1.Liberal Arts Core Curriculum Revised by vote of the faculty in spring 2009, the Liberal Arts Core Curriculum consists of four required interdisciplinary components: Legacies of the Ancient World, Challenges of Modernity, Scientific Perspectives on the World, and Communities and Identities. Students are also required to take one Global Engagements (GE) course drawn from departments and programs across the University, and two courses from each of the Areas of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression; Social Relations, Institutions, and Agents; and Natural Sciences and Mathematics. A course taken to fulfill GE credit may also fulfill an Area of Inquiry Requirement. A fuller description of the Liberal Arts Core Curriculum Program may be found in the Catalogue,.
Colgate’s Core Curriculum continues to be an important part of the liberal arts curriculum, and faculty members coming to Colgate can expect to participate in the program. The Liberal Arts Core Curriculum is administered by the Division of University Studies.
2.First-Year Seminars One of the courses every first-year student takes during the fall term is the first-year seminar, designed to combine exploration of an academic subject with the opportunity for developing a closer student-faculty relationship than would otherwise be possible for students beginning their first term at Colgate. The seminars are normally capped at 18 students. The first-year seminar instructor becomes the student’s academic adviser for the first two years or until a student declares a major by the spring of the sophomore year (for more information on first-year student and sophomore advising, see Section III.J.4). Many first-year seminars are drawn from the core curriculum and satisfy a requirement within the liberal arts core curriculum. Other seminars serve as introductory departmental courses and count for concentration requirements, and still others fulfill Area of Inquiry requirements. Students receive a grade for the first-year seminar in the conventional manner.
Many members of the faculty teach in the first-year seminar program, since forty or so seminars are offered every fall. Because of the two-year advising responsibility, faculty members usually do not find it desirable to teach first-year seminars in consecutive years. Over a two- or three-year period, therefore, many continuing members of the faculty are involved in the first-year seminar program. Assignment of first-year seminar instructors is made by department chairs in consultation with members of their departments (see Section III.K.4.a).
The first-year seminar program is administered by the office of the dean of the faculty in coordination with the university studies division director.
3.Major/Minor Programs Department and program majors, as the name implies, are supervised by academic departments and interdisciplinary programs, with some, such as biology and romance languages, having more than one such program. The department of physical education does not offer a major. Specific requirements for each department and program majors may be found in the chapter on “Courses of Study” in the Colgate University Catalogue.
On rare occasions, students may also develop a topical major. Topical majors encompass more than one discipline. The various topical major programs are administered at the divisional level — Arts and Humanities, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and Social Sciences — although some topical majors cross divisional lines. Student topical major programs are approved by the respective division directors. Descriptions of the individual topical major programs, including the requirements for each, may be found in the “Undergraduate Program” and “Courses of Study” chapters in the Colgate University Catalogue.
A full description of University rules for all. Every department and nearly every program at Colgate offers an optional minor minor programs is found in the Catalogue.
March). At that time, Students must declare an official major in their fourth term, prior to course registration (typically mid ew faculty adviser who will advise the student for the next two years. In order to the department or program assigns a n declare a major or minor officially, students complete a Declaration of Major/Minor form (available in the Office of the r and the department chair or program director, and submit it to the Registrar), have it signed by the new faculty advise .registrar. Students may elect to have a single major, a double major, or a major and a minor