The Providence College Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar (IFS) brings together up to eight faculty members from across the disciplines on campus in a collaborative teaching and learning experience each year. Participants devote an entire semester to a multidisciplinary and multidimensional study of a particular theme.

2013 IFS Theme:  Justice

Application deadline is April 20, 2012.

IFS Program Summary and Application Guidelines

2012: Blood 

Joan Branham (Seminar Leader) Art and Art History
Kathleen Cornely Chemistry and Biochemistry
Chard deNiord English
Ian Christopher Levy Theology
Patrick Macfarlane Philosophy
Jane Lunin Perel English and Women’s Studies
Charles Toth  Biology

Previous IFS Themes and Participants:

Bruce Graver (Seminar Leader) English
Elisabeth Arevalo Biology
Helen Caldwell Marketing
Peter Costello Philosophy
Matthew Cuddeback Philosophy
Sang Woo Kang Music
Edgar Mejia Foreign Language Studies
Eric Sung Art and Art History

2009: Are We Free?

Deborah Johnson (Seminar Leader) Art and Art History
Christopher Arroyo Philosophy
Maia Bailey Biology
Lydia Barovero Foreign Language Studies
Dana Dillon Theology
Anthony Esolen English
Robert Hackey Health Policy & Management
William Hudson Political Science

2008: Color

Charlotte O'Kelly (Seminar Leader) Sociology
James Baker Art and Art History
Deidre Bird Marketing
Laura Landen Philosophy
Stephen Mecca Engineering/Physics/Systems
Carmen Rolón Secondary Education
Ray Sickinger History/Public and Community Service

2007: Being Human

Joseph Torchia, O.P. (Seminar Leader) Philosophy
Nicanor Austriaco, O.P. Biology
Louis A. Beaubien Management
Deborah P. Goessling Elementary/Special Education
Paul L. Gondreau Theology
Susan K. McCarthy Political Science
Thomas F. Strasser Art and Art History
Tuire M. Valkeakari English