Assignment 2A

A)
Source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdisciplinary):
"Interdisciplinary studies" is an academic program or process seeking to synthesize broad perpectives, knowledge, skills, interconnections, and epistemology in an educational setting. Interdisciplinary programs may be founded in order to facilitate the study of subjects which have some coherence, but which cannot be adequately understood from a single disciplinary perspective (for example, women's studies or medivel studies). More rarely, and at a more advanced level, interdisciplinarity may itself become the focus of study, in a critique of institutionalized disciplines' ways of segmenting knowledge.

Source(http://www.schuelers.com/chaos/chaos9.htm)
Although no formal definition of interdisciplinary study has been widely accepted, if it is anything at all, it is a counter to the current fragmentation of knowledge that prevails in virtually all levels of our society today. Unlike the systems analysis approach of a team of experts, interdisciplinary study is an attempt to broaden the perspective of the individual scientist, researcher, educator, engineer, or social worker. Kleig (1990) gives four ways of defining interdisciplinarity: (1) by example, to describe the forms that it can take, (2) by motivation, to explain why it occurs, (3) by principles of interaction, to demonstrate the process of how various disciplines can interact, and (4) by terminological hierarchy, to use labels to distinguish various levels of integration. She acknowledges that these are all legitimate strategies.
According to Kleig (1990), interdisciplinarity implies an integration that can change or enrich each discipline. When disciplines are simply brought together in an additive fashion without integration or enrichment, it is called multidisciplinarity. She lists four kinds of interaction that can occur in the interdisciplinary process: (1) borrowing, (2) solving problems, (3) increased consistency of subjects or methods, and (4) the emergence of a new interdiscipline. At least one of these should be present.

B)
Source:(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America)
In most common contemporary usage, Latin America refers only to those territories in the Americas where the Spanish or Portuguese languages prevail: Mexico, most of Central and South America, plus Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean

Source(http://www.answers.com/topic/latin-america)
Latin America the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. The 20 republics are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The term Latin America is also used to include Puerto Rico, the French West Indies, and other islands of the West Indies where a Romance tongue is spoken. Occasionally the term is used to include Belize, Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname

C) Countries that make up "Latin America"
Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil,Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falklands, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guiana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela

D) Countries that make up the "Carribean"

1. Anguilla

2. Antigua and Barbuda

3. Aruba

4. Bahamas

5. Barbados

6. British Virgin Islands

7. Cayman Islands

8. Cuba

9. Dominica

10. Dominican Republic

11. Grenada

12. Guadeloupe

13. Haiti

14. Jamaica

15. Martinique

16. Montserrat

17. Netherlands Antilles

18. Puerto Rico

19. Saint Kitts and Nevis

20. Saint Lucia

21. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

22. Trinidad and Tobago

23. Turks and Caicos Islands

24. U. S. Virgin Islands

E) Cool facts that I learned about the Carribean and Latin America:
i learned that for the most part when the europeans took over, they brought over small pox and measels and wiped out a large proportion of the indigenous population, with epidemics of diseases reducing them sharply from their prior populations. Historians cannot determine the number of natives who died due to European diseases, but some put the figures as high as 85% and as low as 20%. i also learned that Latin is one of the most romantic languages in the history of our world.

F)Workcited
1)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America
2)http://idrinfo.idrc.ca/Archive/ReportsINTRA/pdfs/v8n2e/109235.pdf
3)http://www.uis.unesco.org/profiles/EN/EDU/countries40314.html
4)http://www.schuelers.com/chaos/chaos9.htm
5)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdisciplinary

D) Choose any two classmates and tell us what you have in common with that classmate:
Brittany hardison: we both work full time and take online classes

Marjorie V Crowder: we both are planning on going to sonoma state as well as majoring in accounting.