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First-Year Seminars (FSEMs) and the Living and Learning Workshop (LLW) introduce students to a range of liberal arts topics, skills, and ways of learning — connecting FSEM classes to residential life.

Core Communities helps students better understand how distinctive communities and cultures work. These multidisciplinary courses examine global phenomena such as capitalism, religions, colonialism, political ideologies, and new technologies, among many others. These courses can focus on a single nation or smaller, distinct communities.

Core Conversations is a course focused on five shared texts — defined broadly to include diverse intellectual and creative expressions across cultures and time periods — to spark wide-ranging discussions grounded in the past and engaged with the present.

Core Sciences investigates the scientific process and the relationship between science and society while engaging with the histories and social differences that can be and have been associated with science.

Students also take courses emphasizing five Liberal Arts Practices: The Process of Writing, Quantitative and Algorithmic Reasoning, Language Study, Confronting Collective Challenges, and Artistic Practice and Interpretation.

Students take one course from each of three Areas of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression, Social Relations, Institutions, and Agents, and Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

Physical Education and Wellness promotes physical, mental, social, and environmental well-being. Students take two or more courses in the Division of Physical Education, Recreation, and Athletics.

The following requirements apply to students who entered ���߲ݴ�ý in fall 2023 or later.

• First-Year Seminars and the Living and Learning Workshop: First-year students must enroll in an FSEM and the Living and Learning Workshop.
• Fulfilling the Core Components: must successfully complete Core Communities, Core Conversations, and Core Sciences.
• Fulfilling the Liberal Arts Practices and Areas of Inquiry: students must successfully complete one course in each of the three Areas of Inquiry plus one course in each of the five Liberal Arts Practices. In total, these must come to at least seven courses, from at least six different departments or programs. Students may complete these requirements in any order, at any point during their progress toward a degree.
  • Although a course may carry multiple tags, a student may not fulfill multiple designations through a single course. The following exceptions apply:
    • Students may double-count their Process of Writing Practice course to also fulfill one Liberal Arts Practices or Areas of Inquiry requirement.
      • Students may double-count the FSEM to fulfill one Core Component or any Liberal Arts Practice or Area of Inquiry requirement except their Process of Writing course.
• Fulfilling Physical Education and Wellness: Students are required to complete two units
• Optional: Distinction Seminar in the Liberal Arts Core