The Core Curriculum attracts students who value liberal education, intellectual friendship, and close contact with talented and committed faculty. It integrates the disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences to explore some of the most challenging and profound ideas we face as human beings. The goal is to discover what the greatest works throughout the ages have to say to us here, right now—to empower the mind and to deepen what Confucius calls human-heartedness. Core students study classics of the Western and Eastern traditions in small seminars taught by full-time faculty. Core classes emphasize discussion and the development of critical skills in thinking and writing, and are complemented by lectures from some of the University's most outstanding scholars.

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