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Teaching in Higher Ed

Multidisciplinary Teaching

Dec 23, 2020
40:45

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

One of the real benefits to interdisciplinary teaching is this exposure to different perspectives.

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

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