Reading Assignment for Mon 4/10
JK's Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory & Practice:
Towards the end of the Ch.7, the author talks about the necessity for creating a metalanguage for any interdisciplinary. I understand that it plays a role in explaining terms for each spanning discipline to understand each other, but doesn't this promote the creation of a separate discipline, which would defeat the purpose of being interdisciplinary in the first place?
New Methods in Humanities Research (online):
I really liked this article because I have always wanted to know what research in the humanities really was (that's the scientific bias coming out of me). They make a point in the article about how humanistic research differs from scientific reseach in having many different methologies. Thus my second question is - why is there such a discrepancy in methods in humanistic research, but not in scientific research?
Another observation from this article is that humanistic research seems to be somewhat subjective. On the other hand, it could just be from this example they were using to describe this type of research. My third question is - what are some examples of humanistic research that is more objective?
Towards the end of the Ch.7, the author talks about the necessity for creating a metalanguage for any interdisciplinary. I understand that it plays a role in explaining terms for each spanning discipline to understand each other, but doesn't this promote the creation of a separate discipline, which would defeat the purpose of being interdisciplinary in the first place?
New Methods in Humanities Research (online):
I really liked this article because I have always wanted to know what research in the humanities really was (that's the scientific bias coming out of me). They make a point in the article about how humanistic research differs from scientific reseach in having many different methologies. Thus my second question is - why is there such a discrepancy in methods in humanistic research, but not in scientific research?
Another observation from this article is that humanistic research seems to be somewhat subjective. On the other hand, it could just be from this example they were using to describe this type of research. My third question is - what are some examples of humanistic research that is more objective?
posted by Belinda Luk @ 10:40 PM
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