Deck 5: Academic Disciplines

Question 1

The "social content of disciplines" refers to

A) The community of scholars who engage in the work of the discipline.
B) The academic content of the discipline.
C) The organizational structure of the discipline.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

As an interdisciplinary studies student, you need a basic understanding of theory because

A) More than ever before, theory dominates scholarly discourse.
B) It is what differentiates multidisciplinarity from interdisciplinarity.
C) It will help you detect different meanings of the same concept.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Branches of specialties within disciplines are

A) Interdisciplines.
B) Departments.
C) Subdisciplines.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The natural sciences, the social sciences, the humanities, the fine and perform?ing arts, the applied fields, and the professions are

A) Disciplinary categories.
B) Disciplinary silos.
C) Disciplinary departments.

Question 5

The primary and overall objective of Chapter 5 is to

A) Discuss the role of disciplines and their application to interdisciplinary inquiry.
B) Introduce you to the "cognitive toolkit" of interdisciplinary studies.
C) Explain the benefits of civic engagement.

Question 6

The epistemologies of the natural sciences make scientific approaches inadequate for addressing these kind of issues:

A) Complex issues.
B) Real world issues.
C) Value issues

Question 7

Which of the following expresses the epistemology of the humanities?

A) Knowledge is objective, replicable, and acquired via the "scientific method."
B) Knowledge seeks causality and relies on behavior, variability, and relation to socially held norms.
C) Knowledge is interpretive, critical, inherent to the object or text, and represents values that may be shared or individually held.

Question 8

Which of the following expresses the epistemology of the natural sciences?

A) Knowledge is objective, replicable, and acquired via the "scientific method."
B) Knowledge seeks causality and relies on behavior, variability, and relation to socially held norms.
C) Knowledge is interpretive, critical, inherent to the object or text, and represents values that may be shared or individually held.

Question 9

Disciplines in the category of natural sciences include: .

A) Music, Art, Pottery, Ceramics
B) Math, Physics, Biology, Chemistry
C) Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology

Question 10

The grouping of things according to their common characteristics is called

A) A college.
B) A taxonomy.
C) A discipline.

Question 11

What is an academic discipline?

A) A course that is deemed to be of value in the humanities
B) A course that is offered at a university that focuses on the natural world
C) An identifiable but evolving domain of knowledge that its members study using certain tools that serve as a way of knowing that is powerful but constraining.

Question 12

A discipline's favored phenomena, epistemology, assumptions, concepts, theories, methods, and data is called
)

A) Its defining elements.
B) Its approach.
C) Its bias.

Question 13

What is the purpose of a discipline?

A) To provide sufficient information so that courses may be aligned with a particular department
B) To interpret reality according to certain prescribed guidelines and provide its members with organizational support.
C) To support promotion and tenure for faculty

Question 14

Disciplines share beliefs about how and how much we can understand about the nature of the world we live in. This is their

A) Methodology
B) Sociology
C) Epistemology

Question 15

Disciplinary perspectives

A) Are irrelevant in interdisciplinary research.
B) Are occasionally consulted in interdisciplinary research.
C) Are integrated in interdisciplinary research.

Question 16

The intellectual capacity to view a complex problem, phenomenon, or behavior from multiple perspectives, including disciplinary ones, in order
To develop a more comprehensive understanding of it is called

A) Interdisciplinary perspective taking.
B) Humility.
C) Civic engagement.

Question 17

Which of the following expresses the epistemology of the social sciences?

A) Knowledge is objective, replicable, and acquired via the "scientific method."
B) Knowledge seeks causality and relies on behavior, variability, and relation to socially held norms.
C) Knowledge is interpretive, critical, inherent to the object or text, and represents values that may be shared or individually held.

Question 18

When a professor writes an article (a process that may take months or even years), they then submit it to an academic journal whose editors will almost always send it off to anonymous "referees" who for disciplinary research are usually scholars from the same discipline. This is called a

A) Peer review.
B) Tenure and promotion.
C) Disciplinary perspective.

Question 19

Disciplines in the category of social sciences include: .

A) Music, Art, Pottery, Ceramics
B) Math, Physics, Biology, Chemistry
C) Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology

Question 20

"The shadow side of these [dimensions] is the way in which a disciplines can often constrain thought-declaring some ways of knowing reasonable and others inade?quate or even suspect. According to some sociologists and critical theorists, "disci?plining" thought and academic practices (e.g., disciplinary course requirements) represents an exercise of coercive power and a way of reinforcing social and insti?tutional conditions that benefit some groups and perspectives over others" (Boix Mansilla & Jackson) Boix Mansilla and Jackson are making the point that

A) Interdisciplinary learning is superior to disciplinary learning.
B) By compartmentalizing knowledge, disciplinary learning constrains thought.
C) Space can also inhibit learning by physically segregating majors.

Question 21

When an environmental science program, for example, is staffed with faculty from biology, chemistry, and Earth science, the program is said to be

A) Definitely interdisciplinary.
B) Multidisciplinary only.
C) Multidisciplinary and possibly interdisciplinary.