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Title: Srinakharinwirot University International College


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Srinakharinwirot University International College
  • Program Proposal and Overview
  • David T. Brown16 December 2004 ?
    Srinakharinwirot University

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Outline
  • Why create an International College?
  • Key Attributes of the proposed program
  • Defining Interdisciplinarity
  • Why Sustainability?
  • What is an Interdisciplinary Combined Major?
  • Integration of International Course Components
  • Timelines
  • Conclusions and Comments

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Why create an
International College?
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Why an international college?
  • Thai universities require new programs which
    are
  • academically excellent
  • international in scope and credibility
  • pedagogically innovative emphasizing critical
    thinking, interdisciplinarity, effective
    communication skills, applied problem solving
  • socially and environmentally relevant
  • free from traditional bureaucratic constraints
  • attractive and accessible to Thai students
  • institutionally affordable (cost recovery basis)

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Why an international college?
  • SWUs response
  • Srinakharinwirot University is committed in
    principle to developing a new autonomous College
    within the governing framework of
    Srinakharinwirot University, known provisionally
    as
  • Srinakharinwirot University
  • International College

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Mandate of SWU IC
  • to provide a unique broad-based interdisciplinary
    undergraduate educational opportunity with a
    strong international component for Thai students
    at SWU, featuring strong core grounding in
    environment and sustainability
  • to provide an internationally recognized and
    respected joint-major Bachelors degree (BA or
    BSc) program

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Development targets
  • Make the program accessible to a wide range of
    academically excellent Thai undergrads
  • -gt realistic English aptitude expectations
  • -gt realistic cost
  • Fit within a standard 4-year university degree
    time frame

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Development targets
  • Maximize interaction with international
    instructors and student peers from abroad
  • Minimize costs associated with international /
    study-abroad components
  • Harmonize with domestic Thai programs and
    programs in international institutions

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Development targets
  • Retention of traditional liberal undergraduate
    educational values
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
  • Critical analysis
  • Openness and receptivity to the ideas and
    perspectives of others
  • Moral and ethical integrity
  • Social responsibility

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Development targets
  • and Innovation through the introduction of
  • a structured interdisciplinary perspective
  • an integrated international experience that is
    systemic, meaningful, and more affordable than
    full-time study at an international institution
  • a systemic emphasis on environment, ecology, and
    principles of sustainability as a fundamental
    basis for all activities.

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Key attributes of the
  • International College Curriculum

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Key Attributes of IC Curriculum
  • Interdisciplinary Combined Major Program
    Structure
  • Students in the program will have the opportunity
    to be joint majors, combining the Colleges
    broad-based interdisciplinary course offerings
    with a disciplinary major from a participating
    department at SWU.

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Key Attributes of IC Curriculum
  • Focus on Environment, Ecology and Sustainability
  • interdisciplinary core courses will emphasize
    environmental literacy, ecological awareness, and
    a strong working knowledge of principles of
    sustainability as a foundation for all academic
    endeavour

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Key Attributes of IC Curriculum
  • Inherently International Perspective
    accomplished through
  • collaborative program delivery with
    international partner institutions
  • international and domestic lecturers
  • international study-abroad and exchange
    opportunities for students, staff, and faculty
    members

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Key Attributes of IC Curriculum
  • Inherently International Perspective How?
  • domestic courses / academic activities offered in
    Thailand which involve international faculty
    members as instructors or co-instructors
  • study-abroad courses (short and medium term)
    mounted by SWU around the world which may involve
    international faculty members as instructors or
    co-instructors, for SWU credit

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Key Attributes of IC Curriculum
  • Inherently International Perspective How?
  • study-abroad course opportunities (short and
    medium term) around the world offered by
    cooperating partner institutions for transfer
    credit
  • term-abroad or year-abroad study opportunities
    at cooperating partner institutions around the
    world for transfer credit.

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Key Attributes of IC Curriculum
  • Modular program format
  • An academic calendar that is complementary to
    the standard Thai academic calendar as much as
    possible
  • Course modules scheduled to take best advantage
    of the academic calendars of partner institutions
    in the northern and southern hemispheres
  • Provides maximum flexibility in course selection
    and allows for year-round study.

