Overcoming Challenges

Engaging in interdisciplinary teaching poses many challenges. Thinking about how to advertise interdisciplinary modules, bring in staff members from other departments/faculty to share their expertise, reach out to organizations to showcase perspectives from the community, and design a course or module that can effectively suit the needs of students from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds can be difficult. Here, you will find some insights from staff who have faced these challenges head-on and found ways to develop their interdisciplinary practice despite the barriers.