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UNIVERSITY DEGREES IN INTEGRATIVE STUDIES

Developing the ability to make, recognize, and evaluate connections among disparate concepts, fields, or contexts is what integrative learning is all about. Breadth and depth of learning remain hallmarks of a quality liberal education. Yet, today, there's a growing consensus that breadth and depth are not enough. Educators are taking seriously the fragmentation of knowledge, not just in their courses, but through the knowledge explosion in the world around us.

Many of the most interesting educational innovations clearly are intended to teach students what we might call the new liberal art of integration. Not only do these innovations invite students to integrate learning from different sources, but they also provide models, frameworks, and practice in actually doing so. The most promising initiatives for integrative learning are about finding strategic points of connection, threading attention to integrative learning throughout (and between) an institution's various programs, and encouraging and scaffolding students' own efforts to connect the parts. With all six regional and four major specialized accreditors calling for some form of integrative learning as an outcome of college, what has long been an aspiration for undergraduate education is now a common expectation. Campuses are discussing not whether integrative learning will be part of undergraduate learning, but rather how it will be defined, fostered, supported, and assessed.

Mary Taylor Huber, Pat Hutchings, Richard Gale, Ross Miller, Molly Breen
Leading Initiatives for Integrative Learning
Liberal Education, Spring 2007

Integrative studies programs are growing in popularity througout the United States and around the world. Below are some of the degree programs currently offered.
Degrees in Integrated / Integrative Studies
Appalachian State University, NC Brown University, RI Case Western Reserve University, OH Clayton State University, GA Ferris State University, MI Franklin Pierce University, NH George Mason University, VA Kennesaw State University, GA Miami University, OH Murray State University, KY		Northern Kentucky University Oakland University, MI Pittsburgh State University, KS University of Arkansas–Little Rock University of Illinois-Springfield University of Massachusetts-Amherst University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of North Florida Weber State University, UT

Degrees in Interdisciplinary / Multidisciplinary Studies
Abilene Christian University, TX American University, Washington, DC Arizona State University Cameron University, OK Carnegie Mellon University, PA East Carolina University, NC Emporia State University, KS Marylhurst Universty, OR North Carolina State University Stony Brook University, NY University of Alaska University of Central Florida		University of Hawaii-Manoa University of Idaho University of Maine University of Oklahoma University of Texas at Dallas University of Texas at El Paso Webster University, MO West Virginia University Schiller International University – Heidelberg, Paris, Madrid Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Degrees in Transdisciplinary Studies
Claremont Graduate University, CA Parsons New School for Design, NY University of California-Santa Barbara University of Dayton, OH University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill		Athabasca University, Canada International Center for Transdisciplinary Studies, .....Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany School of Inter-Disciplinary and Trans-Disciplinary Studies, ....IGNOU The Peoples University, New Delhi, India

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