Mission Statement
The Integrative Studies Program provides a structure for students to make personal and intellectual connections across the entirety of their Otterbein education— connections among different courses, between courses and co-curricular activities, inside and outside of their major, and between their academic and their professional lives. The program is committed to the premise that one’s learning should serve and shape one’s chosen responsibilities in and to the world, and each course in the program participates in a shared conversation about the theme of Knowledge, Action, and the Public Good. Our courses recognize the varied and vexed impacts of knowledge and action, and they examine multiple, competing, and contradictory conceptions of the public good. Through this program, our undergraduates develop skills, competencies, and ways of knowing that prepare them for the challenges and complexity of a 21st century world.
The Theme: Knowledge, Action, and The Public Good
Otterbein's Integrative Studies program is committed to a sustained conversation about "Knowledge, Action, and the Public Good." Teaching and learning within Integrative Studies is designed to inspire curiosity and inform action that will support the flourishing of individuals, societies, and the natural world in the widest and deepest sense.
Goal A: To help students recognize how knowledge from the liberal arts and sciences is necessary for intelligent action in pursuit of the public good.
Goal B: To promote active and critical reflection on the self in its full range of contexts.
Goal C: To develop students’ intercultural knowledge and competencies.
Goal D: To challenge students to critically examine their responsibilities to the public good.
Goal E: To inspire interdisciplinary collaboration.
Contact
Carrie Hayes, Director
SCI 315
p/ 614.823.1323
e/ INSTDirector@otterbein.edu
1500: Identity Projects
Outcomes 1, 3, 4 & 7
2000: Self, Power and Difference
Outcomes 1, 2, 3, and 5
2200: Reflection and Responsibility
Outcomes 1, 3, 4 & 7
2400: Natural Foundations
Outcomes 1, 3, 6 & 8
2600: Creativity and Culture
Outcomes 1, 3, 6, and 8
2800: Global Cultures
Outcomes 1, 2, 3 & 5
3000: Integrative Seminar
Outcomes 1, 3, 9 & 10