Core Assessment

In the Core Assessment for this course, you will write an interdisciplinary paper of your choice on a topic that covers the two
areas of your interdisciplinary studies degree. The paper should attempt to synthesize an answer to a new question that is
informed by disciplinary insights from two or more disciplines. It should be a thesis-driven paper or creative work of 5-8 pages.
Find two disciplinary insights, one from each of your two disciplinary minors (Logistics & Marketing) along with a problem that
integrating them could help solve. Don’t do any kind of internet search for your problem — just use the disciplinary insights you already have from your two minors. What you say about the problem will be totally new! Along the way, you might want to
consider incorporating an insight from a third or fourth discipline to support your work. But make sure you use at least two!
In the end, the paper should describe the two disciplinary insights, critically evaluate them, and use the broad model (or one of the other integration strategies) to bring together a more comprehensive understanding of the topic. Ideally, this will mean
incorporating theories, concepts, or assumptions shown in one insight to bear on another.
For a conclusion, you don’t need to solve the problem. Remember, you’re aiming for a more comprehensive understanding of
the problem you lay out. Sometimes this understanding will involve pointing to a wider context for the problem or a framework
for making progress on the problem or topic.

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