Core Interdisciplinary Connections

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Connect your Core Curriculum learning across fields of knowledge and design an interdisciplinary pathway that deepens your knowledge and broadens your perspective.

What are Core Interdisciplinary Connections?

Through the Core Curriculum, you will examine some of the urgent issues that shape our world and impact our future. Engage with enduring questions, and develop critical thinking and career-ready skills needed to address the complex challenges of human society.

You may wish to connect your Core Curriculum learning through selecting thematically-related courses on interdisciplinary topics of current global significance, to gain depth within a particular theme from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Learning Goals

• Thematic Depth:Pursue purposeful thematic pathways that connect a selection of your Core courses around a multidisciplinary theme or Big Question.
• Interdisciplinarity: Approach themes through multiple disciplinary perspectives and develop an enriched understanding through interconnected knowledge.
• Global Connections: Deepen your awareness and appreciation of pressing global issues, and develop diversity of thought and cross-cultural competence.
• Integration:Pose questions that go beyond the specifics of an issue to generate new ideas and solutions addressing broader societal contexts.
• Career Readiness: Translate interdisciplinary learning into practical, transferable skills that prepare you for engagement in a wide range of professional and civic environments.

Core Interdisciplinary Connections

### Workplaces Industry and Economies ### Gender Equality/Human Equity ### Poverty and Social Equality

### Sustainable Energy and Resources ### Artificial Intelligence