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 you; 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


Integrated Perspectives*


Foreign Language

 

Diversity in the U.S.


Global Connections


Environmental 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


 

* Required for the Class of 2018 and beyond

One course from 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. AP and IB credits may only be used to fulfill requirements that are not linked to learning goals. Those credits transferred from other institutions may be used to fulfill requirements with or without learning goals only when approved by the appropri­ate department chair or the coordinator of the CCC. Any course that fulfills a College Core Curriculum requirement can count toward a major or minor or to fulfill the Writing Requirement.

Courses satisfying major requirements may satisfy other requirements.