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The interdisciplinary major program at KAIST was founded on September 1, 2003 to educate and train interdisciplinary experts who can solve complex problems and to create new academic areas by organically combining a variety of fields in natural sciences/engineering as well as the humanities and social sciences. With the subsequent establishment of auxiliary organizations, the program was launched in earnest in April 2004. While interdisciplinary research conducted at Korean universities continues to be unitary, hierarchical, and focused on individual departments without an efficient system, developed nations including the United States and the United Kingdom are making their curricula more complex, networked, and multidisciplinary and are expanding support for interdisciplinary research. KAIST established the interdisciplinary major program to integrate various existing academic disciplines and to develop new areas through the application of a system that is more flexible than that currently employed.
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