ABSTRACT
One of the oddest combinations of disciplines came from a student who wanted to bring together pediatrics, child development theory, and theater to create skits and magic acts to help terminally ill children displace pain. Studies on undergraduate cognitive development suggest that the majority of traditional college seniors hold either “transitional” assumptions of knowing in which they believe knowledge can be separated into certain and uncertain categories or “independent” assumptions in which they perceive knowledge as being open to many interpretations and thus uncertain. Junior-year interdisciplinary core courses in program deepen the implementation of the Learning Partnerships Model by focusing pointedly on interdisciplinary theory and research method. Although the interdisciplinary writing curriculum developed at Miami’s School of Interdisciplinary Studies affords a unique and powerful venue for propelling the Learning Partnerships Model, it is a means of implementing writing curricula in other settings.
