Thursday, September 21, 2023
11:40 AM - 12:55 PM
Center for Teaching Excellence
Thomas Cooper Library, Room L511
This session is being delivered in a face-to-face format. You'll need to come to the offices of the Center for Teaching Excellence to attend. There is not a virtual option available to attend this presentation.
Late arrival and/or early exit from the workshop invalidates receiving credit.
During their time at USC, our undergraduate students enroll in courses, participate in cocurricular engagements, hold down jobs while preparing themselves for their future careers, engage with the community, and manage their own personal challenges (AAC&U/Carnegie Foundation, 2004), but how do they make sense of these varied experiences and realize how they all interconnect? Integrative learning provides students with strategies to make connections between these within and beyond the classroom activities to help them apply their skills to new and complex problems and challenges.
This presentation explores teaching strategies and philosophies that encourage students to engage in activities beyond the classroom and then have students relate those experiences to their courses and curriculum. We will review current research and practices on integrative and experiential learning and how the Center for Integrative and Experiential Learning supports IL and EL, including the impactful role of our Quality Enhancement Plan, Experience by Design. Participants will discuss strategies for encouraging students to reflect and make interdisciplinary connections between their experiences within and beyond the classroom to promote creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving.
This workshop is a required session for a certificate of completion in Integrative and Experiential Learning.
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If you have an existing training account with the Division of Human Resources, Office of Organizational and Professional Development, you do not need to create an account. You can login using your HR training username and password. By logging in to register for CTE events, your complete training record for both CTE and HR trainings will be available with a single account and login. Check Training Record.
Amber Fallucca
Associate Director
Center for Integrative and Experiential Learning
Amber Fallucca serves as the Director of the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) and Associate Director of the Center for Integrative and Experiential Learning. She leads the assessment initiatives aligned with the Center for Integrative and Experiential Learning, including Graduation with Leadership Distinction, and provides support for office and campus-based initiatives. Fallucca also holds an Affiliate Faculty role in the College of Education with the Department of Educational Leadership and Policies.
Charlie Pierce
Faculty Executive Director
Center for Integrative and Experiential Learning
Charlie Pierce is the Faculty Executive Director of the Center for Integrative and Experiential Learning. He leads a team of professionals dedicated to supporting student learning through Experience by Design and Graduation with Leadership Distinction. He is originally from the small state of Rhode Island and a proud alumnus of Northwestern University (MS, PhD) and the University of New Hampshire (BS), where he was indelibly shaped by professors who cared deeply about their students.
Pierce has been a faculty member at USC since 1998 and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in geotechnical engineering. He is passionate about fostering a love of learning in his students while helping them develop lifelong professional skills such as critical thinking and decision making. He has spent the past decade and a half creating inclusive, hands-on, student-centered learning environments across engineering, in and out of the classroom, through the adaptation of collaborative problem-based learning.
Lauren Epps
Assistant Director
Center for Integrative and Experiential Learning
Lauren Epps is responsible for overseeing the Center for Integrative and Experiential Learning advisement, student programs, and events. She coordinates outreach to non-academic units to support the development of student engagement and reflection, advises students, and leads content development for Graduation with Leadership Distinction technologies.