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Target demographic group
  • Thai high school graduates and young
    professionals who exceed national
    university-level entrance standards and SWU
    acceptance standards
  • Thai students who have excellent academic
    credentials and good functional oral English
    skills, but who may lack university-level writing
    aptitude in English

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Key Attributes of IC Curriculum
  • Emphasis on English language program delivery
  • A significant proportion of the international
    content of the program will be delivered in
    English. E.g.,
  • all course content delivered by international
    instructors
  • courses with joint Thai-international student
    enrollment.
  • However

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Key Attributes of IC Curriculum
  • the intended target market for this
  • College is Thai students, so
  • some foundation courses in the International
    College core curriculum may be delivered in Thai
  • some disciplinary co-major courses may be taken
    in Thai
  • supplementary materials and explanation for
    international courses may be provided in the Thai
    language by Thai co-instructors.

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Key Attributes of IC Curriculum
  • In some SWU-credit courses, students will be
    given the option of submitting written work and
    writing examinations in either Thai or English.
  • Students who choose to work entirely in English
    will receive formal recognition of this fact in
    their degree program through English-language
    benchmark testing and a formal English stream.
  • Transfer credit courses will be conducted and
    evaluated entirely in the language of instruction
    of the home institution, except by special
    arrangement.

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Defining
  • Interdisciplinarity

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Definitions
disciplinary Multidisciplinary Interdisci
plinary - what are the differences?

Reference Stefanovic, Ingrid. 1996.
Interdisciplinarity and Wholeness Lessons from
Eco-Research. Environments 23(3) 74-94.
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Definitions
  • Disciplinary
  • of or pertaining to a discrete branch of learning
  • knowledge within generally accepted boundaries
  • often associated with discipline-specific
    vocabularies, methods, and assumptions
  • Examples of disciplines sociology, philosophy,
    biology, political science, chemistry, economics,
    geography, mathematics...

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Definitions
  • Multidisciplinary
  • standard disciplinary approaches are applied to a
    common research question, problem or issue
  • insights achieved through an approach which is
    essentially additive rather than integrative
  • a spontaneous coalescence of these disparate
    approaches is anticipated
  • arguably the approach which produces the most
    substantive research results

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ISSUE
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ISSUE
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Definitions
  • Interdisciplinary
  • a level of integration which involves more than
    an additive analysis of the disciplinary
    perspectives
  • insights are achieved through an approach which
    is explicitly integrative -gt an a priori attempt
    is made at synthesis across disciplinary
    boundaries
  • the issue, problem, or concern defines the
    disciplinary expertise which is brought to bear
    -gt arguably the most effective policy-oriented
    problem-solving approach

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ISSUE
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ISSUE
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ISSUE
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ISSUE
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Interdisciplinary programs
  • are not affiliated with a particular academic
    discipline, but which attempt to bridge
    disciplinary boundaries
  • diverse in scope and context, but share some
    common attributes
  • thematic
  • issue-based or problem-based
  • may incorporate a range of perspectives, from
    theoretical to applied

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Interdisciplinary programs
  • are not a substitute for the traditional
    disciplines which form the core of any university
  • The two approaches are inextricably
    interlinked and complementary
  • Disciplinary endeavour provides depth of
    knowledge
  • Interdisciplinary programs provide breadth of
    knowledge

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Interdisciplinary programs
  • Further details on handout
  • A. The Disciplinary / Multidisciplinary /
    Interdisciplinary / Transdisciplinary Continuum
    (pp. 4-6)
  • B. Rationale for the development of an
    interdisciplinary core program in ecology,
    environment, and sustainability (pp.6-8)

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Why Sustainability?
  • Rationale and Overview

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Sustainable development
  • meeting the needs of the present without
    compromising the ability of future generations
    to meet their own needs.
  • - World Commission on Environment and
    Development (1987) Our Common Future
  • A somewhat broad definition all things to
    all people, therefore nothing to anyone.

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Sustainability
  • Some alternatives
  • A sustainable society is one that lives
    within the self-perpetuating limits of its
    environment. That society is not a "no growth"
    society - it is, rather a society that recognizes
    the limits of growth and looks for alternative
    ways of growing. - James Coomer
  • Sustainability is..achieving the
    ecological balance which allows economic
    prosperity and social equity to be achieved
    across generations.
  • - James McNeil

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Sustainability
  • is not limited to one precise definition.
    Different definitions of sustainability are
    useful for different situations and different
    purposes, yet all the definitions involve
  • Living within limits
  • Understanding the interconnections among
    economy, society, and environment
  • and
  • Equitable distribution of resources and
    opportunities.

