CORE
Left photos above: Kanata Kawasaki ’25
It is one of SUA’s signature experiences, The goals of the Core sequence – Core a rigorous introduction to university-level 1 is followed by Core 2 in the spring of intellectual work during which first-year students’ second year – are ambitious. students delve into the works of some of Classes are designed to help students humanity’s most profound thinkers and explore the commonalities and grapple with life’s most vexing questions. differences of the human experience Core 1 is a three-week, intensive seminar from multiple perspectives, and develop that both faculty and students describe critical thinking skills to evaluate ideas in as a consuming, eye-opening, and relation to their own lives. rewarding experience. “Core is a point of departure, helping a With each section limited to 12 students, student take a pen and begin to draw faculty members from across disciplines a map of the world of thought, find guide students through selections from themselves on that map, and find others seminal texts from around the globe. in relation to themselves,” said John Pavel Professors choose readings from works Kehlen, professor of Asian literature, who such as Confucius’ The Analects, Plato’s has been teaching Core sections since Republic, Laozi’s Tao Te Ching, and 2003. “We don’t pretend we will get Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, and may answers, but asking the questions is the augment those with additional works first step to what I call becoming a liberal artist.” drawn from their own expertise.
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