HELPING STUDENTS MAKE CONNECTIONS ACROSS DISCIPLINES

Encouraging students' interdisciplinary thinking may be a key element in facilitating their creativity. In this article, I describe a case r eport involving teaching styles and assignments designed to teach psyc hology from a more interdisciplinary perspective. I present examples i llustrating how the arts and humanities can enrich psychology and vice versa, and I report students' responses to the interdisciplinary appr oach.