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Sustainability
  • A basic premise of education for
    sustainability is that just as there is a
    wholeness and interdependence to life in all its
    forms, so must there be a unity and wholeness to
    efforts to understand it and ensure its
    continuation. This calls for both
    interdisciplinary inquiry and action.
  • Educating for a Sustainable Future A
    Transdisciplinary Vision for Concerted Action
    (UNESCO, 1997)

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Sustainability
the sustainability triangle
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Elements of sustainability
Environment
Economy
Society
- World Commission on Environment and
Development, 1987
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Elements of sustainability
Environment
  • biodiversity
  • materials
  • energy
  • biophysical interactions

Economy
Society
- World Commission on Environment and
Development, 1987
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Elements of sustainability
Environment
  • money and capital
  • employment
  • technological growth
  • investment
  • market forces

Economy
Society
- World Commission on Environment and
Development, 1987
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Elements of sustainability
Environment
  • human diversity (cultural, linguistic, ethnic)
  • equity (dependence / independence)
  • quality of life
  • institutional structures and organization
  • political structures

Economy
Society
- World Commission on Environment and
Development, 1987
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Sustainability
  • No longer a slippery ill-defined term
  • Qualitative and quantitative techniques are
    employed in the study of sustainability
  • Theoretical and applied approaches exist
  • Emphasis on the continuum from principles to
    policy to practice
  • Principles of sustainability are now well
    established in the academic literature
    -gtframeworks for evaluating our practices

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Principles of Sustainability
  • To be useful, principles must
  • be easily understood
  • be applicable in many contexts
  • be transferable across scales
  • translate well from fundamental values into
    applied policy and practical action
  • identify possibilities for change of all
    magnitudes

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Sustainability Education
  • Further details on handout
  • C. Background on interdisciplinarity in
    postsecondary environmental education from UNESCO
    (Education for a Sustainable Future) p.9
  • Other resources
  • Principles of Sustainable Development
    http//www.iisd.org/sd/principle.asp
  • The Sustainability Projecthttp//www.flora.org/su
    stain/lets_tlk.html

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What is an
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Combined Major?

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Credit structure
  • Interdisciplinary Core
  • (approx. 40 of total credit hours )
  • Disciplinary Co-Major
  • (approx. 40 of total credit hours)

General Education Courses (approx. 20 of total
credit hours)
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Credit structure
  • Interdisciplinary Core
  • (approx. 40 of total credit hours )
  • Disciplinary Co-Major
  • Examples
  • Biology
  • Sociology
  • Chemistry
  • Economics
  • Geography
  • Politics
  • Law
  • Philosophy
  • Psychology
  • Non-traditional
  • Engineering
  • Computer Science
  • Education
  • Pharmacology
  • Business
  • Languages
  • Health Science

General Education Courses (approx. 20 of total
credit hours)
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Generic Course Schema
Term 2
Term 1
Year 1
Applied Environmental Policy
  • Introduction to Sustainability

Ecology and Environment
  • Disciplinary Co-Major 1

Disciplinary Co-Major 2
Disciplinary Co-Major 3
General Education
Disciplinary Co-Major 4
General Education
General Education
Disciplinary and General Education Courses may
not occur in same terms for all co-majors
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Generic Course Schema
Year 2
Term 3
Term 4
  • Local Scale
  • Environmental Issues

Global Scale Environmental Issues
Year 2 / 3 Core Elective
Year 2 / 3 Core Elective
Disciplinary Co-Major 7
  • Disciplinary Co-Major 5

Disciplinary Co-Major 8
Disciplinary Co-Major 6
General Education
General Education
Sample year 2 / 3 core electives Economics of
the Environment Ethics, Equity and
Environmental Thought Materials, Waste, and
Recycling
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Generic Course Schema
Year 3
Term 6 (abroad or at home)
Term 5 (abroad)
  • Field Course Project and Journal

Year 2 / 3 Core Elective
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on
Disciplinary Co-Major 9
Disciplinary Co-Major 10
Urban Settlements
Disciplinary Co-Major 11
Ecozones and Biodiversity
Disciplinary Co-Major 12
Year 2 / 3 Core Elective
General Education
Sample Interdisciplinary Perspectives
onHuman Settlements The Automobile
International Issues Globalization and
Environment Environmental Issues Toxins
in the Environment Sample Year 2 / 3 core
electives Environmental Legislation and Case
Studies Human Services Planning Global
Conventions on Environment and Development
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Generic Course Schema
Term 8
Year 4
Term 7
Research Project II
  • Research Project I

Policy Seminar II
Policy Seminar I
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on
Literature Review
Yr. 3 / 4 Elective
Yr. 3 / 4 Elective
Disciplinary Co-Major 15
  • Disciplinary Co-Major 13

