Why interdisciplinary music in teaching and learning is important in HK context?

Why interdisciplinary music in teaching and learning is important in HK context?Interdisciplinary curriculum has been practised in many institutes for more than a decade, since when people found it important? What are the difficulties and challenges of these interdisciplinary courses? How is the current practice of interdisciplinary subject in tertiary music institutes in other countries?It seems to be a trend of some interdisciplinary courses in the academy (HKAPA) (but not music school), I noticed some in other departments in the academy, some courses are taught by several lecturers from various department.(I will check out those courses detail) What is the benefit of doing this interdisciplinary courses? What are the possibilities in launching interdisciplinary courses in Music School?HKAPA has its unique setting of having different schools combine in one academy, and did we make the best use of all possibilities? And how do we prepare our students better in 21st century highly competitive world? From the past, graduates did get a good career starts, but now, more and more professional in the market, how can the newly grad stand out from the experienced one? They need the flexibilities and broaden knowledge on top of their own skills.The HKAPA has the advantages of comprising of various schools of different arts form, we should make use of this advantages to provide more opportunities for our students, music students can learn more about dance, Film TV, drama…….. (in current curriculum, they can select a few courses from various schools). For examples: How about a course that combine music and dance practice? E.g. Students actually try out minuet, pavane in baroque period; bolero as a dance (not just playing Ravel’s bolero without even knowing the background of the dance rhythm; how about the rhythmic and jazz dance when they study Duke’s Ellington?)How do we use visual arts for music? How about doing a video clip for music excerpts? Music students will benefit and broaden their knowledge when they get some hands on practice on combining different arts form together. In future when they work in organization, e.g. HK Arts Festival, Premier Performance HK, HK Phil, HK Sinfonietta, or even perform as a gig in some events, all these interdisciplinary knowledge will come to be useful.Research Questions:1. Why interdisciplinary music in teaching and learning is important in HK context?2. What are some examples of interdisciplinary music curriculum models? (What are the current practice of interdisciplinary music curriculum in other countries)3. What are interdisciplinary music teaching strategies?4. What are the difficulties and challenges in promoting interdisciplinary music teaching in HKAPA? (teaching staffs collaboration? Curriculum planning?, etc)5. What are the goals for interdisciplinary music curriculum in the future?6. How does new technology enhance interdisciplinary music teaching?7. The effectiveness of interdisciplinary music teaching in undergraduate music programme in HKAPA8. The design of outcome based and flexible curriculum of interdisciplinary academic course in HKAPAMethodology1. Research on current interdisciplinary curriculum, their background, rationale, and results.2. Design interdisciplinary course in academy for HKAPA to see the results and feedback. (what do you think? please suggest other methodology or approach)The impact of the study:Design and propose multidisciplinary music curriculum that will fit in HK context (?) (please suggest other impact or significance of this study