Explorations and Implications of Cross-disciplinary Curriculum Development in Top Universities Abroad—A Case Study on Interdisciplinary Courses of Statistics and Neuroscience
Motivated by the national major strategic needs,cross-disciplinary innovation is becoming an important driving force for scientific and technological breakthroughs and industrial upgrading.The interdisci-plinary cultivation of research talents is precisely an advantage of colleges and universities.This work selects the top 10 universities ranked by U.S.News 2022-2023,and summarizes the characteristics of cross-discipli-nary curriculum development,using the interdisciplinary courses of statistics and neuroscience as an example,by combing the information of training objectives,lecture setups,course organization,credit hours,faculty com-position and teaching methods,in order to provide a reference for the construction of cross-disciplinary cultiva-tion of composite talents in Chinese universities.