Introduction to Integrative Studies

Integrative learning curriculum prepares students for current and future job demand as well as long-term careers. Graduates have acquired important skills that employers value.

Marcus N. Tanner's Introduction to Integrative Studies provides a comprehensive overview of interdisciplinary and integrative learning and demonstrates how these skills can help students thrive in college and in their professional lives upon graduation.

Introduction to Integrative Studies:

• examines introduction to interdisciplinary and integrative learning.
• introduces an overview of classic and contemporary interdisciplinary research.
• discusses Interdisciplinary priorities (skills and abilities) that are characteristic and critical for interdisciplinarians to possess.
• helps students develop themselves as interdisciplinarians. It helps students to connect different areas of their life, tell their interdisciplinary story, and construct a meaningful portfolio.
• is interactive! Review and Discussion sections help students to check their learning of concepts presented; and Making Connections vignettes encourage students to go beyond the material discussed by pointing them in the direction of sources that may help them understand or apply the content.