Photo of two oriental women in traditional dress leading a tea ceremony
Students recently participated in a tea ceremony as part of INST 384, "Approaching Japan through It's Arts."

We don't have a crystal ball to see what careers of the future will be and will look like. What we do have is something better. Integrative Studies educates you for your future - whatever it might be.

Students take Integrative Studies courses throughout their four years at Otterbein. It's how we choose to put the liberal arts to work. Search the stars, read a new author, go inside the human mind, thrill to a performance. Integrative Studies courses will show you how areas of study are related to each other, and you'll hone the skills that will give you the power to own the future.

Congratulations!
Otterbein College was selected to be one of 16 institutions nationally to take part in the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) project, "Shared Futures: General Education and Global Learning." The institutions in this network will use global issues as an organizing principle for general education and develop programs that prepare students for citizenship in a world of global change and interdependence. Press release.

We'll help you learn how to find and evaluate information, to think critically and creatively, and to communicate your ideas effectively. You'll learn that, while knowing "what" is important, knowing "how" and "why" unleashes your potential.

Integrative Studies helps you to become a whole person and to participate in the magic of the human experience in all of its dimensions. You'll be confident that who you are is more than what you do to make a living.