Becoming Interdisciplinary: An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies
Edition: 4
Copyright: 2025
Pages: 304
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Becoming Interdisciplinary introduces students to interdisciplinary studies and is useful for students seeking a better understanding both of interdisciplinary studies and of themselves. Theoretically informed, it is primarily written for undergraduates in an extremely readable style. First-year graduate students interested in pursuing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research will also find it helpful. Now available, the purpose of the revised and expanded third edition of Becoming Interdisciplinary is to introduce students to the foundations of interdisciplinary studies so that they can better understand both interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity as well as improve how they communicate what they are to others.
Students will begin to learn how to answer the following questions:
- What are interdisciplinary studies?
- What are the ways students can communicate effectively their interdisciplinary, integrative or transdisciplinary programs of study?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of pursuing an interdisciplinary education?
- How can interdisciplinary studies help students better attain their professional goals?
Special Features of this book include all of the following:
- Definitions of key terms by leading scholars of interdisciplinary studies
- A toolkit for communicating one’s interdisciplinary program of study
- A background history of how interdisciplinary studies programs emerged
- A discussion of leading advantages and disadvantages of interdisciplinary studies
- A brief overview of leading and emergent currents of transdisciplinarity
- Numerous experiential learning class activities, such as a metaphor top-ten list and a class “trial” on interdisciplinary studies, and the following major assignments: intellectual autobiography, autobiographical maps, disciplinary research, research on disciplinary practitioners, reflection exercises, and student portfolios
- Readings in interdisciplinary studies selected to increase understanding
- Discussion questions for most readings designed to help students pick out main points of reading
- Inclusion of actual student work as examples for class activities and assignments
Part 1: Understanding Interdisciplinary Studies
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: What is Interdisciplinary Studies? Some Essential Definitions
Chapter 3: Metaphors for Interdisciplinary Studies
Chapter 4: Taxonomy of Interdisciplinary Studies
Chapter 5: History of interdisciplinary Studies
Chapter 6: Skills and “Characteristics” of Interdisciplinarians
Part 2: Toolkit for Communicating Interdisciplinary Studies
Chapter 7: Debating Interdisciplinary Studies
Chapter 8: Identifying Your Personal, Academic and Professional Interests and Goals
Chapter 9: Linking Personal Worldviews to Disciplinary Perspectives.
Chapter 10: Describing Your Interdisciplinary Degree
Chapter 11: Telling Your Story as an Interdisciplinarian
Chapter 12: Creating and Presenting Portfolios
Chapter 13: Reflecting with Electronic Portfolios
Tanya Augsburg is a humanities-trained, interdisciplinary feminist performance scholar, educator, arts writer, and curator who can be occasionally persuaded to perform. She teaches at San Francisco State University, where she is Professor in the School of Liberal Studies in the areas of the Creative Arts and Humanities.
Dr. Augsburg is additionally the Associate Editor of Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies and also serves as an ex officio executive board member of the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies. Since February 2022 Dr. Augsburg has been a member of the College Art Association's Committee for Women in the Arts (CWA). She was the Chair of CWA Picks in 2024. In 2025 she was selected to be the Chair of the College Art Association's Committee for Women in the Arts. She will be serving as the CWA Chair until her term ends in 2027.
Dr. Augsburg is author of Becoming Interdisciplinary: An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies, 4th Ed. (Kendall/Hunt, 2025) and co-editor of The Politics of Interdisciplinary Studies (McFarland, 2009). Other publications have appeared in TDR: The Drama Review; Text and Performance Quarterly; Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies; n.paradoxa: International Feminist Art Journal; World Futures; The Colorado Critical Review; Woman's Art Journal, and Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture. She is a contributing arts writer for the online arts magazine The Art Section. She was the juror and a co-curator of Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze, a large travelling feminist art exhibition sponsored by the Women’s Caucus of Art that showed at SOMARTs in San Francisco and the Kinsey Institute Gallery at Indiana University. She was also editor of the accompanying catalogue. She was Curator of Featured Artists and member of the Executive Exhibition Committee of Northern California Women's Caucus for Art (NCWCA)'s 2016 national exhibition, F*ck U! In the Most Loving Way, which was held at Arc Gallery in San Francisco. She was the lead curator and member of the NCWCA Curatorial Collective for F213, NCWCA's 2019 intersectional feminist protest art exhibition, which was held at Arc Gallery in San Francisco.
Dr. Augsburg is frequently invited to give public lectures on interdisciplinarity and contemporary feminist art and performance. She has also served internationally as a reviewer and consultant for interdisciplinary programs, initiatives, and grants. In 2023, Dr. Augsburg was selected to participate in and present at the CSU International Program faculty workshop in Tokyo, Japan.
