College Core Curriculum

In the College of Arts and Sciences, we have designed a curriculum that:

• provides you with the foundational preparation for a lifetime of critical thinking and civic engagement;

• offers you opportunities for intellectual exploration and in-depth study in an academic discipline;

• prepares you for meaningful involvement with a rapidly changing world characterized by diverse individual perspectives, globalization and multi-cultural interactions, and scientific/technological innovation; and

• provides you with opportunities to build and enhance your abilities to understand the social and natural worlds around them; to analyze, evaluate, and integrate the information available to you; and to synthesize and communicate thought effectively.

Intellectual Skills	Tools for Critical Engagement	Disciplinary Perspectives	Disciplinary Depth
Foundation Seminar Lab Science Foreign Language* Integrated Perspectives*	Diversity in the U.S. Environmental Connections Global Connections Quantitative Reasoning*	(2 from each division; one course must meet each set of divisional learning goals)   Arts & Humanities Natural Sciences & Mathematics Social Sciences	The Major(s) Academic Conventions of Writing, Speaking, and Information Literacy Culminating Experience

 

* Not required for the Class of 2014

Each of the Tools for Critical Engagement categories may also count as a course within the Disciplinary Perspectives categories, but not the Disciplinary Perspectives course(s) used to meet the CCC learning goals.

Courses satisfying major requirements may satisfy other requirements.