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

For NSCC Faculty, Administrator, and Staff Use

"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 Yearly Schedule Needs and Guidelines 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