Interdisciplinarity – Core Assessment Custom Essay

Since my last paper received a 0, I am attaching a worddoc with precise details for this assignment. These details include an outline to work with from the instructor. I am also attaching a pdf that details the

types of interdisciplinarity. The paper can have a few quotations but should be predominately "own words". Please keep the paraphrasing to a minimum if at all.

The class is about Interdisciplinarity; the paper needs to be about 2 disciplines that come together to solve a world problem.

Dialogue from my instructor and myself to provide context on the topic:
From instructor – "For some people, this isn’t just about problem-solving. It’s also about reaching new frontiers of knowledge. Discovery for the sake of discovery."

With this, I asked the teacher about a possible topic for my paper, which he then approved.

From me to instructor – "I work in the GIS field, a sub-discipline of geography, and I also do cartography. Since I was a kid I’ve always loved astronomy and learning about space, so being able to map

the galaxy and further has always been a desire of mine. I do know that there has been talk about integrating GIS with astronomy and that maps of the galaxy have been produced, but I don’t know how far

they have taken it or they want to take it. Would the use of GIS and cartography with astronomy be considered a ‘new frontier of knowledge’?"

Instructor – "It almost certainly wood be considered a new frontier of knowledge, and I think it would be an excellent topic on which to do your final paper/core assessment for the course. You could

stick to GIS and astronomy for the purposes of the project, but ‘Galactic Cartography’ sounds like a narrow, instrumental type of interdisciplinarity that would be highly useful to everyone and incorporate a lot

more disciplines: statistics, physics (the tough part about doing galactic maps is sometimes going to be accounting for general relativity), and (perhaps most interestingly) art, graphic design, and user interface

design in order to make the maps usable."

I hope that this context and the attached worddoc (details and requirements) is helpful. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. If the topic of "Galactic Cartography" is too

difficult please contact me about other possible topics (1 should be related to geography) before continuing.

Thank you for taking the time to write my paper.