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Cross-disciplinary study is about more than a joint degree. It's about well-rounded faculty who integrate lessons across professional fields in the classroom, easy access to schools and programs across the University Campus, and preparing law graduates for wide-ranging career opportunities.
As a student, you have the chance to experience this cross-disciplinary integration in several ways.
- In the Law classroom, where faculty are increasingly inter-disciplinary in their focus and 50% of classes are cross-disciplinary
- In co-taught courses, which include faculty from throughout Penn
- From the perspectives of students from the University who participate in law classes
- In your exploration of courses, certificates, and joint programs throughout the University
- By your participation in groups that explore cross-disciplinary subjects through panel discussions, guest lectures, and debates
Inter disciplinary
The study, or practice, of a subject which applies the methods and approaches of several disciplines. For instance, while History, Literature and Archaeology are separate disciplines, they can be combined.
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Trans disciplinary
Transdisciplinarity connotes a research strategy that crosses many disciplinary boundaries to create a holistic approach. It applies to research efforts focused on problems that cross the boundaries of two or more disciplines, such as research on effective information systems for biomedical research and can refer to concepts or methods that were originally developed by one discipline, but are now used by several others, such as ethnography, a field research method originally developed in anthropology but now widely used by other disciplines.
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Qualitative disciplinary
is a method of inquiry employed in many different academic disciplines, traditionally in the social sciences, but also in market research and further contexts. Qualitative researchers aim to gather an in-depth understanding of human behavior and the reasons that govern such behavior. The qualitative method investigates the why and how of decision making, not just what, where, when. Hence, smaller but focused samples are more often needed than large samples.
In the conventional view, qualitative methods produce information only on the particular cases studied, and any more general conclusions are only propositions (informed assertions). Quantitative methods can then be used to seek empirical support for such research hypotheses. This view has been disputed by Oxford University professor Bent Flyvbjerg, who argues that qualitative methods and case study research may be used both for hypotheses-testing and for generalizing beyond the particular cases studied.
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