ICIC 12000-01 Insight: Combining Expertise
Topic – Efficiency, Productivity, and Permission to Waste
Tuesdays & Thursdays 4-5:15, Sept. 1 – Oct. 1
Barbara Adams & Paula Turkon
CRN 23335
How much does efficiency matter in an endeavor – whether sport or agribusiness, microbiology or filmmaking? Does efficiency always yield productivity? and is productivity necessarily the goal? Does nature itself privilege these concepts? Is it ever acceptable to waste time, money, and resources? Through classtime interviews with professionals and experts from a wide range of fields, this course asks students to explore these concepts.
Other Insight mini-courses available:
ICIC 12000-02 Insight: Combining Expertise
Topic – Mindfulness
Mondays & Wednesdays 4-5:15, Oct. 19 – Nov. 18
Hormoz Movasagghi & Jason Hamilton
CRN 23336
ICIC 12000-03 Insight: Combining Expertise
Topic – Finding Joy
Mondays & Wednesdays 4-5:15, Aug. 26 – Sept. 30
Gordon Rowland & Karl Paulnack
CRN 23781
To register, select (IC)2 Integrated Curriculum, the first subject area listed in HomerConnect when you do a search.
Course description for all Insight mini-courses:
ICIC 12000 Insight—Combining expertise. How can we combine insights from disciplinary experts to address complex issues? Guest experts from a variety of disciplines will discuss how researchers and practitioners in each of their disciplines would address a common issue. Techniques are introduced to combine their insights and lead to deeper understanding and more powerful solutions. Pass/Fail. 1 credit. No prerequisites. LA.
This is one of four ICIC mini-courses for Fall 2015
* short courses on systems thinking, synthesizing expertise, creativity, and character
* active hands-on learning; no lectures
* lots of fun
* the courses will help you make connections among what you are studying in different courses inside and outside your majors
* this can make learning more lasting and more useful in meeting complex real-world challenges
* courses are one credit and are graded pass/fail
* taking any three of the four mini-courses will count as an ICC elective in the World of Systems or the Inquiry, Imagination and Innovation theme with a Humanities or Social Sciences perspective
See www.ithaca.edu/academics/iicc
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20150410084953744