Cardinal Core Curriculum

Courses in this area promote a critical self-awareness of individuals’ roles and responsibilities within communities by examining how people interact with each other and in groups.

Courses in this area encourage students to reflect on their roles within a diverse society through exploration of the multiple ways we reason, engage with, document, and creatively represent or express the range of human experience.

Courses in this area explore the scientific concepts, models, and methods necessary to study natural phenomena that affect the global community.

Courses in this area develop and utilize quantitative skills to address practical problems in order to better understand the world.

Courses in this area explore communities, histories, and institutions within the United States to engage students in critical examination of their roles in American society.

Courses in this area explore communities, histories, and institutions outside the United States to engage students in critical examination of their roles in a global society.