How the “Mind” Core sequence teaches advanced learning habits

By Andy Brown

Since 1931, all students in the College at UChicago have passed through an iteration of the Core Curriculum. 

The Core, broadly defined, is a challenging, transformative academic program that prepares UChicago students for a lifetime of enriching inquiry. 

More specifically, it is a series of class sequences (courses that span three academic quarters) separated into seven academic disciplines. Students must take and complete some combination of class sequences from each of these disciplines within their first two years of study in the College. 

However, the Core amounts to much more than boxes UChicago students check on their way to a diploma – it is the foundation of a student’s academic journey through the College. 

Over the next several months, the College will be examining the Core curriculum through a series of case studies, each of which will cover an individual course sequence and how it contributes to students’ broader intellectual journeys, beyond what they learn in their classrooms.

The question we seek to answer today is: In what ways does the Core curriculum teach and reinforce new learning habits?

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