<p>Katonahmom, the things bandied about in your post seems like educational pedagogy mumbo jumbo which ten years down the road will be yet another failed experiment with a decade of students left undereducated.</p>
<p>I have no problem with selective interdisciplinary majors where connections are demonstrated. My son is in such a program in AI which is a dual compsci/cog sci major. This makes sense as do many others. And I have no problem with a art professor participating in a structures class to inspire students to think along the lines of a Santiago Calatrava. Or even me attending a class or two in vascular biology to explain some basic principles in confind, incompressible flow and wow them with ye ole Hardy Cross technique who was a legendary classroom instructor as well. </p>
<p>I have no problem with seeing that college graduates acquire the skills enumerated in Post #1. And we must graduate student who are critical thinkers and life long learners. But there are alternative ways of getting there other than with education pedagogies which be high in jargon at the expense of content.</p>
<p>Just call me an old foggie.</p>