2 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Upper Division
semester sequence (2 credits in fall and 1 credit in spring) is a first-year requirement of all ESE IGP students. The series is designed to build critical and resilience thinking skills, and improve oral and written communication through critique writing, panel forums, and mini, oral presentations while promoting camaraderie among the ESE IGP.
Learning Outcomes1Identify your dogmas and recognize your biases towards learning how to remove your biases and learn how to minimize filtering readings and others' opinions through your own dogmas.
2Gain a breadth of understanding on topics around sustainability and environmental challenges and different disciplinary approaches to a problem.
3Increase your critical thinking skills, your ability to synthesize material, and improve your written communication skills.
4Increase your oral communication ability, your ability to process others' opinions, and build camaraderie.
5Improve your ability to think independently, to re-evaluate your assessment through input of others, and the process for approaching complex problems.
Restrictions
made by Purdue students.