Core Curriculum/

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Core Curriculum or General Education Requirements: Many post-secondary schools have some type of core curriculum, or courses that all students must take prior to graduation. These are courses beyond those required by a student’s major or minor.

Individual requirements within a school’s core curriculum can be either very specific—e.g., “Freshman Writing Workshop”—or somewhat flexible—e.g., “an art or music class.”

At some schools, the core curriculum is purposely quite broad and requires the completion of courses in a variety disciplines. At other schools—such as those with one or very few departments—the core curriculum is indistinguishable from students’ major requirements.

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Annotated list of US colleges with Great books programs.





Colleges

With Great Books

Source: Collegeexpress


Biola University (La Mirada, CA): Torrey Honors Institute offers Great Books options.

Boston University (Boston, MA): An elective core curriculum is based on the Great Books.

Brock University (St. Catharines, Ontario, CAN): The Liberal Studies Program is oriented toward the Great Books.

Central Washington University (Ellensburg, WA): A Great Books program is part of the William O. Douglas Honors College.


Christendom College (Front Royal, VA): The core curriculum is based on the Great Books.


Clemson University (Clemson, SC): Great Works of Western Civilization is an undergraduate minor.


Columbia University (New York, NY): Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy is a year-long course.

Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec, CAN): The liberal arts college focuses on the Great Books.


Eastern University (St. Davids, PA): Templeton Honors College has a Great Books core.

Gutenberg College (Eugene, OR): The college features a broad-based Great Books curriculum.


Hillsdale College (Hillsdale, MI): The core curriculum includes Great Books courses.


Lawrence University (Appleton, WI): The freshman studies program focuses on the Great Books.

Lynchburg College (Lynchburg, VA): The Lynchburg College Symposium Readings Program revolves around the Great Books.


Magdalen College (Warner, NH): The curriculum is based on the Great Books.


Malaspina U (CAN): The liberal studies program focuses on the Great Books.


Mercer University (Macon, GA): The Great Books program is one of two general education tracks in the College of Liberal Arts.

Middle Tennessee State University (Murfreesboro, TN): A Great Books minor is available.


New Saint Andrews College (Moscow, ID): The curriculum is related to the classics and Great Books.


Northwestern State University of Louisiana (Natchitoches, LA): The Louisiana Scholars College combines Great Books-based courses with others.

Pepperdine University (Malibu, CA): Seaver College offers the Great Books colloquium as a four-course sequence on masterpieces of Western civilization.


Princeton University (Princeton, NJ): The Great Books are part of the program of freshman seminars in the residential colleges.


Quest University (Squamish, BC (CAN)): The required first-year core includes many features of a classic Great Books approach.


Saint Anselm College (Manchester, NH): A major is offered in liberal studies in the Great Books.


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Shimer College (Chicago, IL): One of the more extensive Great Books colleges, Shimer uses original source readings, rather than textbooks.


Southern Virginia University (Buena Vista, VA): The college offers a comprehensive liberal arts education based on the Great Books.

St. John's College (Annapolis, MD): St. John's is the model of the Great Books colleges. It features a four-year, nonelective curriculum in which students read, discuss, and write about the seminal works that have shaped the world.


St. John's College (Santa Fe, NM): St. John's is the model of the Great Books colleges. It features a four-year, nonelective curriculum in which students read, discuss, and write about the seminal works that have shaped the world.

St. Mary's College of California (Moraga, CA): The Integral Liberal Arts Program includes a Great Books emphasis.

St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN): The Great Conversation is an integrated sequence of five courses taken over two years.


Temple University (Philadelphia, PA): The Intellectual Heritage Program is a group of foundation courses required for students in the college of arts and sciences.

The College of Saints John Fisher & Thomas More (Fort Worth, TX): The college is based on a single Great Books focus.


Thomas Aquinas College (Santa Paula, CA): The college has a full Great Books curriculum. There are no majors or minors, no electives, and no specializations.


Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (Merrimack, NH): All students take a six-hour humanities course through the four years. Much of the learning is based on the Great Books. Students also are required to study Latin or Greek.

University of Chicago (Chicago, IL): The curriculum consists of a four-year sequence of Great Books readings.

University of Dallas (Irving, TX): Constantin College of Liberal Arts core curriculum offers a comprehensive Great Books curriculum.

University of North Texas (Denton, TX): The Great Books program is an interdisciplinary major in the college of arts and sciences.


University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN): The Program of Liberal Studies is a three-year, prescribed sequence of seminars and specialized courses--or tutorials--anchored in the Western and Catholic traditions.

University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI): Through the college of letters and science, the university offers a certificate program that is grounded in the Great Books.


Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT): The College of Letters is an interdisciplinary major program for the study of Western literature, history, and philosophy. It has the Great Books as its core.


Whitman College (Walla Walla, WA): The General Studies Program is a two-semester exploration of the formation and transformation of some western worldviews using the Great Books.



 

Core Curriculum

The great books are those books that are thought to constitute an essential foundation in the literature of Western culture. Specified sets of great books typically range from 100-150, though they differ according to purpose and context. For instance, some lists are built to be read by undergraduates in a college semester system (130 books, Torrey Honors Institute),[1] some are compiled to be sold as a single set of volumes (500 books, Mortimer Adler), while some lists aim at a thorough literary criticism (2,400 books, Harold Bloom).[2]

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According to AACU, FIrst year seminars and common Intellectual experiences are high impact educational practices:

First-Year Seminars and Experiences
Many schools now build into the curriculum first-year seminars or other programs that bring small groups of students together with faculty or staff on a regular basis. The highest-quality first-year experiences place a strong emphasis on critical inquiry, frequent writing, information literacy, collaborative learning, and other skills that develop students’ intellectual and practical competencies. First-year seminars can also involve students with cutting-edge questions in scholarship and with faculty members’ own research.

Common Intellectual Experiences
The older idea of a “core” curriculum has evolved into a variety of modern forms, such as a set of required common courses or a vertically organized general education program that includes advanced integrative studies and/or required participation in a learning community. These programs often combine broad themes—e.g., technology and society, global interdependence—with a variety of curricular and cocurricular options for students.

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