چکیده (انگلیسی):

Increasingly, as part of a desire to improve student understanding of the integrative nature of
business, more and more schools are introducing interdisciplinary courses into the curriculum.
These courses may also assist students with their choice of major. Generally, courses of this type
are offered at the introductory leveland may be structured in a variety of ways. Many questions still
exist about the overall effectiveness of these courses with respect to teaching an understanding of
integration, the appropriateness of alternative course designs, and how they might influence the
selection of a major. Our institution has had such an Introductory Business Course for more than a
decade. The course has always contained a process of continuous quality improvement .The course
has evolved rather significantly during the last decade. One of its most recent and substantive
changes has been to move from having multiple faculty members teaching each section to having
each section taught by a single instructor. We felt that it was critical to examine the effectiveness of
this change with regard to teaching, and also to see if the use of the single instructor model
impacted student selection of a business major. The paper evaluates the effectiveness of faculty
members to teach material outside their discipline. It also examines for the possible influence by
instructors on selection of majors in the instructor’s discipline in an introductory business course