Teaching an Interdisciplinary Course on Battery Electric Vehicles Without Disciplinary Prerequisites
1FOO Maw Lin and 2MUN Lai Yoke
1Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science (FOS), National University of Singapore (NUS)
2Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), NUS
Recommended Citation
Foo, M. L., & Mun, L. Y. (2024). Teaching an interdisciplinary course on battery electric vehicles without disciplinary prerequisites. Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 14(1). 83-91. https://ctlt.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/v14n1-Reflections_Foo-Mun-6-2.pdf
Abstract
Interdisciplinary courses (IDCs) are a new class of courses that form part of the core curriculum of the College of Humanities and Sciences (CHS) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). The course HS2904 “Driving Towards the Future: Battery Electric Vehicles” is an IDC co-taught by the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Economics. Since IDCs have no disciplinary prerequisites, the necessary disciplinary knowledge in chemistry and economics required for HS2904 was taught at the onset of the course within two lecture sessions. This paper reflects on the teaching of essential disciplinary knowledge, how learning of disciplinary knowledge was assessed, and presents some preliminary evidence on the integration of disciplinary knowledge by the students in HS2904.
Keywords: Interdisciplinary courses, pedagogy, co-teaching, team-teaching