Mapping the landscape of a wide interdisciplinary curriculum: A network analysis of a Korean university and the lessons learntopen access
- Authors
- Ryu, Hokyoung; Kim, Jieun
- Issue Date
- 14-Feb-2022
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Keywords
- concept space; course space; curriculum mapping; design; interdisciplinarity; network analysis
- Citation
- Design Science, v.8, pp.1 - 22
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- SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- Design Science
- Volume
- 8
- Start Page
- 1
- End Page
- 22
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/139402
- DOI
- 10.1017/dsj.2022.1
- ISSN
- 2053-4701
- Abstract
- 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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