Location: Humanities 213
Contacts: Jennifer Groscup ([email protected]) - Director of Core
YouYoung Kang ([email protected]) - Assistant Director of Core
Corey Tazarra ([email protected]) - Director of Core Reconstructing Committee
The Core Curriculum in Interdisciplinary Humanities will be a central part of your experience at Scripps College. The Core is designed to introduce you via interdisciplinary study to some of the major debates and concepts that have shaped the modern world. The first semester of Core is a broad foundational course in which students and faculty examine contemporary issues and debates through a historical lens. Ultimately this course will serve as an introduction to contemporary humanistic practice.
In the Spring of 2022, the Core restructuring committee was established to address issues with the curriculum that students and faculty had previously identified, mainly concerning Core I. The committee consisted of 14 representatives, including previous Core faculty and staff, along with student representatives. The student subcommittee was led by writing professor Adam Novy. After two years of deliberations, the committee decided to change the program’s fundamental structure and academic approach. The Core Program starting in the Fall 2025 semester will be a two-course sequence. There will not be a course like the current Core I where the content is the same for the entire first-year class.
The current Core curriculum as of spring 2024 is the following:
Core I
During the first semester, all first-year students take Core I which combines lectures with small group discussion. Team-taught by 15-18 faculty members drawn from each of the College’s academic divisions (arts, letters, natural sciences, and social sciences.), Core I is unified by a single syllabus and a particular focus that is approached from multiple perspectives.
Core II
Core II follows in the spring semester. Students continue with a sharper focus—and through a variety of course offerings—the interdisciplinary investigations begun in Core I. Core II courses are taught by a professor with interdisciplinary research interests and may be team-taught by faculty whose research interests make for fresh dialogue.
Core III
Core III is taken the fall semester of students’ sophomore year. Here, students engage in innovative and collaborative projects with others in Core III, and dive into individualized, self-directed research with professors in a small, seminar-style course. The work students complete in Core III culminates in a self-designed project where they delve into a particular topic of interest.
Courses in Core Curriculum could be found here.
Contacts: Jennifer Groscup ([email protected]) - Director of Core
YouYoung Kang ([email protected]) - Assistant Director of Core
Corey Tazarra ([email protected]) - Director of Core Reconstructing Committee
The Core Curriculum in Interdisciplinary Humanities will be a central part of your experience at Scripps College. The Core is designed to introduce you via interdisciplinary study to some of the major debates and concepts that have shaped the modern world. The first semester of Core is a broad foundational course in which students and faculty examine contemporary issues and debates through a historical lens. Ultimately this course will serve as an introduction to contemporary humanistic practice.
In the Spring of 2022, the Core restructuring committee was established to address issues with the curriculum that students and faculty had previously identified, mainly concerning Core I. The committee consisted of 14 representatives, including previous Core faculty and staff, along with student representatives. The student subcommittee was led by writing professor Adam Novy. After two years of deliberations, the committee decided to change the program’s fundamental structure and academic approach. The Core Program starting in the Fall 2025 semester will be a two-course sequence. There will not be a course like the current Core I where the content is the same for the entire first-year class.
The current Core curriculum as of spring 2024 is the following:
Core I
During the first semester, all first-year students take Core I which combines lectures with small group discussion. Team-taught by 15-18 faculty members drawn from each of the College’s academic divisions (arts, letters, natural sciences, and social sciences.), Core I is unified by a single syllabus and a particular focus that is approached from multiple perspectives.
Core II
Core II follows in the spring semester. Students continue with a sharper focus—and through a variety of course offerings—the interdisciplinary investigations begun in Core I. Core II courses are taught by a professor with interdisciplinary research interests and may be team-taught by faculty whose research interests make for fresh dialogue.
Core III
Core III is taken the fall semester of students’ sophomore year. Here, students engage in innovative and collaborative projects with others in Core III, and dive into individualized, self-directed research with professors in a small, seminar-style course. The work students complete in Core III culminates in a self-designed project where they delve into a particular topic of interest.
Courses in Core Curriculum could be found here.
