SYE Course Objectives

• Expose students to significant contemporary issues
• Give students tools for understanding and making ethical choices when faced with these issues
• Teach students the skills of synthesis and integration of materials across disciplinary boundaries
• Allow students to bring together the learning they have done in their majors and in their Integrative Studies courses
• Provide a bridge between academic learning and responsible citizenship

• Analyze and engage with complex contemporary issues, issues for which the liberal arts graduate is expected, by society, to provide leadership
• Practice the skills of synthesis by drawing from multiple disciplinary bases and developing a "big picture" from diverse perspectives
• Use interdisciplinary materials and methods and begin to recognize the strengths and limits of their own and other disciplines
• Practice active self-reflection, including conscious attention to ethics, personal values, and citizenship, including your roles and responsibilities as educated persons, professionals, and citizens
• Practice the integration of learning, bringing together what has been learned in core courses and in major and elective courses to confront a contemporary issue
• Engage in social and intellectual interaction with the wider community beyond Otterbein
• Reflect on liberal arts education, its purpose, and its uses