TY - JOUR ID - 105006 TI - A Comparative Study of Interdisciplinary Field of Culture and Communication in Canada and USA JO - Iranian Journal of Comparative Education JA - IJCE LA - en SN - 2588-7270 AU - Zolfaghari, Mahdi AU - Hassanpour, Mhammad Mohsen AU - Shahin, Mehdi AD - Assistant Prof. Department of Political Sciences, Lorestan University AD - PhD in Culture and Communication , Imam Sadeq University, Tehran AD - Associate Prof. Department of Political Sciences, Lorestan University Y1 - 2019 PY - 2019 VL - 2 IS - 4 SP - 481 EP - 495 KW - interdisciplinary KW - culture and communication KW - policy recommendations KW - Higher education KW - educational policy making DO - 10.22034/ijce.2020.105006 N2 - The field of interdisciplinary studies is a relatively new field in academic approaches. The interdisciplinary studies have been considered due to the increasing complexity of social problems, the need for combined approaches and the adoption of multiple approaches in order to address scientific problems. The present study, with a qualitative approach and thematic analysis, will extract information on the history, fields and approaches at five universities and more than 25 interdisciplinary courses in the field of media studies, culture and communication. The study results show that simultaneous attention to the "structural" and "content" characteristics is essential to the success of the interdisciplinary courses. The study results showed that structurally, small group training and the use of four semester teaching method increase the efficiency of interdisciplinary courses. Also, consideration of content characteristics such as setting goals, allocating interdisciplinary courses to graduate students, and increasing the number of selective courses should be observed by Iranian higher education policy makers. UR - https://journal.cesir.ir/article_105006.html L1 - https://journal.cesir.ir/article_105006_1edc4e944661a16628a68f81f681ae2f.pdf ER -