Core Curriculum

"Like archers, if we have a target to aim at, won't we be more likely to hit upon what we've got to do?" - Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

Just as it was 35 years ago, Core Curriculum's shared undertaking is to translate the tradition of transformative ideas and books into important discussions and conversations that meet the challenge of our present moment. Core students continue to read and reflect on the same books that you read when you were in the program.

In past years, Core’s Alumni Fund has supported our commitment to experiential learning and community by supporting student excursions in Boston, New York, Florence and London as well as a first-year book gift from Core Alumni—You!

SPONSOR-A-BOOK
This year, we are asking you to SPONSOR-A-BOOK for a Core Student. The CAS division that ends the day with the most individual participants will receive bonus funds. When you donate $5 or more, your gift counts towards Core’s challenge. Every gift helps us build up the lending library shelf of Core books to make sure that all students have a book in hand in the classroom.

• $100 will help us buy a semester of first-year humanities books for the shelf!
• $54 will buy all the dramas we read in Core (Cherry Orchard, Hamlet, Faust, and more)
• $20 for The Odyssey (CC101)
• $16 for Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (CC102)
• $10 for The Bhagavad Gita (CC102)
• $5 will contribute toward a book on the Core shelf such as The Analects, Paradise Lost, or Inferno.

Help us introduce a new generation of Core scholars to our program, and to encourage a life-long habit of reading, reflecting, and building community through books.

Once again, we are thankful to Liz Jones-Dilworth (CAS'02) and the Core Alumni Council. The first $6,500 raised will be matched dollar-for dollar. We thank her and the council for their continued support of the program.