{"id":534,"date":"2026-08-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/locky\/?page_id=534"},"modified":"2026-08-25T16:58:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T16:58:50","slug":"ids-300w","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/locky\/coursework\/tech-society\/ids-300w\/","title":{"rendered":"IDS 300W"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Course Grade: A<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">Interdisciplinary Theory and Concepts<\/h1>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This writing-intensive course examined the history, concepts, and application of interdisciplinary study \u2014 how distinct academic disciplines can be integrated to address problems that no single field can solve alone. Working through Repko and Szostak&#8217;s ten-step interdisciplinary research process, students learned to identify relevant disciplines, develop adequacy in each, evaluate and compare their insights, surface the conflicts between them, and build common ground into a single integrated understanding. The course centered on a semester-long research paper that applied this process to a real-world issue, developing both interdisciplinary reasoning and scholarly writing skills.<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Course objectives<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li>Examine the interdisciplinary nature of work, education, and research<\/li>\n<li>Explore the relationship between critical thinking and interdisciplinary learning<\/li>\n<li>Apply Repko and Szostak&#8217;s ten-step interdisciplinary research process to a real-world problem<\/li>\n<li>Develop adequacy across multiple disciplines and evaluate their distinct insights<\/li>\n<li>Identify conflicts between disciplinary perspectives and build common ground<\/li>\n<li>Integrate insights from several disciplines into a single, coherent framework<\/li>\n<li>Strengthen scholarly research, argumentation, and APA writing skills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd39 Key Skills &amp; Topics<\/h2>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udde9 Interdisciplinary Research Process<\/h4>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li>Repko &amp; Szostak&#8217;s ten-step method<\/li>\n<li>Identifying relevant disciplines &amp; developing adequacy<\/li>\n<li>Conflict identification &amp; common-ground techniques (e.g., redefinition)<\/li>\n<li>Integration into a comprehensive understanding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">\u2696\ufe0f Applied Topic: AI, Law &amp; Elder Fraud<\/h4>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li>Privacy law and the notice-and-choice consent paradigm<\/li>\n<li>Criminology of elder fraud (routine activity theory, crime scripts, deterrence vs. legitimacy)<\/li>\n<li>Privacy-preserving AI detection (on-device inference, federated learning, differential privacy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">\u270d\ufe0f Academic Writing &amp; Communication<\/h4>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li>Thesis-driven, argumentative writing<\/li>\n<li>Evaluating empirical, peer-reviewed sources<\/li>\n<li>APA formatting and citation<\/li>\n<li>Translating technical concepts for a non-specialist audience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Course Material<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Detecting Elder Fraud Without Surveilling Elders<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udee1\ufe0f An interdisciplinary research paper examining the legal and criminological conditions under which AI can lawfully and privately detect phone-based scams targeting older adults. 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