Interdisciplinary Approach

Question

Interdisciplinary Approach Presentation

Every project must embrace more than one discipline in its composition. This is your chance to make explicit in the form of a presentation to the class how your final project derives from more than one area of academic study. Here you will also present how your educational background at in college has informed your work on this final project.

What is a Discipline: a branch of knowledge, typically one studied in higher education. Example: Sociology, etc.

Part I: To complete this assignment you may work with your group or individually and include the following information

1. Which areas of academic study your project relates to. Remember there should be more than one area included. Use the following to help you explain:  (Pyschology/ Human Service)
2. Discipline 1:

• What is your own connection to this discipline?
• What does the average person think this discipline is about?
• What topics are covered in classes in this area of study?
• What are the “big questions” in this field?
• What aspect of your project is most obviously connected to this discipline? my project is on mental health in adolscents (factors bullying, treatment, counseling.)
• What does an expert in this field know connects your project to this discipline?

1. Discipline 2

• What is your connection to this discipline?
• What is the layman’s view of this area?
• What topics does it cover?
• How do these topics connect to the topics of your first list?
• How are the “big questions” in this field related to those in the first discipline?
• How does your project connect to this field?
• How does your project connect this discipline to the first discipline?

2.. How your educational background (individual) or backgrounds (group) in college has informed your work on the final project. Remember if you are working in a group each group member must separately explain this part  looking at their individual education.

3. Format – this can take any format to present – video, recording, powerpoint, written.

i have provided work started on the capston thus far in the files section.