Disciplinary Co-Major 16
Disciplinary Co-Major 14
General Education
General Education
Sample Year 3 / 4 core electives
Ecosystem-based Planning Sustainable
Agriculture Gender and Environment May be
Disciplinary Co-Major Course depending upon Year
3 Term Abroad or Year Abroad options
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Integration of International Course Components
  • Scheduling and Mechanisms

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Scheduling
  • Respects standard 4-year (8 term) university
    degree timeframe

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Scheduling
  • Respects standard 4-year (8 term) university
    degree timeframe
  • Respects standard SWU academic calendar in years
    1,2 and 4

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Scheduling
  • Respects standard 4-year (8 term) university
    degree timeframe
  • Respects standard SWU academic calendar in years
    1,2 and 4 (standard Thai academic term
    deployment)

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Scheduling
  • Respects standard 4-year (8 term) university
    degree timeframe
  • Respects standard SWU academic calendar in years
    1,2 and 4 (standard Thai academic term
    deployment)
  • International instructors will teach during
    standard Thai terms

Intl. Instructors
Intl. Instructors
Intl. Instructors
Intl. Instructors
Intl. Instructors
Intl. Instructors
Intl. Instructors
Intl. Instructors from Northern hemisphere
Southern hemisphere


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Scheduling
  • Respects standard 4-year (8 term) university
    degree timeframe
  • Respects standard SWU academic calendar in years
    1,2 and 4
  • (standard term deployment)
  • International instructors will teach during
    standard Thai terms
  • Year 3 (Terms 5 and 6) is different, and offers
    most intensive international experience

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Scheduling
  • Respects standard 4-year (8 term) university
    degree timeframe
  • Respects standard SWU academic calendar in years
    1,2 and 4
  • (standard term deployment)
  • International instructors will teach during
    standard Thai terms
  • Year 3 (Terms 5 and 6) is different, and offers
    most intensive international experience

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Scheduling
  • Year 3 (Terms 5 and 6) is different, and offers
    most intensive international experience
  • Term 5 is a study-abroad field course term
    (within May Sept)

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Scheduling
  • Year 3 (Terms 5 and 6) is different, and offers
    most intensive international experience
  • Term 5 is a study-abroad field course term
    (within May Sept)

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Scheduling
  • Year 3 (Terms 5 and 6) is different, and offers
    most intensive international experience
  • Term 5 is a study-abroad field course term
    (within May Sept)

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Term deployment
  • Year 3 (Terms 5 and 6) is different, and offers
    most intensive international experience
  • Term 5 is a study-abroad field course term
    (within May Sept)

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Scheduling
  • Year 3 (Terms 5 and 6) is different, and offers
    the most intensive international experience
  • Term 5 is a study-abroad field course term
    (within May Sept)

Study at SWU (regular 2nd term)
  • Term 6 offers two options

Study at Brock (1 or 2 terms)
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Scheduling
  • Additional optional field or classroom courses
    may be offered between semesters, including
    ESL training, at home or abroad

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Timelines
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Timelines
  • 2004-5
  • Program definition
  • Program title and scope
  • Determination of substantive subject areas
    covered
  • Assessment of academic resources available
    (books, journals, online resources)
  • University-wide workshop (January 2005) on
    program development
  • Curriculum analysis and development
  • Identification of full list of committed
    faculty members
  • Hiring of new faculty by SWU
  • Piloting of collaborative core course delivery
    in a Thai context at SWU using Brock faculty
  • Establishment of final program structure and
    administrative mechanisms
  • Pilot Program Launch June 2005

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Timelines
  • 2005-6
  • Advertising of new program
  • Pilot Program Launch June 2005
  • Deployment of some Year I course offerings
  • Recruitment of SWU students into newly developed
    program
  • Exploration and initiation of collaborative
    research programs
  • Visiting International Scholar / University
    Mentorship program visits to Brock for upper-year
    course development and collaborative research
  • Possible first iteration of joint Brock-SWU
    undergraduate field course

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Timelines
  • 2006-7
  • Deployment of Year 2 course offerings
  • Development of short-term study-abroad course
    offerings for SWU students
  • Ongoing collaborative development of Year 3 and
    Year 4 courses

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Timelines
  • 2007-8
  • Deployment of Year 3 course offerings
  • First semester of Year 3 incorporates a
    systemic international experience
  • For students without 550 TOEFL May August
    field term (5) in Canada return to Thailand for
    Term 6
  • For students with 550 TOEFL May August field
    term (5) in Canada, but staying on from Sept in
    study-abroad semester or year
  • 2008-9
  • Deployment of Year 4 course offerings
  • First graduating class

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