How interdisciplinary studies translates to a meaningful career

Before we define interdisciplinary studies and dive further into it, time for a quick question.

Let’s look at a situation

If you have a problem at hand, such as overpopulation, how would you think about solving it? Some possible ways of looking might be:-

• Make healthcare facilities available at low prices to people living in a populated area. The infant mortality rate will go down and parents will have fewer children because children’s survival rate will increase. This is what Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is doing.
• See which places have a higher number of people per square foot. Then develop areas where there are more resources but fewer people. This will give people in densely populated regions a reason to change their cities.
• Have campaigns on family planning in places where the “more hands bring more money” mindset exists. Parallelly, upskill the parents to improve their earning potential so they don’t have to rely on child labour for income.

interdisciplinary studies. You can’t make a dam without considering the social cost of displacing people and the environmental cost of removing a forest. For a mechanical process to happen, we can’t let go of humans and nature. In short, the real world works when we have experts whose expertise is holistic, that is, interdisciplinary. Therefore, this aspect, the getting-ready-for-the-real-world one, should be a parameter worth keeping in mind when deciding for your child’s higher education. And if you ask us, liberal education is what the modern economy requires because gone are the days of traditional schooling.

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