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The Benefits

  • While we believe that all students can experience the benefits listed previously through their education at Point Loma, this program intentionally focuses on these benefits in the student's first semester of college in a way not possible by taking the courses as individual classes.

  • Rather than experiencing these as five separate classes, as all non-ISF students do, the program is specifically designed to use a cross-disciplinary approach that allows them to identify and discuss issues at the interface of these disciplines. By approaching these issues from a variety of angles, students are challenged to critically integrate their studies and everyday lives.

  • Activities, assignments and group discussions are specifically designed to foster this type of integration. As students practice integration in ISF, they prepare a framework for more effective learning throughout their college career.