| IE8 -> Panel: Dec Core: Integrating Critical Inquiry and Interdisciplinary Skills to Enrich a College Curriculum | |
| Time: 4:00PM to 5:30 PM on Saturday, March 29 | |
| Place: Flower | |
| Moderator: Philip S. Russel, Philadelphia University | |
| Moderator: Ron Kander, Philadelphia University | |
| Contemporary undergraduate education consists of three facets: general education, training in the major, and a student-driven capstone experience such as a research project, honors thesis, or internship. In the fall of 2011 Kanbar College of Design, Engineering, and Commerce at Philadelphia University reorganized its undergraduate curriculum to include a fourth facet that both integrates with and complements the other three. Known as the DEC Core, this 18-credit curriculum is organized to form a unified, shared experience for all students in the college, but also so that it exposes students to a particular mode of thinking about the world: design thinking, STEM thinking, Business thinking and Research thinking. The coordinators of these four classes will discuss several aspects of the program, including: the relation of the four courses to student development, particularly the benefits and challenges of introducing students to integrative, cross-disciplinary work at the outset of their college experience. Student participants in a college-wide research project conducted with an industry partner will discuss their experiences working on the project and their relation to their experiences in the DEC core curriculum, and how they feel the DEC core has prepared them for their capstone experience and professional life. | |
| Panelists: | |
| Jason Crook, Philadelphia University | |
| Jeffrey A. Klemens, Philadelphia University | |
| Sharon Kornelly, Philadelphia University | |
| Maribeth Kradel-Weitzel, Philadelphia University | |
Updated 03/19/2014