Interdisciplinary course focuses on global changes, European north

Interdisciplinary Course for Biology Students

Modern biological sciences require practitioners to have increasing levels of knowledge, competence, and skills in mathematics and programming. A recent review of the science curriculum at the University of Queensland, a large, research-intensive institution in Australia, resulted in the development of a more quantitatively rigorous undergraduate program. Inspired by the National Research Counc...

Attention focuses on autism.

Pilot Implementation of an Interdisciplinary Course on Climate Solutions*

A pilot implementation of an experimental interdisciplinary course on climate solutions was undertaken at San José State University in the fall semester of 2008. The course, co-taught by seven faculty members from six colleges, was approved for a general education requirement and was open to upperclass students campus-wide. A course with such a breadth of topics and range of student backgrounds...

Human error and patient safety: interdisciplinary course.

BACKGROUND The medical community has only recently begun to address how human error affects patient safety. In order to confront human error in medicine, there is a need to teach students who are entering the health professions how potential errors may manifest and train them to prevent or mitigate these problems. PURPOSE The objective is to describe a semester-long, interdisciplinary, human ...

Hardware/Software Codesign - introducing an interdisciplinary course

In 1997 we introduced a new fourth year/graduate course in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Victoria entitled “VLSI Design, CAD and Hardware/Software Codesign” under the rubric of “Special Topics”, where generic topics courses are the normal way that professors here inaugurate courses based on recent development in our research. The course was subscribed by students from ...