Definition
Courses bearing the Senior Integrative Experience (I) designation are designed to help students understand how disparate academic disciplines are interconnected across the liberal arts curriculum. Because solutions to complex world problems require a mature, holistic and interdisciplinary approach, students must include in their thinking the insights and methods offered by various modes of knowledge across the spectrum of the liberal arts. The Senior Integrative Experience, therefore, draws upon the knowledge and perspectives of different subject areas while at the same time synthesizing these diverse approaches to learning into a coherent worldview.
Goals
- To review the differing methods and perspectives which characterize each of the Frames of Reference categories.
- To reflect on the interconnectedness of those methods and perspectives.
- To demonstrate understanding of that interconnectedness through a major project or group of assignments.
NOTE: Senior Integrative Experience courses are only available to students who have completed (or will complete before the course begins) 75 semester hours toward graduation and who have, in the judgment of the student's adviser, completed most of VWC's general studies requirements.