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Interdepartmental Courses RecordsFinding AidFinding aid prepared by Archives and Special Collections Staff.2011
Administrative InformationPlease use the following format when citing materials from this collection: Interdepartmental Course Records, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections, South Hadley, MA. Records restricted to use by office/department of origin for 25 years from date of record creation. Return to the Table of Contents Historical NoteInterdepartmental courses were first developed in 1954 with the creation of a Psychology/Sociology course and an Economics and Political Science course. In 1956 a course titled "Atomic Energy: Its Uses and Implications for Society" was created. It was a combined effort of the physics, Economics, and Political Science departments. Also in 1956 a course called "Concepts of Social Behavior" was created to examine the works of Darwin, Marx, and Freud. The Economics, Psychology, and Zoology departments were all involved in this course. In 1968, the Economics and Sociology departments created a course called "The Urbanization of the American Negro". No new interdepartmental courses were created until 1984 when the "Case Studies in Quantitative Reasoning" course was developed. It spanned seven departments including the Economics, Sociology and Anthropology, Mathematics, Chemistry and Computer Science, Psychology and Education, Biology, and History departments. Then in 1993 the "Pasts and Presences in the West" course was created by many varied departments including German, History, Astronomy, Politics, Art, Geology, Biology, English, and French. In 1993 a course was created called "Unity of Science" which combined the Astronomy, Geology and Biology departments. The interdepartmental courses developed by Mount Holyoke were part of a grant funded project related to the development of interdepartmental curriculum. They led to the creation of more interdisciplinary courses at Mount Holyoke and other colleges around the nation. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Contents of the CollectionThe Interdepartmental Courses Records contain proposals, course outlines and syllabi, as well as, exams, reports, and newspaper articles about eight interdepartmental courses. These include a Psychology/Sociology course, an Economics and Political Science course, "Atomic Energy: Its Uses and Implications for Society," "Good and Evil," "Concepts of Social Behavior," "The Urbanization of the American Negro", and "Case Studies in Quantitative Reasoning". Return to the Table of Contents |
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