OUTLINE: New General education Curriculum

(10-13 classes, total)

Part A: Core:  (2 courses)

1. First Year Preceptorial

2. Sophomore Seminar 

Part B: Distribution requirements: (8 courses)

1. One (1) Social Sciences course: this category includes: psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, economics, and political science.

2. Two (2) Humanities courses (includes studio and performing arts courses), one of which must be a literature course

3. Two (2) courses in Linguistic and Cultural Competency.  This requirement can be satisfied in the following ways:

• a sequence of two courses in one foreign language at level 101 or higher

• term aboard courses that deal with a cultural tradition outside the US

• two courses designated LCC

4. Three (3) courses in quantitative and mathematical reasoning (QMR), natural and applied science, engineering, and the impact of science and technology on society (S/T).

• one course in natural sciences, with lab

• one course in quantitative and mathematical reasoning (QMR): includes courses in math or those offered in a number of departments, listed under QMR  GenEd

• one a course selected from the following categories:

1. same as in first bullet, but need not have a lab

2. a course from engineering (includes CS), to foster understanding of technology

3. a team-taught ID course (including at least one faculty from Div 3 or 4), with significant science or engineering content, about the impact of science and/or technology on the human world: includes Converging technologies courses listed as CT GenEd.

Part C: Making Connections across Disciplines (3 courses)

Click here for a list of Clusters and their component courses.

Prompts awareness of interdisciplinary connections by requiring students to take 3 courses in an approved cluster, from at least 2 different departments.    Possibilities would include 3 courses in any of the existing ID programs and/or clusters of courses proposed by faculty groups and approved by the General Education Board such as “Ancient studies,” “Globalization,” or “Media Studies.” The committee envisions that the list of approved clusters would change over time with new clusters being proposed and older ones, if no longer a focus of interest, disappearing over time.