Stimulating Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Research in

描述(由申请者提供)：我们建议开发和实施一个短期(八周)的关于人口、老龄化和健康的暑期培训座谈会，目标是从不同学科招收的高级本科生。我们试图让学生对他们的研究生教育和随后的职业道路做出决定，认识到寻求跨学科培训和进行人口、老龄化和健康方面的跨学科研究的可行性和价值。利用由跨学科学者团队开发的一套选定主题的教学模块，将利用公立大学(WWU)和当地非营利性医院(华盛顿州贝灵汉的圣约瑟夫医院)的工作人员和资源进行教学，这些医院在整个社区都有大量与老龄化和健康有关的联系。作为一种旨在说明跨学科研究的潜力和价值的教学工具，在座谈会期间，学生将被分成由来自不同学科的学生组成的解决方案小组。这些解决方案团队将被要求合作，为我们提议的八个教学模块中的每个模块中提出的关键问题提供答案。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose the development and implementation of a short-term (eight week) summer training colloquium in population, aging, and health aimed at advanced undergraduate students recruited from diverse disciplines. We seek to provide for students making decisions about their graduate education and subsequent career paths an appreciation of the feasibility and value of seeking interdisciplinary training and of conducing interdisciplinary research in population, aging and health. Using a set of teaching modules on selected topics developed by teams of interdisciplinary scholars, instruction will occur using the staff and resources of both a public university (WWU) and a local not-for-profit hospital (St. Joseph Hospital in Bellingham, Washington) with substantial aging and health-related links throughout the community. As a pedagogical tool designed to illustrate the potential and value of interdisciplinary research, students will be sorted into solution teams comprised of students from different disciplines for the duration of the colloquium. These solution teams will be required to work cooperatively to provide answers to key questions raised in each of the eight teaching modules we propose.