12V Interdisciplinary Perspective

Interdisciplinary Perspective: combining two different subjects and analyzing them through different viewpoints.

It is important to have interdisciplinary perspective, especially when you are in college.  College students are expected to learn things through different perspectives.  If you are looking at ideas through interdisciplinary perspectives then you are thinking outside the box in order to look at concepts in different ways.  This term relates to inquiry because you are connecting different subjects by being creative and analyzing them.  Interdisciplinary perspective helps you understand ideas on a more college level.

More Vocabulary:

Surplus: more than what is needed or used.
In economics we are learning that surpluses are cause by a binding price floor and will be greatest is both supply and demand are elastic.

Referent Class: A subgroup of the mainstream against which mainstream culture measures itself.
In media we are learning about how the referent class had dominated positions of power in business and politics.