Multimodal Approach to Harmonize Arts and Sciences in the Digital Age

In the Digital Age, a multimodal approach involving different channels and sources of information constitutes a new way of harmonizing arts and sciences. Separately, having achieved the peaks of their accomplishments, arts and sciences have lost the connections with each other. To overcome the century-old discrepancies and bring arts and sciences to the primordial Aristotelian state of congruence, it is necessary to teach humanists to think as scientists and vice versa. The objective of this study is to find out the necessity of bridging the gap between arts and sciences as viewed by the STEM students demonstrating readiness to resort to lyrical means. The methods of the study include questionnaire, continuous sampling, analysis and synthesis accompanying the observation method. To achieve harmony between arts and sciences, it is vital to employ a multimodal approach assisted by digital technologies and create manuals, which embrace elements of different arts and sciences and do not concentrate on a single academic discipline. The results of the study show that STEM bachelor and master students, who participated in the investigation, in the main approve the multimodal approach aimed not only at IT technology, but including arts and sciences, with the view of the benefits provided by scientific and humanitarian fields taught simultaneously. The authors come to the conclusion that the findings illustrate the possible harmony of arts and sciences, especially in the digital age, promoted by the multimodal approach. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.