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It's Alive! The Life Span of an Interdisciplinary Course in the Humanities
- The Journal of General Education
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 57, Number 4, 2008
- pp. 223-243
- 10.1353/jge.0.0028
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After describing our interdisciplinary humanities course and its history, we identify challenges these courses face and strategies for keeping them vigorous. We argue that course longevity depends on eff ective translation of vision and content into explicit goals bridging the gaps between faculty members and between faculty and students.