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Transdisciplinary Courses Transdisciplinary courses combine the key concepts and crucial skill sets from at least two disciplines into one course. Students practice exploring ideas or solving problems through the lenses of each discipline, while also striving to construct a lens that transcends the individual disciplines. These courses provide credits from more than one discipline. Many of these courses are taught using the competencybased learning (CBL) model. CBL provides students the opportunity to define their learning in terms of key transdisciplinary competencies that deepen their capacity to collaborate, communicate, create, embrace challenge, empathize, engage with global perspective, honor self and place and think critically.
Course Offerings Global Sustainability by Design: Global Issues: Place, Perspective and Partnership (ID) Global Issues: Place, Perspective and Partnership is a transdisciplinary course that prepares students to build a better world through research and storytelling. Students use interviews, historical inquiry and systems thinking to strengthen written and oral communication skills and to challenge their definitions of storytelling. By reading works from throughout the world through an analytical, critical and empathetic lens, students develop a deep understanding of place and community perspectives. Students explore questions such as: How can literature and reading works from throughout the world through an analytical lens inspire critical responses? How does the study of history help to realize that ideas and actions of individuals and groups have consequences and influence events? What are the best ways to communicate stories from one community to another? What kinds of narratives do cultures and individuals create? What is my place in this world and why does my story matter?
GRADE
9 Students are empowered to address global challenges, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity and peace and justice. While working on projects connected with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, students expand their understanding of textual analysis, thereby broadening their definition of art and storytelling. Students develop a class community to practice reading, writing, presentation and critical thinking skills with a focus on formulating a thesis with clear supportive evidence that analyzes a central argument. Finally, students are empowered to address global stories, conflicts and challenges, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity and peace and justice.
Global Sustainability by Design: Product Design for Sustainable Entrepreneurship (yearlong) Global Sustainability by Design: Science and Engineering for Sustainability (yearlong)
GRADE
ONE OF:
10
English 2A/2B: Visual Storytelling (yearlong) Global Sustainability by Design: Asian Studies (yearlong)
GRADE
11
Global Sustainability by Design: Constructing Race and the American Experience (yearlong) American Studies (yearlong)
GRADE
11 OR
Open to grade 9. Social Studies Gateway course. Year course. Two credits: One credit in English, one credit in Social Studies. Satisfies English requirement for grade 9 and Social Studies graduation requirement. CBL course.
ONE OF:
Global Sustainability by Design: Global Issues: Place, Perspective and Partnership (yearlong)
GRADE
12
ONE OF:
Arts and Letters (semester) Bias in America (2nd semester) Creativity and Composition (semester) European History through the Arts, Curation and Design (yearlong)
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