Unfortunately, the progressive education, which was very popular during the 60's-70's in the US, has failed. Several of the comments here referred to "progressive" ideas (for more details look into the works of Dewey, Freire, Bertrand Russel), but what good are we unless we learn from our history? The new phase of progressive education in the US today has been researched over and over, and the findings are inconclusive: "progressive" students did not show consistent improvement in any educational measurament. As much as I, personally, highly support these ideas, the discussion is useless unless we face the evidential ineffectiveness of this method.

Are you referring to Kordova's class?

Sorry for my out-of-context question there. The equivalent class I had to take on my first semester of the BA seems very similar to what you describe. Moving back to the issue at hand, Pooh, universities do provide students with the interdisciplinary connections, or at least provide students with enough elective options to explore into interdisciplinary connections on their own.