CROSS-DISCIPLINARY

courses are courses in which one disciplinary perspective dominates the other(s), like chocolate chip ice cream, where the dominant flavor is vanilla but with flavorful little chunks sprinkled throughout.  While courses can be intentionally designed to be cross-disciplinary, cross-disciplinarity can also be an accidental result if the class is taught by one person, or if one discipline’s “way of knowing” is the focus with nuggets of a second (or third or fourth) discipline’s content scattered across the material