| Abstract: | The Integrated Cluster of Independent Courses is a Curricular model that takes one traditional course from each of three different academic departments and modifies the presentation of the content of all three courses so that overlapping themes are emphasized and developed in parallel. Synthesis of ideas across disciplines is further encouraged by a one-hour-per-week seminar taught jointly by the three course instructors.The model is a cost-effective way of creating the excitement and integration of concepts possible in team-taught interdisciplinary courses while retaining traditional departmental control and structure of the three courses.The prototype Integrated Cluster of Independent Courses, Twentieth Century Man, was funded by a grant from the Association of American Colleges and the Ford Foundation. |
