Interdisciplinary Studies Today

This volume of New Directions for Teaching and Learning is a practical compendium of advice and information on the development, administration, and assessment of interdisciplinary studies programs and schools. A bibliographic orientation to hands-on access, including electronic retrieval of information, precedes chapters reviewing the design of interdisciplinary courses, and how the role of administrators in interdisciplinary programs can further institutitonal goals. The final chapter looks beyond the local campus to national and international support networks. The contributors, who share their extensive experience in the teaching and administration of interdisciplinary studies, provide many examples of good (and bad) praxis. This is the 58th issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Teaching and Learning.

JULIE THOMPSON KLEIN is professor of humanities in the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Wayne State University. A former editor of the journal Issues in Integrative Studies and former president of the Association for Integrative Studies, she has published widely on interdisciplinary research and studies. WILLIAM G. DOTY is professor of humanities in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, where he has taught in the interdisciplinary New College. Former national coordinator of the American Academy of Religion's annual competition for the best publication in the field, he has published extensively on myth and ritual, men's studies, classics, and religious studies. He is a regular writer for Art Papers (Atlanta).