What learning looks like at Cascadia
Active and Integrated Learning
Cascadia’s approach to teaching is based on research that shows how students really learn. We recognize that learning goes far beyond the boundaries of the traditional lecture paradigm. In addition to highlighting group projects and hands-on assignments in all of our courses, we are committed to pioneering innovative models that reflect the depth and complexity of subject matters.
MoPan 2020
The Museum of Pandemic Culture >>
Drawing on the fears and the realities of living through dual pandemics--an unknown virus and well-known systemic racism--students share their work in thematic collections that transcend disciplinary fields. We invite you to click, immerse, and reflect.
Small group and hands-on assignments are designed to help students learn to communicate, solve problems, and interact with a diversity of people, often outside a traditional academic setting.
Safety Film Festival
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Yours Truly
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Hygiene Kit Project
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MOOC Poetry class
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Breaking Norms
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Counting Crows
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Got Muck?
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Art + English ProjectIntegrated Learning Project >>Students from an art class and an English class come together to create poetry and art |
Learning communities and linked courses are pairing of courses that allows students to develop skills and discover connections on multiple levels and across subject areas.
Sociology +College 101
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Humanities + Art![]() ![]()
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Environmental Science + HumanitiesWet , Wild & Dirty
The title alone has you wondering what this class is about, right? See students and faculty explain a learning community, and specifically the union between science and social advocacy. |
World Literature + Art Appreciation
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Through activities such as service learning, study abroad, work-based projects or internships, Cascadia students have the opportunity to put their course learning to work in real-life situations.
Raise Your PawZ
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Real world scenario
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Cascadia's Mobile Pages
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Spanish Children's Books
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Integrated Learning
Integrated Learning is the connection of disciplinary and interdisciplinary ideas to complex contexts, the
building of knowledge across the curriculum and co-curriculum, and the application
of this education to situations on and off campus.
Learning Communities
A learning community is a pairing of courses that is team-taught by two instructors
from different disciplines that allows students to develop skills and discover connections
on multiple levels and across subject areas.
Hard Linked Courses
A combination between a cohort and a learning community. The same students take one
course from one instructor and then a second course from a different instructor. The
two instructors develop assignments that help students make connections between the
two disciplines.
Soft Linked Courses
Two courses tackling different subject matters. Students enrolled in one course interact
on specific assignments with students enrolled in the other course and see how the
two disciplines relate.
Simultaneous Soft Linked Courses
Two distinct classes held simultaneously that interact with one another on occasion.