The Kilachand Curriculum

The first year introduces students to academic disciplines and interdisciplinary fields and focuses on helping them develop the crucial skills of critical and creative thinking and college-level writing.

Seminars

First-year seminars engage students in scholarly research and creativity through an intensive look at topics, problems, and questions in various disciplines and interdisciplinary areas.

Kilachand offers an array of seminars each semester.

Writing Studios

Students hone their skills with textual analysis, research, composition, and revision through small writing studios and one-on-one tutorials with faculty while participating in cultural events that serve as prompts for papers.

KHC ST 111: Writing Studio I 

KHC ST 112: Writing Studio II

In the second and third years, students explore a variety of research methods and scholarly and practical approaches to fundamental problems facing human society that are best understood in an interdisciplinary context.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Global Challenges

These team-taught courses invite students to discuss and propose solutions to major global challenges, from climate change to forced displacement to political systems. Opportunities for experiential learning are connected to the curriculum, allowing students to explore the impact of their work outside of the classroom.

KHC HC 301: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Global Challenges I

KHC HC 302: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Global Challenges II

Epistemologies and the Process of Inquiry

With a focus on provocative topics such as democratic elections, gun violence, or water politics, these courses explore what constitutes knowledge, evidence, and data in a variety of fields. Working in interdisciplinary teams, students ask crucial questions and imagine the research projects that might answer them.

KHC HC 401: Epistemologies and the Process of Inquiry

Keystone Proposal Workshop

Students learn how to design a research and/or creative project and pitch their ideas to their workshop colleagues as they formulate proposals for the Keystone Projects they will complete in their senior year.

KHC HC 451: Kilachand Keystone Proposal Workshop

In the fourth year, Kilachand provides the space and resources for students to engage in their own creative and intellectual pursuits and then share their work with a variety of audiences.

Keystone Project

Students follow a number of pathways to complete a year-long Keystone Project in their chosen fields under the mentorship of a project advisor.

Keystone Project Information and Resources

Senior Seminars

In the senior seminars, students and faculty discuss how to live engaged and fulfilling lives within and beyond the university at a transitional moment in students’ personal experiences. The seminars also support students as they complete their Keystone Projects and prepare for the Keystone Symposium.

KHC HC 501: People in Process: Lives & Works

KHC HC 502: People in Process: Choice & Change – Writing Intensive

KHC HC512: People in Process: Choice & Change – Oral/Signed Communication

KHC HC522: People in Process: Choice & Chance – Digital/Multimedia Expression

All Kilachand courses fulfill BU Hub requirements. The Kilachand curriculum is designed to provide breadth across the Hub areas, allowing Kilachand students to satisfy a majority of the BU Hub through the Kilachand curriculum. Remaining BU Hub requirements will be satisfied from a range of available courses within and outside the major or, in some cases, BU Hub cocurricular experiences.