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The freshman curriculum is built around a series of 10-credit core courses that blend different disciplines and are built around a global theme.
A different faculty team—in classes with a student-to-faculty ratio of 25 to 1—will teach the course from a different academic perspective each quarter. Over the course of the year, you meet a full range of general requirements but remain focused on the same global theme. You may earn credit in English and economics one quarter, then history and sociology the next. But throughout the year, discussion, lectures, reading, writing and project assignments will focus on the same, unifying theme designed to broaden your perspectives, not only about what you're studying, but also about the world in which you live.
You'll take your core courses with the same group of students throughout your first year. Within your core courses, you'll meet regularly in smaller groups, and you'll be able to choose a separate elective course each quarter. In this small, interdisciplinary learning environment, you'll really get to know your professors as well as the students in your classes.
Beyond the core curriculum, you will select each quarter from a range of elective courses that will allow you to explore and prepare for potential majors.
