Designing Interdisciplinary Curriculum Applied Model in Higher Education

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Abstract: An interdisciplinary curriculum is a decision-making process that has specific characters Heuristics, Iterative and Reflexive. Interdisciplinary curriculum first will be formed to revolve around issues, questions and complex issues. Interdisciplinary curriculum process ultimately lead to a set of decisions, is to produce a final product (interdisciplinary understanding). The main goal of the article is presenting a practical model for designing interdisciplinary curriculum in higher education. The research type is review studies and the method of data collection is library method For collecting the data subjective check list is used. The result of study shows that a process of interdisciplinary curriculum study is started by determining of subject and themes and developed to produce an interdisciplinary understanding of the problem and Leads to the evaluation of interdisciplinary understanding.

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