LAS has a mechanism in place to meet these potential student needs. Cohesive Interdisciplinarity . Again, corporate and other critics of academe often chastize us for not offering students the ability to link fields. LAS, through its clusters and courses, offers interdisciplinarity to USU students. Faculty Development .
Faculty are learners too.
LAS, which one faculty member describes as 'the most interesting educational activity in my twenty-five year career,' offers faculty ways to learn about new areas and to teach on topics that their ordinary department assignments might not be able to support. The program does this in three ways. Its cluster courses are regular non- LAS department offerings, but their faculty meet periodically to ensure that they mesh cohesively. Its capstone courses offer faculty ways to offer students and themselves a culminating view of cluster themes. In sum, LAS features eight nationally recommended learning objectives.