This article describes an interdisciplinary undergraduate course in the science and policy of sustainable agriculture that was developed for students majoring in political science. As the theme of the course was both the science and politics of sustainable agriculture, the authors selected and developed materials that featured both natural and social science domains. The major barriers to learning ... Full description.

This article presents a technique, Cross-Disciplinary Peer Education (CDPE), which allows forestry students to teach student peers from other disciplines about basic forestry principles. CDPE is an innovative way to give natural resource and agriculture students (peer educators) the opportunity to educate students from other disciplines (peer learners). The authors found that by using this technique, ... Full description.

The Field Tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG) offers broadly applicable, self-contained modular classroom assessment techniques (CATs) and discipline-specific tools for science, technology, engineering, and math performance. Each has been developed, tested, and refined in real college and university classrooms. The FLAG also contains an assessment primer and a section to help teachers select the ... Full description.