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Integrative Seminar I : What To Expect

This course focuses on writing as reflection and biography, exploring the ways in which we define ourselves and interact with space. Students will engage with diverse readings and develop essential skills in reading, writing, research, observation, and critical thinking.

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Integrative Seminar I : What To Expect

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  1. Integrative Seminar I: What To Expect

  2. Introduction to Integrative Seminar I Integrative Seminar is a course that links the Integrative Studio; with a focus on reading, thinking and making. It is through this link that students are able to understand cross disciplinary skills and creative problem-solving. Through the semesters the students are led through a series of reading, responding and writing assignments that allow for them to explore and engage with the complexities of design thinking. The course is structured to allow for a sharing of ideas between the Studio and Seminar classes. With a focus on writing, the Seminar program works on themes and ideas that can facilitate learning and encourage students to unpack the multiple ways of seeing. The course encourages students to engage with research based writing skills and through a series of lectures we approach and encounter these ideas. The Integrative Seminar I is a 3-hour liberal arts seminar paired with a 6-hour studio class. The two courses, taught by different instructors, share a common group of students. The goal of the course pairing is to emphasise making as thinking in both writing and studio contexts.

  3. Keywords Keywords for this course are drawn from the Course Description and Learning Outcomes. The Keywords serve as themes to which faculty can refer to in order to frame their lessons. These keywords are shared with students to allow them to reference back to understand the interconnectedness of their readings and learnings. Threshold – Memory – (In)tanglible – Anthropomorphic – Body – Connect – Reflective – Transition

  4. Course Description for Integrative Seminar I Drawing from these keywords, this semester the students of the Integrative Seminar I will look at the ways in which we define ourselves – just as a mirror reflects an inverse version of who we are, the question we begin to ask is ‘who am I?’ The Seminar will focus on writing, writing as reflection and writing as biography. Drawing from several readings from writers such as Joan Didion, Jerry Pinto, Patti Smith and others; these readings will help facilitate a sharp understanding of how we write about your selves. But the notion of the Self is not singular, it evolves and redefines itself as it comes to encounter new spaces. This transformation stretches the self and the lines that define us are blurred between the public and private spaces of the mind. Students of this program will look at the ways in which space and the self react to each other. Drawing from readings as diverse as Lewis Carroll and Kafka, this course will encourage students to think about and react to spaces of the imagination.

  5. How We Learn • Turning up to class (that’s usually a good start) • Turning up with your assignments (that’s even better) • Participating in the class discussions – you can’t be wrong and will usually always be right • Contributing to your colleague’s projects, collaborating outside our own group • READ READ READ • THINK THINK THINK

  6. Essential Skills • Reading • Writing • Research methodology, skills and articulation of the research • Learning appropriate referencing and citation methods (we prefer Chicago Manual Of Style) • Observation • Willingness to share ideas, insight and feedback • Critical thinking and reasoning • Curiosity and interest

  7. Reading List • Kafka, Franz. Metamorphosis. Frank Kafka. (trans. Adam Thirlwell Edwin Muir) Random House (2009) • Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland. (Chapters 1, 2, 5 and 7). Penguin (1998) • Tyerwala, Altaf (ed). Bombay Noir. Harper Collins (2012) • Pinto, Jerry and Naresh Fernades (ed) Bombay, Meri Jaan. Penguin (2003) • Wood, Denis. ‘Maps Work By Serving Interests’ from The Power of Maps.The Guilford Press (1992) • Selected Essays by Joan Didion

  8. Project Brief At every stage of the Integrative Seminar I, students will be encouraged to produce pieces of writing that come to define their style and serve as a response to their Studio projects. This bridging between the Studio and the Seminar will be met through the students written work.

  9. Grading & Evaluation • You are evaluated on a CONTINUOUS basis • Each step is as important as the final submission

  10. What To Do • Be Helpful • Read before you come to class • Share interesting- stuff - videos, blogs, stories, poems, pictures, whathave you • The class is only as rich / interesting / boring as you make it • Learn the Chicago Manual of Style referencing methods ASAP

  11. What NOT To Do • Plagiarism: Shortest Route to Hell • Turn in assignments unedited / without proof reading • Miss deadlines- If there is an issue, write to me in advance

  12. Contact: Email ONLY: imran@isdi.in

  13. Tell Me A Story Integrative Seminar I 2016 - 2017

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