"Interdisciplinary, Integrative, Intentional"
πaιδειa
Paideia helps you to connect different classes and departments in ways you never knew possible. You’ll collaborate with other students, faculty and staff on projects centered on a particular theme. And you’ll have the opportunity to participate in civic engagement and intercultural learning experiences that allow you to apply your new found knowledge beyond the classroom.
Three interconnected courses (a “cluster”) followed by a team-taught interdisciplinary Paideia Seminar, will further help to connect the dots. The seminars provide the opportunity for you and your “cohort” to reflect on your clustered courses and explore how your interdisciplinary experiences relate to your major.
What am I going to do?
How am I going to do this?
What it does to your brain:
The Paideia experience introduces students to connections. Through collaboration, participation in civic engagement activities, intercultural experiences and undergraduate research, students "rearrange the blocks" to form new solutions.
Throughout their Paideia experience, students will integrate their knowledge, employ high-level problem solving skills and engage in deep learning as they apply their liberal arts education to essential questions of the world around them.
“I’m seeing these real connections, and solving real problems.”
De Andre’ Woods-Walker ’15
What it does to your schedule:
Students will be introduced to Paideia themes during their first semester and could start taking related courses their first year. Once three related courses are completed (usually around Spring of your Junior year), students are eligible to enroll in the team-taught Paideia Seminar that wraps up (or unwraps) the whole package.
develop, enrich, experiment,
collaborate
Big Questions
What is a cohort? A cluster? What about "interdisciplinary?" These are all ways of saying that Paideia is a group project with multiple parts. You and students like you will be civically engaged, experience different cultures and thoroughly explore new ideas.
