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Core Interdisciplinary Connections

Connect your Core Curriculum courses across fields of knowledge and design an interdisciplinary pathway that deepens your knowledge and broadens your perspective.

What are Core Interdisciplinary Connections?

Through the Core Curriculum, you will examine some of the urgent issues that shape our world and impact our future. Engage with enduring questions, and develop critical thinking and career-ready skills needed to address the complex challenges of human society.

Connect your Core Curriculum courses through selecting thematically-related courses on interdisciplinary topics of current, global significance, with no extra requirements needed.

Learning Goals

In addition to achieving the Core Curriculum learning outcomes, Core Interdisciplinary Connections supports the following learning goals:

Thematic Depth: Pursue purposeful thematic pathways that connect a selection of your Core courses around a multidisciplinary theme or Big Question.
Interdisciplinarity: Approach themes through multiple disciplinary perspectives and develop enriched understanding through interconnected knowledge.
Global Connections: Deepen your awareness and appreciation of pressing global issues, and develop diversity of thought and cross-cultural competence.
Integration: Pose questions that go beyond the specifics of an issue to generate new ideas and solutions addressing broader societal contexts.
Career Readiness: Translate interdisciplinary learning into practical, transferable skills that prepare you for engagement in a wide range of professional and civic environments.

How it Works

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Take three secondary or capstone core courses from different departments within one Core Connections list on this page. At least one of the three courses must be a Core Capstone (outside the major).