The Integrative Studies Program (INST) provides a structure for students to make personal and intellectual connections across the entirety of their Otterbein education — connections among different courses, between courses and co-curricular activities, inside and outside of their major, and between their academic and their professional lives. The program is committed to the premise that one’s learning should serve and shape one’s chosen responsibilities in and to the world, and each course in the program participates in a shared conversation about the theme of “Knowledge, Action, and the Public Good.” Our courses recognize the varied and vexed impacts of knowledge and action, and they examine multiple, competing, and contradictory conceptions of the public good. Through this program, the undergraduates develop skills, competencies, and ways of knowing that prepare them for the challenges and complexity of a 21st century world.