Anne Ellerup Nielsen, Peter Kastberg, Ph.d.

Abstract:  Recent years have seen a gradual burring of boundaries between core academic disciplines such as linguistics, economics, politics, sociology, etc. There are many factors which have contributed to this change, for example our global economy where networking, transparency, learning, and knowledge management seem to be the key to capital, consumers, the press, etc. Such developments point towards increasingly interdisciplinary knowledge. Some universities have reacted to this demand for interdisciplinarity and the result has been an increase in new cross-disciplinary subjects where for instance students of international business, accounting, negotiation, etc. are introduced to subjects which, 10 or 15 years ago, would have been restricted to the “soft” subjects in the humanities.

Keywords: Cross-disciplinarity, international education, study programmes, curriculum development, study abroad/exchange

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