Integrated Studies (INTG)

INTG 0001 Integrated Studies I

This course is the first semester of a two-semester sequence for first-year students admitted to the College's Integrated Studies Program. Topics will vary from year to year. For a current description, please see: https://isp.sas.upenn.edu/applying-isp/applying-isp and click on the Admissions Prompt to see the following year's course descriptions.

Fall

2 Course Units

INTG 0002 Integrated Studies II

This course is the second semester of a two-semester sequence for first-year students admitted to the College's Integrated Studies Program. Topics will vary from year to year. For a current description, please see: https://isp.sas.upenn.edu/applying-isp/applying-isp and click on the Admissions Prompt to see the following year's course descriptions.

Spring

2 Course Units

INTG 3440 Curiosity: Ancient and Modern Thinking about Thinking

This course will examine two approaches to the still unanswered question of what happens when we humans come up with new knowledge. How should we describe the impulse, or set of impulses, that leads us to seek it? What is happening when we achieve it? And how do we describe the new state in which we find ourselves after we have it? We will study the work of contemporary physicists and cognitive scientists on these questions along side the approaches developed by the two most powerful thinkers from antiquity on the topic, Plato and Aristotle.

Not Offered Every Year

Also Offered As: CLST 3803, EAS 2440

1 Course Unit