Values-Based Learning

The Principled Problem Solving Experience (PPSE) minor is an issues-based teaching and learning community that combines traditional coursework and hands-on learning across disciplines to address complex social issues through the lens of Guilford’s Core Values.

Each PPSE topic is developed by a faculty team to help students engage a specific problem in a sustained and intentional manner. It includes required courses, skills development and hands-on learning such as an internship, fieldwork, travel seminar, project or other non-traditional learning opportunity related to the PPSE topic.

While the current topic of the PPSE minor is Every Campus a Refuge, an initiative that mobilizes college campuses to provide housing and other assistance to refugees, PPSE topics and learning communities regularly rotate and change. Past PPSE minors have explored such topics as ethical leadership.

With the understanding that multiple perspectives are necessary for seeking solutions, the Principled Problem Solving Experience minor sharpens students’ critical thinking and communication skills and prepares them to work collaboratively to address significant issues.