QUESTIONS TO GUIDE INTERDISCIPLINARY COURSE PREPARATION
Is the course issue-based (societal problem, historical moment, text, geographical region, or key concept)?
What question about the issue is the course designed to explore?
What makes the question appropriate to ID inquiry?
Is the issue focused (few enough sub-issues for students to understand perspectives on the issue and develop facility with concepts, theories, and methods introduced)?
Are the perspectives of disciplines/schools of thought explicit? Are respective contributions to the issue explicit?
How dominant is one discipline? Do less-dominant disciplines provide more than subject matter?
Is the level of the course consistent with depth of disciplinary perspectives, explicitness of assumptions, sophistication of disciplinary tools, explicitness about ID methodology, balance of breadth and depth?
