Acknowledgments

This course portfolio was made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Academy for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, through its partnership with the Association for Integrative Studies. My own work on students' learning in interdisciplinary courses was initially sponsored by Carnegie, through the Pew/Carnegie Scholars program, with additional support provided by the Graduate School and the College of Arts and Sciences of Youngstown State University. My research continues under the auspices of the Visible Knowledge Project, a five-year grant sponsored by the American Studies Association, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship at Georgetown University.

Many thanks to Cathleen Ceremuga for her work on web design and website construction. I also want to express my appreciation to Deborah Vess, who organized this project and provided thoughtful responses and advice along the way.

Neither the course, nor the research presented here would have been possible without the cooperation and engagement of the students in ENGL4864 and AMER3701 in Spring 2001, who generously shared their work and their reflections on the learning process.