North Seattle Community College's
 Integrated Studies (IS) Program
(linked & coordinated studies courses)

"Interdisciplinary understanding is the capacity to integrate knowledge and modes of thinking in two or more disciplines
 to produce a cognitive advancement -- e.g., explaining a phenomenon, solving a problem, creating a product, raising a new question --
in ways that would have been unlikely through single disciplinary means"
(Veronica Boix-Mansilla, Project Zero, Harvard, 2004).

General Education and Special Designation Learning Outcomes:  Integrated Studies, US Cultures,  Global Studies, and Communication	What is Integrative Learning? What is Interdisciplinary Learning?
Archive of Annual Integrated Studies Schedules	Integrated Studies NEW Course Application: Choose either an online form or Word doc Check out: Sample Application / Sample Integrative Assignments Committee Rubric for Evaluating new IS Course
Checklist for new IS faculty	Alternative Procedure for fulfilling IS Requirement Sample Student Paper
Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning Archive: Assessments, Rubrics, Research Projects,  Sustainability, Taxonomies, Writings and Conversations	Link to Seminar Video (Scroll down to North Seattle; Click on "Seminar: A Skill Everyone Can Learn")
IS Committee Members '09-'10 Committee Meeting Dates ('09-'10) IS Meeting Minutes	Program Review 2002 Program Review 2006

The Learning Community Difference -
A learning community is different from a stand-alone course in that students are more actively engaged in a collaborative learning environment and more responsible for their own learning. We encourage the development of a sense of community where students and faculty learn together. Since this is an integrated learning community the approach to instruction will be centered on team-teaching between the instructors, collaborative learning among the students, co-construction of interdisciplinary subject matter knowledge,
and integrative assessment activities.
-- Mt. Holyoke Community College (Jack Mino)

This website was last updated: 07/06/2009
Link to students' Integrated Studies web site:  https://frontpage.northseattle.edu/integratedstudies