Integrative Learning
Preparing Socially Responsible Graduates for Complexity, Diversity and Change
Skidmore College is committed to integrative learning as a means to prepare students
to be socially responsible citizens in a complex world characterized by diversity
and continual change. Integrative learning happens across disciplinary boundaries,
over time as one progresses through a Skidmore education, through connecting curricular
and co-curricular experiences, and across the border between the campus and the broader
world beyond.
Skidmore students engage in integrative learning from their very first semester at
Skidmore via their first-year seminar, where they consider a topic through an interdisciplinary
lens. Campus partners such as the Tang Teaching Museum and Scribner Library provide opportunities for students to make connections: cultivate a breadth and depth
of knowledge; connect theory to practice; acquire transferable intellectual and practical
skills; and develop self-awareness.
Integrative learning will be bolstered through Skidmore’s Center for Integrated Sciences (CIS), a state-of-the art transformational learning space. The center, whose construction
will begin this spring, is designed as a hub where unique interdisciplinary connections
between and among the sciences, arts, humanities and social sciences can be cultivated
through a general education curriculum, delivery of majors, minors and programs, and
opportunities for collaborative research and creative work across disciplines.
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
- American Studies
- Anthropology
- Arts Administration
- Art History
- Asian Studies
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Chinese
- Classics
- Computer Science
- Economics
- English
- Environmental Studies and Sciences
- French
- Gender Studies
- Geosciences
- German
- History
- IGR
- International Affairs
- Italian
- Japanese
- Latin American and Latinx Studies
- Management and Business
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Media and Film Studies
- Documentary Studies
- Music
- Neuroscience
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Religious Studies
- Self Determined Majors
- Sociology
- Spanish
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Other
First-Year Experience
We know that students who don’t connect in a rich and meaningful way with faculty members and peers, and who fail to identify an intellectual interest or passion, are less likely to succeed. That’s why Skidmore developed the First-Year Experience.
Off-Campus Study
Nearly 60% of our students study off campus, placing Skidmore seventh in the nation among the top 40 baccalaureate institutions for the number of students studying abroad for one semester. Students can choose from approximately 120 approved programs in 45 countries.
Summer Programs
During the summer, students find a distinctive array of academic programs, intensive institutes, lecture series, artist-scholar residencies, and community programs that serve everyone from high school and college students to graduate students and professionals.
Student-Faculty Research
Skidmore's Summer Faculty Student Research Program provides students with a unique opportunity to work with faculty on original research in disciplines ranging from biology to business, including English, physics, dance, and economics.
Service Learning
Service-learning coursework includes community service as an experiential learning technique to deepen students’ understanding of course content, to build their skills in the application of theory to practice, to increase their experiences with diversity, and to develop their interest in and commitment to social action and social problem solving.
Honors Forum
Honors Forum is an academic program that offers rigorous courses and extracurricular events to its members and the larger Skidmore community. In their first or second years, students apply based on their GPA and leadership potential.