How are 超域 and 学際 different?


As I understand it, the word 学際 is usually used to mean "interdisciplinary"
when referring to college courses. However, I recently came across the word
"超域文化科学" while browsing college websites. In this context, 超域 seems to mean
"interdisciplinary" too, but I'm not 100% sure.

What exactly is 超域, how is it different from 学際 and how is it pronounced?




I think 学際 is the only standard translation of _interdisciplinary_ (at least
according to the dictionary).

Although it is easy to imagine what 超域 means, this word is unfamiliar to me at
least as a name of an academic field. And apparently there are very few
Japanese university departments with 超域 in their names.

I feel there is no meaningful difference between 学際 and 超域 here. But "超域"
sounds somewhat unique and attractive, and that may be the only reason why
they used 超域.

And it's a shame that Japanese universities are [full of such unusual faculty
names](http://blogos.com/article/51932/).

