's (2006) question, "Whither interdisciplinary studies?" is considered in light of current developments in the humanities, as evidenced by recent issues of the Modern Language Association's publication focusing on professional concerns, Profession. I conclude by suggesting that undergraduate IDS programs must establish their own spaces and territories as well as publish more widely-read, influential books about interdisciplinarity.