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Integrated Learning at Otis College of Art and Design
Integrated Learning is a multidisciplinary initiative that offers students at Otis College of Art and Design the opportunity to Engage in research, critical thinking and studio practice within real-world situations. Undergraduates in every department take three courses during their years at Otis that call upon using their art and design skills in partnership with some of the most innovative and important arts and community organizations in Los Angeles.
"Creativity and innovation thrive on contact between different areas of specialization and expertise. The most creative periods of human history have been when conventional boundaries between disciplines and ways of thinking have become permeable or have been dissolved altogether. This is precisely why the most creative teams are interdisciplinary."
– Ken Robinson, "Out of Their Minds: Learning to Be Creative"
Integrated Learning is a unique and newly defined feature, launched in January 2006, of the Otis College curriculum. This initiative provides all BFA students with a series of collaborative experiences that extends beyond the boundaries of their own major, integrates disciplinary skills and knowledge ,and whenever possible, is sited within a public context.
Integrated Learning Objectives:
Through collaborative projects students will learn to:
- Utilize trans-disciplinary problem-solving skills, working as a team to conceptualize, analyze and define issues and solutions.
- Negotiate diverse public spheres.
- Plan and propose for a specific context, and when possible implement projects.
- Evaluate and critique the strengths and weaknesses of the project.
