Ithaca College

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.

ICIC 12000-01 Insight: Combining Expertise

Topic – Known and Unknown

Tuesdays & Thursdays 4-5:15, Jan. 26 – Feb. 25

Gordon Rowland & Tom Shevory

CRN 43386

“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld

ICIC 12000-02 Insight: Combining Expertise

Topic – Sound and Silence

Tuesdays & Thursdays 4-5:15, March 22 – April 21

Julia Lapp & Luke Keller

CRN 43993

Speech, songs, sirens and screams; sound is one avenue through which humans and most other animals communicate. Some think of the absence of sound as being "silence". But what is "silence" when it too can convey meaning? Using the theme “Sound & Silence” as a focal point, we will interview professionals and experts from a wide range of fields and points of view to learn how they gain insight and inspiration to learn and solve problems.

To register, select (IC)2 Integrated Curriculum, the first subject area listed in HomerConnect when you do a search.

One of four ICIC mini-courses for Spring 2016

* 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