Integrated Core Experience (ICE)
The Integrated Core Experience (ICE), McIntire’s cutting-edge third-year core curriculum, has been carefully crafted to teach students how to integrate critical analytic, strategic, and behavioral skills to tackle real-world problems. Dynamic, interactive, and continuously updated to include crucial new subject matter on such pressing issues as globalization and sustainability, ICE prepares McIntire students to meet the challenges of today’s complex and rapidly changing world.
ICE is a two-semester program, composed of 12 credit hours in the fall semester and nine credit hours in the spring semester. For more detailed information about course content and a description of requirements, please consult the University of Virginia’s course catalog at www.virginia.edu/sis and the University of Virginia Undergraduate Record.
How ICE Works
- Students engage in an integrated series of six sessions of business theory and practice throughout a two-semester period, rather than taking separate core courses. Blocks of 40 students learn by working in small teams, as well as with faculty and corporate leaders, to solve real-world business problems.
- Professors team-teach in an interactive, rigorous seminar atmosphere. Course material is presented in an integrated, cross-functional manner, providing students with a deep knowledge of the complex interrelationships among different subject areas.
- World-class business leaders and practitioners keep students up-to-date with the most current business issues and practices through presentations, discussions, and guest-speaking/teaching engagements.
With an emphasis on teamwork, self-governance, and integrity, ICE prepares students to be business leaders and outstanding citizens.