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CORE CURRICULUM INTRODUCTION

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All students at King’s College, regardless of their individual majors, participate in the Core
CORE CURRICULUM Curriculum, a set of courses and experiences designed to help students develop the intellectual
maturity and moral strength to lead purposeful, meaningful lives. As the name suggests, the Core is
CORE Introduction central to a King’s liberal arts education in the Catholic tradition.

CORE Structure
CORE Courses and Contacts
CORE Goals and Outcomes
The Core Curriculum has two basic aims: foundational, in service of students’ majors and professional
programs; and formative, in service of students’ lives more broadly, beyond any one discipline or any
one profession. As an integrated curriculum, the Core is an expression of the College’s shared
mission to be a community of learning, mindful of life’s great questions of meaning and purpose.
Concretely, the Core helps students develop foundational skills and competencies that majors and
professional programs build upon. These include written and oral communication, quantitative
reasoning, critical inquiry and analysis, technological competency, and information literacy.

The Core also fosters in our students intellectual virtues such as curiosity, open-mindedness,
creativity, perseverance, and independent thinking. Ideally, our graduates consequently
demonstrate tolerance for ambiguity and diversity of opinion and thought. They solve problems
imaginatively, engage and learn from perspectives and experiences di"erent from their own, and are
con#dent in what they know while recognizing that they always have much to learn.

Finally, the Core creates opportunities for students’ cultural, moral, and spiritual formation. Here the
Core most clearly re$ects King’s distinctive mission as a Holy Cross college. King’s aims to graduate
students who are versed in the Catholic intellectual and social justice traditions; who are pro#cient in
recognizing, formulating, and addressing matters of moral signi#cance and concern; who are
sensitive to the scope and complexity of human experience, emotion, and expression; who have
contemplated the #ndings and studied the methods of the natural and social sciences; and who are
prepared and disposed to mobilize their talents and skills as global citizens in service of the common
good.

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