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- Title
Mapping the landscape of a wide interdisciplinary curriculum: a network analysis of a Korean university and the lessons learnt.
- Authors
Hokyoung Ryu; Jieun Kim
- Abstract
Interdisciplinary programmes have become common in universities and research groups' curricula. This study conducted a network analysis on a Korean university's undergraduate curriculum and used several visualisation tools to assess keywords across courses and departments, revealing epistemological distances between the courses/departments and their concepts of study. This data-driven methodology defined the characteristics of close or neighbouring departments, making it possible to implement narrow interdisciplinarity through common subjects within the courses. Interestingly, a further projected network could determine the implicit relations between departments that are not considered close, which would make it possible to implement a wide interdisciplinary curriculum. The datadriven network analysis conducted in this study contributes to searching for new programmes for specific levels of interdisciplinarity on an empirical basis.
- Subjects
INTERDISCIPLINARY education; LANDSCAPES; RESEARCH teams; VISUALIZATION
- Publication
Design Science, 2022, Vol 8, p1
- ISSN
2053-4701
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/dsj.2022.1