From birth, from childhood, we learn the facts, the content of this world from many teachers, from many settings. While the interdisciplinary world is always there, we enter another world where teaching and learning is more defined by boundary lines, by disciplines and departments. American Humanities is based on the concept that life isn't really departmentalized. Human beings cannot escape the variety of their culture, the piecing together of their cultural jigsaw puzzle, the search for what it means to be alive. Of course, students and teachers know all that.
Students instinctively understand that concept.
They love variety. Students find delight in the interdisciplinary variety of content and with the heresy of overlap. They know that learning is always about people, about themselves. And so they enjoy the challenge of theorizing about their world, past and present. Teachers know all these things as well.