What is the Core Curriculum?

What is the Core Curriculum?

Hillsdale College
Published on Aug 9, 2019

Imagine if you spent two years of your life immersed in the study of the greatest ideas that have ever been spoken, written, or created...
Imagine if you actually wrestled with these ideas, and allowed yourself to be shaped by them...
Would those years change your understanding of yourself? Of the world, and of others? Would they challenge your assumptions and beliefs? Would they affect the way you think, the choices you make, even the trajectory of your life?
We know, that's pretty lofty stuff. But it's exactly what Hillsdale's Core Curriculum is designed to do.
The Core Curriculum is the foundation of a liberal arts education at Hillsdale.
Throughout your first two years at Hillsdale, you'll read classical literature and contemplate human nature. You’ll debate timeless philosophical and theological traditions, and wrestle with the deepest questions in life.
You’ll learn the history, heritage, and design of our nation, and examine the foundational ideals of freedom and self-government.
And you’ll explore the rules, wonders, and design of our physical world.
These aren’t disconnected Gen Eds meant to make you “well rounded,” but a deep and systematic study of the most important things.
We believe that these interconnected disciplines that make up Hillsdale’s Core Curriculum, are worth studying for their own sake.
Because they are time-tested and universally relevant. Because they are good, true, and beautiful.
And because together, they create for us a window to our past, and the gateway to our future.