Susan Roll and Jennifer Wilking share their experience teaching a multidisipilnary course together on episode 341 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It was really fascinating to see how students across these three disciplines had different orientations from day one to this issue of homelessness.
-Jennifer Wilking
One of the real benefits to interdisciplinary teaching is the exposure to different perspectives.
-Jennifer Wilking
Students have such a deeper understanding when they’re actually doing the research rather than just hearing about research methods.
-Jennifer Wilking
Once they have an experience and actually talk to a person who is experiencing homelessness, all of those preconceptions start to drop away; and that’s the beauty of doing research too.
-Jennifer Wilking