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The Gender, Religion and Health (GRH) Masters Programme at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) sought to encourage such problem-solving research (focusing on the issue of sexual and reproductive health) through merging three disciplinary areas of study into one programme: gender studies, religious studies and health (sexual and reproductive health). In the first two years of the programme, the curriculum was designed in a multi-disciplinary form, rather than an interdisciplinary one owing to pragmatic and operational reasons, given that this was a pilot programme that was launched in 2013.
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Nadar, S., Reddy, S. (2016). Undoing ‘Protective Scientism’ in a Gender, Religion and Health Masters Curriculum. In: Samuel, M.A., Dhunpath, R., Amin, N. (eds) Disrupting Higher Education Curriculum. Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies in Action. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-896-9_14
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