Comment on Interdisciplinarity can be scary for doctoral students by Sarah

Nice article! I think that this is a very important point to discuss. However, many times it feels like the best work is interdisciplinary. I think this is for many reasons. Many times, students need to research and read a bunch of literature in other fields, based on some clues they received from an expert they’re collaborating with. So the other department’s expert gives them a capsule overview, and they can follow up with literature searches, and more questions. I believe this would be super fruitful, if pursued with serious desire for a successful outcome. Sometimes, different engineerings, as an example, think differently. I realized this in a multi-disciplinary course, that required students to be from other majors in each student group… This was a very fruitful course, least said!

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