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https://gened.psu.edu/sites/default/files/docs/Integrated%20General%20Eudcation%20and%20the%20Extent%20of%20Interdisciplinarity%20-%20the%20University%20of%20California%20Merceds%20Core%201%20Curriculum.pdf

Short excerpt below:
The University of California–Merced (UC Merced), on the other hand—because of its explicit charge to be inventively interdisciplinary and partly because of its unique circumstances as a brand-new university that lacks the requisite staffing and physical or curricular infrastructure to support such models as cafeteria-style general education—features an innovative first-year undergraduate course called “Core 1: The World at Home.” Core 1 introduces students to the range of scholarly inquiry at the university all in the span of one semester-long, writing-intensive, integrated curriculum that encourages them to make their own connections among the disciplines while practicing both qualitative and quantitative analysis. The course entails a series of fifteen weekly one-hour lectures (given by different faculty from across the disciplines) whose subjects students process in two and a half hours of small group discussion section (the instructors of which assign and grade all course work) and a coordinated, cumulative sequence of written assignments. Core 1’s approach to general education is not without flaw, particularly insofar as the exhilaration of engaging an array of disciplines all in one course is as considerable as the challenge of forging or navigating a curriculum that tries to contain them all. Nevertheless, the course rewards wide-ranging curiosity and affords a high degree of flexibility and so encourages students as well as faculty to personally explore their educational context via the interdisciplinary connections each of them makes.

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Program Level Outcomes for First Year Experience

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Program Level Outcomes for First Year Experience

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Draft Statements (4-5 PLOS)
At the end of the program students will be able to:

Ideas
Math - https://www.aacu.org/peerreview/2014/summer/elrod
DS:  Very helpful for me

Integrated General Education:
https://www.aacu.org/campus-model/high-impact-integrative-general-education-northern-illinois-university

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Math - Ideally someone in CS realm that could work within Media Arts/Programming - we also have made some in-roads with epistemology

Social Science - Could this be tied into legal/ethics?
DS: Still like the idea of Intro to Psychology of Personality because
it ties into storytelling and is good for filmmakers, animators, game, design, and actors but I may be reading too much into that approach as well.  Will be good to hear the "group" input.
Natural Science - ??

Story of Art - do we have an art historian right now that we have access too?
DS:  This something that I will start working on...

*I moved the writing so that Matt had a consistent thread the first year. Some consistency in faculty I think will help with retention that first year.
As they go through filmmaking will be easier to add customized AART programming or other Gen Ed.

Oral Comm could be added in Professional Practices.
DS:  I think this is a very strong pairing--working on pitching, job interview techniques, presenting ideas, etc. in combination with Professional Practices is very strong.

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Distribution of Credits and Placement within program

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Distribution of Credits and Placement within program

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Overview:  SFI is adding 90 credits to its program:
45 Credits (minimum):  General Education
45 Credits (or 90-General Ed total):  Applied Arts
Of these new credits, 71 credits will be offered during the foundation year with the remaining 19 credits placed within the remaining 6 quarters of the program as follows:
Quarter 6--5 Credits; Quarter 8--5 credits; Quarters 9/10:  9 Credits

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SFI Administration:
Monique Anair
David Shulman
David Trees
Laura Victor
Faculty (as of 2/1/20):
Steve Kramer
Vaun Raymond
Ben Kearns
Matt Bennett
Outside Advisors:
Steve Robinow (Associate Dean; College of Natural Sciences--CSU--Chico)
David Ragosin (Emeritus Professor of Mathematics--University of Washington
Brian Lee?

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General Education Courses (Minimum:  45 Credits)*

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General Education Courses (Minimum:  45 Credits)*

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Analytical Writing (5)
Research Writing (5)
Oral Communications (5)
Math/Quantitative Reasoning (5)
Social Science (5)
Natural Science (5)
Humanities (5)
A.  Story of Art (Intro to Art History) (5)
College Success (6)

*First Draft of Curriculum Mapping had classes in bold offered during the Foundation Year. Research Writing was paired with Non-Fiction Filmmaking in Q. 8. Oral Communication is a new ACCSC requirement and could be placed in tandem with Professional Practices (as a team approach in Q. 9/10) or could be included as part of Foundation Year...

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Creative Writing (Bennett)
Production Seminar (Raymond)
Media Arts Seminar (Kramer)
College Success class (Victor)

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Research Writing (Bennett)
Foundations in Media Art 2 (Kramer)
History of Communications (Raymond)
College Success class (Victor)

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Filmmaking Workshop (Kerns)
Foundations in Media Art 1 (Kramer)
Analytical Writing (Bennett)
College Success class (Victor)

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Introduction to Filmmaking (Raymond)
Art of Seeing (Bennett)
Topics in STEAM (Kramer)
College Success class (Victor)