College Core Curriculum Overview

This curriculum is based on an interrelated set of principles that emphasize intellectual and practical skills, transferable tools for integrative learning, and disciplinary perspectives. It recognizes writing, oral communication, and information literacy as central tools for learning and disseminating new knowledge that permeate the entirety of the learning experience. The curriculum is intended to help students understand the synergistic and complementary relationship among academic disciplines and their varied approaches to describing, analyzing, comprehending, interpreting, and critiquing a range of phenomena in both human cultures and the physical and natural world. In doing so, it will prepare students to apply the skills, knowledge and sense of responsibility they have gained to new settings and complex problems as engaged citizens in an interconnected world.

Although students will satisfy the requirements in different ways, each student must devise a program in accordance with the College Core Curriculum and the University Writing Requirement. AP credit will not count toward any of the requirements that have defined learning goals. AP courses may count for Disciplinary Perspectives courses without defined learning goals.

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*