Carroll Undergraduate Students, Faculty, and Advisors,
The Faculty Assembly has voted to amend the Core Curriculum requirements to remove the Integrated Learning Course (ILC) requirement.
- An ILC course exemption will be posted for all students following the catalog year 2021.
- The ILC course requirement will be removed from the Central Sequence requirements effective catalog year 2022.
Integrated Learning Course (ILC) courses allow students to study a topic with professors from two different disciplines. These 4-credit courses are intellectually rewarding. They teach interdisciplinary thinking skills that are needed in all fields and professions. Plus, students get the equivalent of 3 credits in each of the disciplines taught. So, a 4-credit ILC in literature and psychology, for instance, replaces a 3-credit literature course and a 3-credit psychology course.
That’s a good deal.
While we still encourage students to seek out and enroll in the ILC courses that are available, ILCs will not be a required part of the curriculum.