Mapping the landscape of a wide interdisciplinary curriculum: a network analysis of a Korean university and the lessons learnt
Interdisciplinary programmes have become common in universities and research groups’ curricula. This study conducted a network analysis on a Korean university’s undergraduate curriculum and used several visualisation tools to assess keywords across courses and departments, revealing epistemological...
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| description | Interdisciplinary programmes have become common in universities and research groups’ curricula. This study conducted a network analysis on a Korean university’s undergraduate curriculum and used several visualisation tools to assess keywords across courses and departments, revealing epistemological distances between the courses/departments and their concepts of study. This data-driven methodology defined the characteristics of close or neighbouring departments, making it possible to implement narrow interdisciplinarity through common subjects within the courses. Interestingly, a further projected network could determine the implicit relations between departments that are not considered close, which would make it possible to implement a wide interdisciplinary curriculum. The data-driven network analysis conducted in this study contributes to searching for new programmes for specific levels of interdisciplinarity on an empirical basis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0fb3f14a585649a5a082d72cad0579112023-03-09T12:32:05ZengCambridge University PressDesign Science2053-47012022-01-01810.1017/dsj.2022.1Mapping the landscape of a wide interdisciplinary curriculum: a network analysis of a Korean university and the lessons learntHokyoung Ryu0Jieun Kim1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8656-6387Graduate School of Technology and Innovation Management, Hanyang University, Seoul, South KoreaGraduate School of Technology and Innovation Management, Hanyang University, Seoul, South KoreaInterdisciplinary programmes have become common in universities and research groups’ curricula. This study conducted a network analysis on a Korean university’s undergraduate curriculum and used several visualisation tools to assess keywords across courses and departments, revealing epistemological distances between the courses/departments and their concepts of study. This data-driven methodology defined the characteristics of close or neighbouring departments, making it possible to implement narrow interdisciplinarity through common subjects within the courses. Interestingly, a further projected network could determine the implicit relations between departments that are not considered close, which would make it possible to implement a wide interdisciplinary curriculum. The data-driven network analysis conducted in this study contributes to searching for new programmes for specific levels of interdisciplinarity on an empirical basis.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2053470122000014/type/journal_articlecurriculum mappinginterdisciplinaritycourse spaceconcept spacenetwork analysisdesign |
| spellingShingle | Hokyoung Ryu Jieun Kim Mapping the landscape of a wide interdisciplinary curriculum: a network analysis of a Korean university and the lessons learnt Design Science curriculum mapping interdisciplinarity course space concept space network analysis design |
| title | Mapping the landscape of a wide interdisciplinary curriculum: a network analysis of a Korean university and the lessons learnt |
| title_full | Mapping the landscape of a wide interdisciplinary curriculum: a network analysis of a Korean university and the lessons learnt |
| title_fullStr | Mapping the landscape of a wide interdisciplinary curriculum: a network analysis of a Korean university and the lessons learnt |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mapping the landscape of a wide interdisciplinary curriculum: a network analysis of a Korean university and the lessons learnt |
| title_short | Mapping the landscape of a wide interdisciplinary curriculum: a network analysis of a Korean university and the lessons learnt |
| title_sort | mapping the landscape of a wide interdisciplinary curriculum a network analysis of a korean university and the lessons learnt |
| topic | curriculum mapping interdisciplinarity course space concept space network analysis design |
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