IDS 301 Introduction to Individualized Degree Program

Interdisciplinary Studies (formerly Individualized Degree Program) majors should take this course in the first semester. This is a course in "learning-how-to-learn" and "learning-how-to-plan-professionally". It is designed to help students understand what a liberal arts education means, and to design their plan for graduation and beyond. It is offered as the first of the required core series of two courses for the Interdisciplinary Studies major, as an online course, and as a foundation for the Capstone course. Students study Adler's and Van Doren's How to Read a Book, and Adler's How to Speak and How to Listen, as well as develop a preliminary Professional Development Plan form self-analysis of what the student wants to achieve in life. The self-analysis will be done through the book Marketing Yourself. Each week students also do a written exercise to practice the techniques they are learning for analyzing complicated texts and talks across various genres and disciplines.

Credits

3