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Integrative Pathways and Centers

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Integrative Pathways and Centers

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What is an Integrative Pathway?

An Integrative Pathway at Connecticut College is a structured set of interdisciplinary courses and experiences organized around a central theme. A cornerstone of Connections, Integrative Pathways are modeled on the College’s centers for interdisciplinary scholarship and help you explore complex issues you care about from multiple perspectives.

Each Pathway connects your coursework with an off-campus learning experience, such as study away or a summer internship. With support from faculty and academic advisers, you’ll develop an “animating question”—a personally meaningful question that gives focus to your courses, off-campus experience and Pathway as a whole.

In the fall of your senior year, you’ll bring together what you’ve learned and present the results of your integrative studies alongside your classmates at an all-College symposium.


Four Core Components


Each Integrative Pathway includes four core components:

Thematic Inquiry

Every student must take a designated course that presents the theme and provides an overview of the Pathway. In this course, you will develop an animating question, begin to select courses that connect to the question and begin to consider an off-campus experience.

Pathway Courses

These three courses, taken in a variety of departments and disciplines, allow you to explore the theme of the Pathway in light of your animating questions. (See the links below to specific Pathways for a list of possible courses.)

Global/Local Engagement

Each Pathway requires you to pursue purposeful engagement in a local or international context, such as study away, an internship or community-based learning.

Senior Reflection

Each Pathway provides an opportunity during the fall of the senior year for you to reflect on the different elements of your Pathway, in the context of your overall undergraduate experience. This component is connected to an All-College Symposium, at which you will share your response to your animating questions with the wider College community.


Pathways

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  • Creativity
  • Data, Information, and Society
  • Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, Value, and Change
  • Food
  • Global Capitalism
  • Media, Rhetoric, and Communication
  • Peace and Conflict
  • Public Health
  • Social Justice and Sustainability: Developing Resilient Communities Locally and Globally


Centers for Interdisciplinary Scholarship / Certificate Programs

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  • Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology
  • Center for the Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity
  • Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment
  • Holleran Center for Community Action
  • Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts
  • Museum Studies Certificate program

Connections

P: 860-439-2899 E: eofri@conncoll.edu

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Contact

Libby Friedman ’80
Assistant Dean of the College for Connections

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