Core Curriculum

As the heart of Colgate’s academic program, 文科核心课程(LACC)是大学共同的智力项目, 让学生接触到不同的学习领域，以及在整个课程中进行智力和创造性探索的模式，并进一步促进十大靠谱网赌平台对多样性的承诺, equity, and inclusion.

The Value of the Core

A great institution is a diverse institution. To foster deep understanding in a complex, 瞬息万变的世界，不同的民族和观点, 本课程要求学生和教师努力解决塑造知识的问题, experience, 实践跨越时间和空间，跨越部门和学科的界限. As a liberal arts college, 十大靠谱网赌平台努力向学生传达各种技能的价值，以及从各种角度审视自己的经历和条件的意愿，以及学习与自己不同的背景. Through these practices, the Core encourages lifelong learning, thoughtful citizenship, and inclusivity.

Overview of the Core Curriculum

文科核心课程(LACC)是围绕五个必要元素构建的.

1. First-Year Seminars and the Living and Learning Workshop

第一年的研讨会(FSEMs)和生活和学习研讨会(LLW)旨在向学生介绍各种文科主题, skills, and ways of learning. 每个FSEM队列都直接与构成住宅共享计划的生活和学习社区之一连接. LLW旨在教育整个学生，并建立一个具有良好适应和社会意识的学生的包容性社区.

Core Communities

这些多学科课程研究全球现象(资本主义)形成的包容和排斥模式, colonialism, political ideologies, religions, 以及其他许多新技术)来更好地理解社区生活意味着什么.

Sample Communities Courses

Core Conversations

本课程采用五套常用教材来促进广泛的对话, anchored in the past and directed toward the present. Core Conversations defines the term “text” expansively, 它不局限于书面作品，而是包括来自不同文化和时期的许多智力和创造性表达模式, including the distant past.

Core Sciences

这些课程探讨科学过程和科学与社会的关系，同时与历史接触, inequities, 或者社会差异可以并且已经与科学联系在一起.

Sample Sciences Courses

3. The Liberal Arts Practices

培养对广泛教育最重要的技能和思维习惯的掌握, 学生的课程强调五个文科实践:面对集体挑战, The Process of Writing, Quantitative and Algorithmic Reasoning, Language Study, and Artistic Practice and Interpretation

4. Areas of Inquiry

To foster breadth of learning, 学生在三个探究领域中各选一门课程:人类思想和表达, Social Relations, Institutions, and Agents, and Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

5. Physical Education and Wellness

To promote physical, mental, social, and environmental well-being, 学生在体育学部选修两门或两门以上的课程, Recreation, and Athletics.

Optional: Distinction Seminar in the Liberal Arts Core

特别积极的高年级学生有机会参加核心区别研讨会, 由两名教师组成的团队教授的跨学科顶点课程.

First-Year Seminars: First-year students must enroll in an FSEM.
Fulfilling the Core Components除了核心社区(或社区和身份)和核心科学(或科学观点)之外，学生还必须成功完成核心151和152课程。. Core Conversations可以代替Core 151或Core 152.
Fulfilling the Language Requirement学生可以通过以下三种方式之一来满足语言要求:
- 在进入十大靠谱网赌平台之前，在中学成功完成至少三年的外语或古典语言学习(通过第三级);
- 通过测试语言熟练程度(如.g.SAT外语或古典语言科目考试成绩达到580分以上);
- 在十大靠谱网赌平台成功完成一门外语或古典语言的学习，至少一个学期达到中级水平.
Fulfilling the Areas of Inquiry: Students must successfully complete two courses, in different departments or programs, in each of the three Areas of Inquiry.
Fulfilling Physical Education and Wellness: Students are required to complete two units
Optional: Distinction Seminar in the Liberal Arts Core

First-Year Seminars: First-year students must enroll in an FSEM.
Fulfilling the Core Components: Students will need three component courses. 除了核心社区(或社区和身份)和核心科学(或科学观点), they must successfully complete one of the following, 或两个，如果他们愿意:核心111(对话)或核心151(古代世界的遗产)或核心152(现代性的挑战). 第二门课程将计入毕业，但不符合要求.
Fulfilling the Language Requirement学生可以通过以下三种方式之一来满足语言要求:
- 在进入十大靠谱网赌平台之前，在中学成功完成至少三年的外语或古典语言学习(通过第三级);
- 通过测试语言熟练程度(如.g.SAT外语或古典语言科目考试成绩达到580分以上);
- 在十大靠谱网赌平台成功完成一门外语或古典语言的学习，至少一个学期达到中级水平.
Fulfilling the Areas of Inquiry: Students must successfully complete two courses, in different departments or programs, in each of the three Areas of Inquiry.
Fulfilling Physical Education and Wellness: Students are required to complete two units
Optional: Distinction Seminar in the Liberal Arts Core

First-Year Seminars and the Living and Learning Workshop一年级学生必须参加FSEM和生活与学习研讨会.
Fulfilling the Core Components:必须成功完成核心社区、核心对话和核心科学.
履行文科实践和调查领域学生必须成功完成三个探究领域中的每一个领域的一门课程，外加五个文科实践中的每一个领域的一门课程. 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, 学生不能通过一门课程完成多个指定. The following exceptions apply:
  - 学生可以重复计算他们的写作实践过程课程，以满足一个文科实践或探究领域的要求.
    - 学生可以重复计算FSEM来完成一个核心组成部分或任何文科实践或探究领域的要求，除了他们的写作过程课程.
Fulfilling Physical Education and Wellness: Students are required to complete two units
Optional: Distinction Seminar in the Liberal Arts Core