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What did you understand by the word ‘multidisciplinary’?
A
To follow multiple good disciplines
B
Combining several academic disciplines
C
Combining several democratic disciplines
D
Following multiple paths or directions
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -So a multidisciplinary (or interdisciplinary) course is a team-taught course in which students are asked to understand a single subject as it’s seen by two or more traditional disciplines. Multidisciplinary teaching can open students’ eyes to different views of a subject that they had never considered before.

Detailed explanation-2: -A multidisciplinary curriculum is one in which the same topic is studied from the viewpoint of more than one discipline. Frequently multidisciplinary and crossdisciplinary are used as synonyms describing the aim to cross boundaries between disciplines.

Detailed explanation-3: -Disciplinary knowledge refers to the specialisation and in-depth content knowledge of a certain type of curriculum or subject. Multidisciplinary knowledge refers to knowledge of a wide range of perspectives within a combination of subject areas.

Detailed explanation-4: -Multidisciplinary research takes place when faculty from different disciplines work independently on a common problem or research question. In this approach, faculty share research goals and work on the same problem, but look at it from their own discipline’s perspective.

Detailed explanation-5: -Results: Multidisciplinarity draws on knowledge from different disciplines but stays within their boundaries. Interdisciplinarity analyzes, synthesizes and harmonizes links between disciplines into a coordinated and coherent whole.

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