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Interdisciplinary Solutions for Social Impact
Inaugurated in 2020, the Interdisciplinary Solutions for Social Impact (ISSI) program brings together a disciplinarily diverse group of faculty and students to consider and act on wicked problems in the real world. ISSI consists of a collaborative workshop in the fall and faculty-led, team-taught lab spaces in the spring, all centered around a common theme. For 2022-23, the theme is Impacting Inequality.
Meet the faculty
Inequalities and Education
- David Garcia, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College
- Brendan O’Connor, School of Transborder Studies
Health, Communities and Wellbeing
- Felipe Castro, Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation
- Dawn Gilpin, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
ISSI Labs
The ISSI Labs meet each spring semester. They are combined as Applied Project (593) or Special Topics (598) courses under prefixes representing the disciplines of participating faculty. In spring 2023, under the theme of "Impacting Inequality," we're offering the following labs:
Inequalities + Education
GRD 593/TSS 593/EPA 593 (#25510/25928/36425)
Session C: 1/9/23 through 4/28/23
Tuesday, 3:00 – 5:45 PM
Tempe campus (Hybrid)
3 units
Inequalities + Wellbeing
GRD 593/NUR 593 (#36593/36417)
Session C: 1/9/23 through 4/28/23
Wednesday, 3:00 – 5:45 p.m.
Tempe campus (Hybrid)
3 units
Learn more about ISSI
Watch recordings from our Fall 2021 workshop below:
ISSI overview and Q+A (YouTube)
ISSI overview slide presentation (PDF)
ISSI Spring 22 labs: Inequality + Education breakout session (YouTube)
ISSI Spring 22 labs: Inequality + Wellbeing breakout session (YouTube)
Watch past lectures from the Interdisciplinary Solutions web series below:
Why transdisciplinarity? (YouTube)
Mapping a local ecology: Building your own stakeholder map (YouTube)
Teaching in an interdisciplinary space: Being comfortable with being uncomfortable (YouTube)
Engaging school partners in an interdisciplinary setting (YouTube)
Questions about ISSI in general or how the labs run?
Reach out to us at issi@asu.edu.