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Exploration and Discovery (8 semester credits)
Exploration and Discovery, a two-semester requirement for all first-year students, provides a substantially common experience. This innovative yearlong course seeks to ground students in humanity's enduring questions and to model the intellect's journey outward from these questions into today's diverse world of ideas. Primary and secondary sources, small-class discussion, and keynote lectures forge a shared intellectual culture between professors and students, who together analyze works and topics of lasting significance in the liberal arts tradition. Exploration and Discovery thereby provides students with a vital foundation for developing the informed and complex perspectives they will need in our changing modern world. In addition, this course offers students numerous opportunities to develop and hone their skills in critical thinking, reading and writing, conducting independent research, and effective speaking and listening.
Credits for this course may not be applied toward the fulfillment of any other General Education or major or minor requirement. Students normally may not withdraw from this course.
(See course descriptions under Core in the Programs of Study section in this catalog.)