Curriculum Resources

Core Curriculum

A liberal education prepares you to deal with a rapidly changing world.  It prepares you for leadership and responsibility in the vocational, social, and personal areas of your life.  It enables you to keep on learning throughout your life.  It is also bigger than the sum of its parts.  General education, major, and elective courses; internship, volunteer, and other learning experiences; the social milieu of the campus -- all come together to give you a fuller, more integrated experience.

The Core Curriculum is one part of this education and is designed to help you meet the Core’s learning goals:

• learn how to do things to gain new knowledge,
• use language effectively,
• handle quantitative data,
• appreciate the creative arts,
• understand the nature of scientific inquiry and the impact of  technology on society, the history and culture of the United States and of other societies, the differences between individual and communal needs, and the many ways in which race and racism affect all of us.  

Each Core area focuses on one of these goals, but courses and experiences in other Core areas and in the majors build upon and reinforce Core skills and knowledge.

Click here for a complete description of the Core Curriculum.

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Core Update

Core Transfers

Description of Core Areas