ABSTRACT
Curriculum organization can take a variety of shapes that combine skill development with content expertise. Literary studies, due to its flexibility, can provide an overarching narrative for all education and scholarship by focusing on language, composition, and storytelling. Interdiscipline has covered cognitive science, ecology, quantum physics, and digital technology. The interdisciplinary centers would first teach general education courses, and then gradually reorganize parts of the major curricula to make them as interdisciplinary as possible. The reason to preserve the integrity of disciplines is to provide continuity between old and new models and to benefit from what disciplines do well, namely, monitor boundaries, define methodologies, and defend the integrity of scholarship. The process of interdisciplinarization can start in the humanities by redesigning existing courses to include other disciplinary perspectives. The Western system of periodization, the dominant model of literary studies even after the culture wars, is not generalizable.
