History and Economics: Can Students (And Professors) Learn Together?
Author(s)
Abbott, William; Nantz, Kathryn
Abstract
In spite of much rhetoric and many adaptations of core curricula, one of the old problems still plagues us: students compartmentalize knowledge and fail to make lasting connections between subjects. We have developed a course integration that overcomes this and other problems and that includes two unusual features. Our project integrated two courses that, to our knowledge, had never been paired: Introduction to Macroeconomics, from the social sciences and Empire to Commonwealth, 1815-1992. from the humanities. And in an attempt at genuine integration, each professor participated as a student in every class of the other’s course.
