Interdisciplinary General Education (IGE)

Think Deeper. Connect Wider. Choose IGE

Our Program

Discover big ideas in small, seminar-style classes that integrate knowledge and approaches from across the humanities, social sciences and a strong learning community. Dive into hands-on learning with creative projects and IGE Arts and Culture Events like museum visits, concerts, and plays. Build powerful skills in communication, collaboration, and critical thinking. IGE challenges you to ask sharper questions, question assumptions, and stand out in any field!

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How We Teach - Teamwork, Active Learning, and Professional Skill Development

All IGE courses are taught using advanced high impact practices and active learning. Each day in class, students participate actively in their own learning as professors prompt students to apply new knowledge to materials and data from around the world. Students compare and analyze the interconnections between different cultures, economies, historical events, and social, political, and environmental systems. In turn, through activities that demand intensive collaboration, research, and dialogue about global subjects, students develop skills vital to their future of work and life, including: teamwork, analysis of global social patterns and systems, cross-cultural understanding and dialogue, application of ethics in diverse geographical, cultural, and historical contexts, historical and social consciousness, effective oral and written communication, and critical thinking. 

Mission

IGE provides an interdisciplinary undergraduate general education experience that prepares students to lead globally conscious, socially responsible, productive, satisfying, and ethical lives in a changing diverse world. 

Goals

Become Better through Diversity

IGE students and faculty reflect the diversity of CPP. Through active learning we seek to dissolve the boundaries that inhibit our ability to fully engage one another in order to become our most complete selves and foster the joyous exploration that is true learning.

Foster Growth Through Community

Provide a supportive learning community as well as a stimulating intellectual environment for each participant’s academic, civic, and personal growth.

Build A Culture of Student-Centered Coll

Contribute to the ongoing development and practice of creative learner-based pedagogies and interdisciplinary curricula that integrate collaborative teaching, learning, service, and research.

Advance General Education

Exercise leadership on campus and as a peer model in academe to create more meaningful general education experiences and contribute to the ongoing development of liberal arts education.