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An International Learning Community: Cultural Studies and Study Abroad in an Integrated Studies Program
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2005)
This paper describes the inclusion of a cultural studies/language component and a study abroad experience into the University of North Dakota's successful and long-established Integrated Studies Program. These international ...
Disciplinary Hegemony Meets Interdisciplinary Ascendancy: Can Interdisciplinary/Integrative Studies Survive, and, If So, How?
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2005)
This paper explores the increasing challenges and possible solutions to the sustainability of undergraduate interdisciplinary studies programs at public universities in North America. It analyzes the causes of the current ...
Building a Culture of Learning in the 21st Century: Confronting Some Assumptions Preventing Us from Realizing the Promise of the Learning Paradigm
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2005)
In the past 20 years some educators have given greater attention to a broadened conception of learning that highlights processes and a diversity of learning modalities. But higher education has yet to broadly embrace the ...
Textual Revision, Stalinist Revisionism, and the Obligations of Memory: Situating Anna Akhmatova's Poem Without a Hero
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2005)
Textual revision is the process a poet uses to bring a work's aesthetic aspirations closer to realization. Historical revision is the process by which historians bring narratives of the past into closer alignment with a ...
Making Interdisciplinarity Work Through Translation and Analogical Thinking
(Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2005)
Analogies are often employed in a variety of contexts as a means of translating across disciplines or perspectives. Such translation fails when it is thought of merely as transversal exchange, focusing on similarity within ...