Building a Multidisciplinary Course Assignment
April 27, 2026
Facilitator: Stephanie Miller, professor of instruction, Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences
Faculty will explore the differences between multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to education and assignment design. Participants will develop partnerships within this FLC that support the development and implementation of an undergraduate cross-course assignment on Canvas.
A multidisciplinary project that can be shared across two courses in the same semester emphasizes student-led learning and provides students with an opportunity of learning through synthesis of knowledge from two or more academic fields, practice in problem solving, critical thinking and real-world collaboration skills.
Outcomes
- This FLC will provide a network of willing faculty collaborators who also want to develop a multidisciplinary assignment.
- Faculty can grow and expand their pedagocial expertise and learn how their course content connects to subject matter their studnets are learning in other courses.
- Developing a multidisciplinary assignment prodived an opportunity for enhanced learning for undergradaute students, but the complexity of implementing an assignment is challenging for faculty and this FLC could support.
- Share ideas and logistical assignment design plans for grading, using Canvas, and how to support students through adjusting to a multidisciplinary assigment approach.