Fourth Edition Coming Soon!
Becoming Interdisciplinary introduces students to interdisciplinary studies and is useful for students seeking a better understanding both of interdisciplinary studies and of themselves. Theoretically informed, it is primarily written for undergraduates in an extremely readable style. First-year graduate students interested in pursuing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research will also find it helpful. Now available, the purpose of the revised and expanded third edition of Becoming Interdisciplinary is to introduce students to the foundations of interdisciplinary studies so that they can better understand both interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity as well as improve how they communicate what they are to others.
Students will begin to learn how to answer the following questions:
- What are interdisciplinary studies?
- What are the ways students can communicate effectively their interdisciplinary, integrative or transdisciplinary programs of study?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of pursuing an interdisciplinary education?
- How can interdisciplinary studies help students better attain their professional goals?
Special Features of this book include all of the following:
- Definitions of key terms by leading scholars of interdisciplinary studies
- A toolkit for communicating one’s interdisciplinary program of study
- A background history of how interdisciplinary studies programs emerged
- A discussion of leading advantages and disadvantages of interdisciplinary studies
- A brief overview of leading and emergent currents of transdisciplinarity
- Numerous experiential learning class activities, such as a metaphor top-ten list and a class “trial” on interdisciplinary studies, and the following major assignments: intellectual autobiography, autobiographical maps, disciplinary research, research on disciplinary practitioners, reflection exercises, and student portfolios
- Readings in interdisciplinary studies selected to increase understanding
- Discussion questions for most readings designed to help students pick out main points of reading
- Inclusion of actual student work as examples for class activities and assignments
Part 1: Understanding Interdisciplinary Studies
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: What is Interdisciplinary Studies? Some Essential Definitions
Chapter 3: Metaphors for Interdisciplinary Studies
Chapter 4: Taxonomy of Interdisciplinary Studies
Chapter 5: History of interdisciplinary Studies
Chapter 6: Skills and “Characteristics” of Interdisciplinarians
Part 2: Toolkit for Communicating Interdisciplinary Studies
Chapter 7: Debating Interdisciplinary Studies
Chapter 8: Identifying Your Personal, Academic and Professional Interests and Goals
Chapter 9: Linking Personal Worldviews to Disciplinary Perspectives.
Chapter 10: Describing Your Interdisciplinary Degree
Chapter 11: Telling Your Story as an Interdisciplinarian
Chapter 12: Creating and Presenting Portfolios
Chapter 13: Reflecting with Electronic Portfolios
Tanya Augsburg is a humanities-trained, interdisciplinary feminist performance scholar, educator, arts writer, and curator who can be occasionally persuaded to perform. She teaches at San Francisco State University, where she is Professor in the School of Liberal Studies in the areas of the Creative Arts and Humanities.
Dr. Augsburg is additionally the Associate Editor of Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies and also serves as an ex officio executive board member of the Association for Interdisciplinary Studies. Since February 2022 Dr. Augsburg has been a member of the College Art Association's Committee for Women in the Arts (CWA). She was the Chair of CWA Picks in 2024. In 2025 she was selected to be the Chair of the College Art Association's Committee for Women in the Arts. She will be serving as the CWA Chair until her term ends in 2027.
Dr. Augsburg is author of Becoming Interdisciplinary: An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies, 4th Ed. (Kendall/Hunt, 2025) and co-editor of The Politics of Interdisciplinary Studies (McFarland, 2009). Other publications have appeared in TDR: The Drama Review; Text and Performance Quarterly; Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies; n.paradoxa: International Feminist Art Journal; World Futures; The Colorado Critical Review; Woman's Art Journal, and Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture. She is a contributing arts writer for the online arts magazine The Art Section. She was the juror and a co-curator of Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze, a large travelling feminist art exhibition sponsored by the Women’s Caucus of Art that showed at SOMARTs in San Francisco and the Kinsey Institute Gallery at Indiana University. She was also editor of the accompanying catalogue. She was Curator of Featured Artists and member of the Executive Exhibition Committee of Northern California Women's Caucus for Art (NCWCA)'s 2016 national exhibition, F*ck U! In the Most Loving Way, which was held at Arc Gallery in San Francisco. She was the lead curator and member of the NCWCA Curatorial Collective for F213, NCWCA's 2019 intersectional feminist protest art exhibition, which was held at Arc Gallery in San Francisco.
Dr. Augsburg is frequently invited to give public lectures on interdisciplinarity and contemporary feminist art and performance. She has also served internationally as a reviewer and consultant for interdisciplinary programs, initiatives, and grants. In 2023, Dr. Augsburg was selected to participate in and present at the CSU International Program faculty workshop in Tokyo, Japan.