¿Están las aulas saudíes preparadas para una interdisciplinariedad que utilice la biología evolutiva en la enseñanza...

With the growing interest in updating different programs across Saudi universities so that they could allow for more interdisciplinary research, a question emerged regarding the manner by which literary programs are going to be restructured. As such, this research was tackled with the aim to find how a group of Saudi undergraduate students are going to respond to an engagement with science, specifically biology, in the teaching of fiction. The idea seemed particularly interesting considering the fact that science classes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) do not endorse or engage with the theory of evolution in an overt manner. One reason why this is the case is that the theory of evolution is perceived as a blatant contradiction to the Islamic account of creation and the story of Adam and Eve. Psychology classes at the Kingdom's secondary schools are also approached in the same manner. While they do endorse the interactionist approach, they do not engage with any notions derived from evolutionary or biological psychology in any way. The research shows that there is a level of acceptance and even readiness among Saudi students regarding the employment of the bio-cultural approach or evolutionary literary theory in the teaching of literature. However, certain considerations need to be taken into account before opening the literary field up to the sciences in Saudi universities.