Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Interdisciplinary Learning: Working Across Disciplines
This course supported learners to prepare for an interdisciplinary study, research or work project. They reflected on the impact of their own discipline on their language, methodologies and values. They considered the communication, teamwork and planning needed to get the most from their project.
2 weeks, 4 hours per week
Dr Scott McLaughlin
Lecturer in Composition and Music Technology
University of Leeds
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore how different disciplines have standardised focuses and methods for researching and solving problems.
- Compare the ways that different disciplines create and discover knowledge, and the type of knowledge they create.
- Evaluate the appropriateness and applicability of discipline-specific epistemologies to different needs and projects.
- Reflect on how your understanding of your own discipline changes when you compare it to the principles and methods of other disciplines.
Syllabus
- The definitions of interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary.
- The different ways that disciplines use and interpret key language and terminology.
- The different methodologies preferred by disciplines.
- The ways that disciplines create and value different types of knowledge.
- Key strategies for studying interdisciplinarily.
- Key strategies for working interdisciplinarily with others.
Issued on 19th August 2023
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