The Kilachand Curriculum
The Kilachand curriculum invites students to formulate and discuss questions of ethical, scientific, social, and aesthetic significance and share their conclusions with a broad audience. Through a combination of seminars, lectures, discussions, and experiential opportunities, students hone their creative and critical thinking skills and apply them to problems of contemporary relevance.
The First Year
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
During the first year, students take two seminars—one in the fall term, one in the spring term. 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 term.
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
The Second and Third Years
In the second and third years, students explore fundamental problems facing human society that are best understood in an interdisciplinary context. They also begin practical and creative planning for their senior year Keystone Projects.
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
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
Kilachand & The BU Hub
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 integration of Kilachand and major coursework. Remaining BU Hub requirements may be satisfied from a range of available electives within and outside the major, Hub interdisciplinary courses, or Hub cocurriculars.
Current students should visit the semester registration pages for current course topics.
Course Spotlight
HC 302: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Global Challenges – Forced Displacement
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