Topic 2- Integrating Areas

Hi Cornerstone Students!! It was great getting to know you last week and we are looking forward to working with you this semester!

My name is Sara Farinelli. My focuses are Education and Physical Sciences with a minor in Health Services Administration. My future plans are to become a science or health teacher at the secondary level. I chose this major because there isn’t a science and health education major, just one or the other. I felt like this was a great way to get the education that I wanted for the types of classes I want to teach. Integrating each of my areas is very important for what I want to do. I can pull knowledge from all three areas. I think this is what this major is all about. It took me a very long time to figure this out. I have had many major changes throughout my college career.

This week we are talking about integration and how it ties into our major. Integration is defined, by Webster, as a way to form, coordinate, or blend into a functioning or unified whole.

Please answer the following questions in detail.

· Why is integration of areas/minor important in terms of professional, academic, and/or personal developing?

· How have or haven't you integrated your areas and minor?

· How can your areas/minor be better integrated?

Read this article,

http://www.hhmi.org/news/nexus20110608.html

This article shows how four universities are working together to create a new interdisciplinary science program. Tell us what you think about this article and how integration takes place here, in a few sentences. Then find your own news story and explain its importance of interdisciplinarity or what an interdisciplinary solution might be for the problem raised in the story. Post the link so others can view.

Don’t forget to comment on one of the other students posting! Good luck!

Meet and Greet Topic 1

Welcome IDS Students to the Cornerstone/Capstone Mentoring blog! We are very excited about this opportunity to get to know all of you and to be able to help you through your first semester of the Interdisciplinary course of study. My fellow group members and I will be posting a designated ‘blog topic’ each week for you to comment on and for us to respond to. We ask that in order to reply to us you COMMENT on our links instead of posting new blog topics, so that we can stay organized and respond to you as needed. We will be available to answer any questions you have throughout this course, so please don’t hesitate to ask us... & now let’s get started!

To begin I’ll tell you a little about myself- each week a new group member will be posting on the blog, and they will introduce themselves as well.

My name is and I am a senior (graduating in May, yay!) here at UCF. When I first began taking classes, I was very unsure of what path I wanted to take career wise. A friend of mine introduced me to the Interdisciplinary program and right away I knew it was the correct choice for me. My areas of study are Commerce and Education, with a minor in Mass Communications. I am looking forward to hopefully working in the Marketing field when I graduate; and eventually owning my own firm. I try to stay active and I am currently a member of UCF flag football and soccer intramural teams; I am definitely going to miss all of the extracurricular activities available here at our school when I graduate.

So to begin, tell us about you! Remember to comment to respond to this post; we look forward to hearing from you all.

What is your name and what do you like to do for fun?

What made you choose an IDS major, and how to do you explain it to others?

What are the advantages/disadvantages of an Interdisciplinary education?

Activity- After answering the above questions, tell us your areas of study and minor as well as what your dream job might be. Explain how you plan on integrating your education to work at this job, and then find us an example of this dream job online (using craigslist, monster.com etc.). Post your reply in a comment, and then reply to one other Cornerstone student. Thanks guys, have a great week!