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First, please list your areas of interest/focus, minors, specializations, options etc... and then write your pitch. This explanation can be longer than an elevator pitch.

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Interdisciplinary / Transdisciplinary
Teamwork
Collaboration
Critical thinking
Creativity

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Knowledge Integration is an interdisciplinary program whose core values are related to teaching foundational skills to be applied to areas outside of the classroom.

I tend to highlight that we're exposed to a lot of different fields, and have a large focus of developing skills that can be applied to different areas.

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I usually say something along the lines of "it's an interdisciplinary program with breadth courses like sciences and second languages, and you get to take your degree wherever you want while learning skills like critical thinking and problem solving"

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I usually say something along the lines of "it's an interdisciplinary program with breadth courses like sciences and second languages, and you get to take your degree wherever you want while learning skills like critical thinking and problem solving"

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- Jordan

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- Jordan

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Knowledge integration is an interdisciplinary degree that focuses on combining the philosophy behind critical thinking and collaboration along side breadth courses to engage in real-world problem solving

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Collaboration, interactional expertise, "a little bit of everything", "similar to a classical university degree", "counter the overspecialization of the world and act as people who bridge the gap between different specialists".
Léa

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Knowledge Integration is an interdisciplinary program that's located within the faculty of Environment that focuses on collaboration, communication, and design thinking. It has a wide range of required core courses (English, philosophy, computer science, math, etc.) and a number of electives so that the individual can design their degree how they want to.

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Beyond the elevator pitch what I like to highlight about KI is the application opportunities we have to practice our skills in collaboration and problem solving. For example, I like to explain how I've had experience working in a long term project (INTEG 320/321) and what kind of issues we came across as a group and how I contributed to helping solve them.

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Knowledge Integration is an interdisciplinary program with focuses on collaboration, design thinking, and creativity. We have a lot of electives and take courses from across the faculties.

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I talk a bit about the problem-solving/design-thinking aspect of it with the context of creativity and collaborative skills. I like to highlight the real-world skills we gain like how to collaborate or do academic writing in an interdisciplinary setting.

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KI is an interdisciplinary degree that gives you the knowledge and tools to integrate disciplines of your choice. The core components of KI are collaboration and problem solving.

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STS and philosophy.

Knowledge integration allows me to understand the connections between the different disciplines that I'm working in, especially when looking at the interactions between science, technology and society, and questions of knowledge. Whatever the problem may be, KI has facilitated my ability to resolve differences and bridge gaps, coming up with more creative, innovative and integrative solutions.

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collaboration, problem solving, creative and integrative thinking.

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collaboration, interdisicplinary, problem solving.

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KI is an interdisciplinary design your own degree type program within the faculty of environment. It centers itself around key skills such as design, communication, and collaboration. It's very broad, but can be specified through different minors and specializations, as well as through electives.

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Problem solving
Interdisciplinary
Choose your own adventure
Design your degree
Collaboration
Design Thinking
Interactional Expertise
T-Shaped Person

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Ki is an interdisciplinary program that allows you to design your degree and study what interests you, while teaching you core skills like collaboration, problem solving and design thinking to be an effective group thinker, collaborator and expert of interactional expertise. I like to pitch it as a choose your own adventure program that doesn't force you to narrow down your options so soon after high school.

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Strong collaborators who know how to bridge the gap between different professionals and career focuses, knowledge in design thinking and problem solving allows us to work beyond the scope of one specific field

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We get to go to Barcelona to learn to design museum exhibits (this gets their attention real quick)

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We get to go to Barcelona to learn to design museum exhibits (this gets their attention real quick)

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And then I talk about how interdisciplinary skills are required to solve real-world problems

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KI has two components: core courses that focus on collaboration and meta cognition, and breadth requirements from faculties across campus. Some core courses expose students to the scientific nature of knowledge, how to be inclusive of the perspectives of underrepresented communities, design thinking etc. The rest of the courses are left to the student to develop expertise in one or multiple areas of interest.

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KI makes me a better scientist by making me think about implicit questions that are often the sticking point in collaborative work. The metacognition fostered in KI enables me to think more critically and creatively to problem solve more effectively. The collaborative and iterative approaches fostered in KI create an environment where we can work together as scientists to increase the efficiency and quality of our work. The flexibility of KI has enabled me to use my large number of electives to gain expertise in my specific area of scientific interest by pursuing a joint major with the science faculty.

Generally, science people want to know what is exactly relevant to them so make sure to highlight how what you are arguing is specifically relevant to them. Generally, providing tangible and specific examples are better than theoretical or abstract concepts when explaining benefits. Be specific!

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I highlight how KI fosters collaborative and interdisciplinary work. These topics are current hot buzz words, but most people don’t know what they exactly mean in their context, so if you can leverage your KI knowledge to contextualize and explain it to them, they will be impressed.

Moreover, KI student have to show a lot of initiative and self starting behaviour to design their own degree and navigate a maze of institutional barriers in a siloed system. In this way, we demonstrate our creativity and resilience to problem solve.

I also highlight the rigour and high engagement and effort required to succeed at the core courses.

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Interdisciplinary
Collaborative
Research
Iterative Design (Engineering systems thinking)
Metacognition
Critical thinking
Creative thinking
Resiliency
Flexibility

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Knowledge Integration is a unique interdisciplinary program with core courses in design thinking, communication, collaboration and critical thinking which teaches students to become better problem solvers. Students also take breadth courses that span the arts and sciences to receive a well rounded education, and they have 17 electives to design their degree as they choose.

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*The first part is very similar to my elevator pitch

Knowledge Inegration is an interdisciplinary program with a main focus on teaching students skills that are crucial for jobs of the 21st century. We take courses in design thinking, communication, collaboration and creative and critical thinking to become better problem solvers and team members. Throughout our degree we participate in multiple creative group projects to help us practice the theories and tools that we learn about which gives us practical experience that we can bring to real world jobs.

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Interdisciplinary
Design your own degree
Arts and science
Design thinking
Complex problem solving
Creative thinking
Critical thinking
Communication
Collaboration
Well rounded education
Bridging the gap between disciplines