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Bridging Specializations: Reflections from Biology and Political Science
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 10, Number 1, Fall 1986
- pp. 29-45
- 10.1353/rhe.1986.0010
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Critics of college faculty frequently accuse professors of being too specialized. Other critics worry about the fragmentation of disciplines into isolated subfields. This study, examining biology and political science to identify links among the subfields in each discipline, was based primarily on interviews with college faculty and reviews of current literature. The findings suggest that there are, in fact, systematic links and that specialization is more benign than its image.