Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy

Integrated Studies

Integrated Studies
Integrated Studies

Make interdisciplinary connections using skills developed in various subjects. Explore your personal interests through field courses and special...

Science Health and Race in America
Integrated Studies

This team-taught interdisciplinary course explores race and racism in science and medicine in the United States from the 20th century to today via biological and historical lenses. We will begin the course by exploring an array of sociological, historical,...

Sports Science
Integrated Studies

This course is for students interested in developing a more solid understanding of the science behind performance enhancement. It draws from many disciplines, including physics, anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, kinesiology and computer science, as it...

Science Technology Profit in Societies
Integrated Studies

In this course we will examine the interrelation of science and social progress. As we will see, legal and governing systems are inextricably linked to scientific progress, and science is a catalyst for social change. Profit and fortune seeking is a common...

Social Innovation
Integrated Studies

Social innovation is often defined as the creative pursuit of solutions to social or environmental problems. In this course, students will spend the first half of the term exploring and discussing case studies of social innovation projects. These case...

Design Thinking: Creative Workshop
Integrated Studies

Design thinking is a problem-solving process that has led to many innovations in fields ranging from medical products, to engineering, to education, and even to children’s toys. Some of the key ideas within the method are designing with a human-centered...

Research Methods: SPARC
Integrated Studies

This course teaches students how to use qualitative action research to investigate and improve culture, policy and practice. After learning the fundamentals of social scientific research, statistics and social theory, students design, complete and analyze a...

Bioethics
Integrated Studies

Humans’ capacity to alter their world at the biological level has risen to new heights in the past 50 years. With advanced technologies such as gene editing, cloning and stem cell research, medical procedures such as organ donation, abortion and IVF and...

World Seen Through a Daily Newspaper
Integrated Studies

The materials and issues of this course are derived from an intensive reading of the daily New York Times. Students track various geopolitical, economic and social issues as they are reported in the newspaper during the course of the term. Class time is...

Human Rights
Integrated Studies

“An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.” – Montesquieu In this course we will examine the origins of ideas about human rights as well as those documents, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that define...