Academics · Alderwick College
Core Curriculum
A common practice of inquiry across every Alderwick degree.
Twelve courses. A wider conversation.
The 36-credit shared core places writing and speaking beside quantitative reasoning, scientific inquiry, history, literature, ethics and public life. It gives students a language for comparing how different disciplines approach a question.
Courses are distributed through the first three years in the published sample plans. A writing project in one year can become a more independent research task in the next.
The shared courses
| Code | Course | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| WRIT101 | Writing & Inquiry | 3 |
| COMM105 | Speaking & Listening | 3 |
| PHIL110 | Questions of Knowledge | 3 |
| HIST120 | Histories of Place | 3 |
| WRIT201 | Research Writing | 3 |
| LIT130 | Reading Lives | 3 |
| ARTS105 | Arts in Context | 3 |
| QUAN105 | Quantitative Reasoning | 3 |
| SCIE105 | Scientific Inquiry | 3 |
| CIVI120 | Community & Public Life | 3 |
| ETHI210 | Ethics in Practice | 3 |
| GLBL150 | Worlds in Conversation | 3 |
How it fits
Core credits are counted separately from major credits in the published plans. Breadth electives add study outside the major division; free electives allow additional exploration. Your adviser helps you choose an order that keeps the degree on track.