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?