| Title | Design and Implementation of Integrated Science Core Courses |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Science |
| Status | Completed |
| Duration | 2 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/1998 |
| Completion | 03/31/1999 |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 1998/1999 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Jülyet Benbasat |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 30,935 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Jülyet Benbasat, Associate Dean, Curriculum Initiatives, Faculty of Science |
| Year 1: Summary | Our objective is to design and implement three Integrated Science (IS) courses which will be at the core of a new degree stream in the Faculty of Science which will lead to a B. Sc. In Integrated Sciences. The Program will be launched in September 1998. We are, therefore, planning to implement three IS courses by next September (the first phase of the project) and another three by September 1999 (second phase) while we fine-tune the first set.
IS students will have the flexibility to build their own interdisciplinary programs by combining courses across the curriculum in cohesive and complementary ways. At the same time, we must help them acquire the tools to search for and recognize relationships in the knowledge and concepts covered throughout their course of study. IS courses will “teach by example”, each focusing on a special topic from many different perspectives. They will:
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| Year 2: Project Year | Year 2 |
| Year 2: Funding Year | 1999/2000 |
| Year 2: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 2: Principal Investigator | John Gosline |
| Year 2: Funded Amount | 49,750 |
| Year 2: Team Members | John Gosline, Director, Integrated Sciences Program, Faculty of Science |
| Year 2: Summary | Our objective is to design and implement Integrated Science (ISCI) courses that will be at the core of the new Integrated Sciences Program in the Faculty of Science. This Program was launched in September 1998, and it gives ISCI students the flexibility to build their own programs within certain guidelines and enroll in nine credits of “Integration Courses” (ISCI) courses in their third and fourth years. Our first three ISCI courses, which are running in the 1998/1999 academic year to serve the 50 ISCI students currently enrolled, were developed under a TLEF grant awarded last year. The current proposal will support the development of three new ISCI courses for September 1999 and the fine tuning of the first three, in anticipation of roughly 100 new ISCI students next year. Why Integration courses? In the Integrated Science Program, we ask students to set up their own degree programs by combining courses across Science in cohesive and complementary ways. We must also help them acquire the tools which will allow them to search for and recognize relationships between concepts covered in their different courses. The ISCI integration courses are designed to fulfill this function. They will:
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