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Our new mini-course is focused specifically on bringing together the perspectives of coursework in your theme. We’ll do so in the context of significant social challenges.
For spring 2018, we have selected the Power and Justice theme, and the challenges will involve healthcare and mass incarceration.
ICIC 20000-01 Challenges: Power and Justice Instructors: Gordon Rowland and Ali Erkan M4-5:15, January 22, 29, February 5, 12, 19, March 19, 26, April 2, 9, 16 CRN 43368 Prerequisite: six credits of coursework in the Power and Justice theme
Description: Brings multiple perspectives of a theme together to respond to significant challenges. Challenges are selected, and students engage in inquiry to understand and propose creative responses to each. Skill at making connections across perspectives is developed. Pass/Fail. 1 credit. Prerequisites: Six credits within selected theme. LA. (F,S)
To register for this and other IC2 mini-courses, select (IC)2 Integrated Curriculum, the first subject area listed in HomerConnect when you do a search.
Other IC2 mini-courses for Spring 2018 include:
ICIC 10000-01 Integration: Connecting the Disciplines January 26-28 Instructors: Jason Hamilton and Susan Witherup CRN 42346
ICIC 10000-02 Integration: Connecting the Disciplines February 9-11 Instructors: Jake Brenner and Mary Ann Erickson CRN 42347
ICIC 10000-03 Integration: Connecting the Disciplines February 23-25 Instructors: Dave Brown and Michael Smith CRN 43269
ICIC 12000-01 Insight: Combining Expertise Topic: Fact or Fiction Description: In this age of “alternative facts” and “false news,” this course explores whether or not objectivity is a valid concept. Why is it that the same behaviors, events, theories, scientific findings, works or art, and cultural practices, even within the same culture, can have completely different interpretations? Instructors: Barbara Adams and Paula Turkon MW4-5:15, January 22 – February 21 CRN 42348
ICIC 12000-02 Insight: Combining Expertise Topic: The Past and Possible Futures Description: How does the past shape our present and our future? How and why do people intervene? Instructors: Kelly Dietz and Shaianne Osterreich TR4-5:15, January 23 – February 22 CRN 43270
ICIC 12000-03 Insight: Combining Expertise Topic: Running Risks Description: What risks do you take in life? Do you like to play it safe or live out on the edge? What risks should governments and and other institutions protect us from? Risk is a part of life. We'll explore its meanings and consequences. Instructors: Tom Shevory and Stewart Auyash TR 4-5:15, January 23 – February 22 CRN 43271
ICIC 12000-04 Insight: Combining Expertise Topic: What’s Your Why? Description: What motivates us? What gives us determination, focus, and courage? How do we find meaning? How do we develop our “whys?” Why do we act in certain ways and why do we chose not to act? Uncover how experts developed their “whys” and what motivates them to pursue their disciplines. Instructors: Jacqueline Winslow and Sean Reid TR 4-5:15, January 23 – February 22 CRN 43272
ICIC 13000-01 Creativity: Transforming Insights into Ideas Instructors: Debbie Rifkin and Luke Keller T4-6:40, January 23 – February 20 CRN 43273
ICIC 13000-02 Creativity: Transforming Insights into Ideas Instructors: Mary Ann Erickson and Kurt Komaromi T6:50 – 9:30, January 23 – February 20 CRN 43274
ICIC 14000-01 Character: Developing Habits for Good Instructors: Mead Loop and Jack Powers M6:50 – 9:30, January 22 – February 19 CRN 43275
ICIC 14000-02 Character: Developing Habits for Good Instructors: Jason Hamilton and Bob Sullivan TR5:25 - 6:40, January 23 – February 22 CRN 43276
These all are 1-credit IC2 mini-courses, which are * short courses that help you make connections between what you are studying in courses inside and outside your majors * filled with activities and hands-on learning; no lectures * lots of fun * helpful in making learning more lasting and more useful in meeting complex real-world challenges * one credit and graded pass/fail Any three of the IC2 mini-courses count as a Humanities or Social Sciences perspective in any theme (starting in block 2 of Fall 2016; prior to that they counted in the World of Systems or the Inquiry, Imagination and Innovation themes).
See www.ithaca.edu/academics/iicc
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