Core Courses
Burlington College emphasizes interdisciplinary study as a way for students to experience the major modes of human learning. The academic disciplines provide illuminating frameworks for understanding the world, but can also create artificial boundaries that limit knowledge. Through the Core Curriculum, students study within and across disciplinary boundaries, while strengthening their skills as writers, speakers, and thinkers and considering ethical questions.
Our general education goals can largely be fulfilled through the Core Curriculum, and all students are required to take a variety of these courses (see A.A. Requirements and B.A. Requirements for details). Upper-level Core Courses are often cross-listed with the majors and fulfill major goals.
