LTC Lunch: Integrated Learning Across Campus (April 14)

Carleton has a long history of interdisciplinary teaching that has been moved forward by recent initiatives in interdisciplinary science, the HHMI Integrated Learning Project, and efforts across departments. There is an opportunity now to reflect on lessons learned from these activities and evaluate the efforts at Carleton in the context of what is being done at other institutions and what has been learned nationally about interdisciplinary teaching and learning. Environmental problem-solving topics such as global change lend themselves well to interdisciplinary teaching because the issue can be addressed from multiple perspectives, and understanding or solutions will only come from multidisciplinary efforts. Barbara Allen, Ada M. Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Social Sciences, professor of political science; Cam Davidson, professor of geology, director of Carleton’s Interdisciplinary Science and Math Initiative; Cathy Manduca, director of SERC, executive director of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, chair-elect of the education section of AAAS Co-sponsored by HHMI Integrated Learning Project, SERC,the InTeGrate STEP Center, WGST, and POSC