Interdisciplinarity
Posted by susankmiller on October 16, 2007
Here’s what I love the most about teaching in an interdisciplinary program (Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media at NCSU): I’m continually confronted with my own assumptions about writing, texts, disciplinarity, and language. When we read something for my graduate class, I don’t always ask the same questions that my students ask (most of whom are in Communication). But they’ll raise questions that really get me thinking:
- Why do I question the notion of (sole) authorship?
- Why do I reject the idea of “correctness” in language?
- Why do I define “writing” in the way that I do?
- What is the nature of the relationship(s) between Communication and English, or between Rhetoric and Writing, or between Tech Comm and New Media Studies?
- And why don’t we have interdisciplinary conversations more often?
October 16th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Maybe we don’t have these conversations more often because it’s difficult to fund across disciplines…despite many grants requiring PIs from multiple disciplines…