Teaching Interdisciplinary Sciences in a Liberal Arts College
ABSTRACT This paper presents a critical self‐assessment of an interdisciplinary educational programme initially supported by the Henry Luce Foundation. The author has been serving as a Henry Luce Professor of Complex Systems Studies at Kalamazoo College since 2002. The paper reviews the whys and hows of interdisciplinary teaching related to classes derived intellectually from systems sciences and cybernetics. The Reader will learn that the programme has been a mix of successes and failures.
Authors
- Péter Érdi
Institutions
- HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics (HU)
- Kalamazoo College (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Systems Research and Behavioral Science
- Published
- 2025-12-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.70003
- Primary Topic
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00