Core Curriculum Learning Outcomes

The Caltech Core Curriculum provides:

Substantive experience in problem solving, collaboration, and communication.

Students will be able to:

• Manage increasing academic challenges while developing resilience and confidence.
• Develop and satisfy their intellectual curiosity.
• Collaborate effectively and ethically, recognizing diverse models of academic collaboration.
• Communicate to a range of audiences through a variety of media.

A broad and rigorous foundation in the sciences.

Students will be able to:

• Demonstrate understanding of foundational concepts from the sciences.
• Use disciplinary thinking, analytical skills and a range of methods in the sciences.
• Apply their knowledge and skills to diverse problems within and across disciplines.

Significant study in the humanities and social sciences.

Students will be able to:

• Explore and expand upon learning in fields beyond intended areas of specialization.
• Appreciate and understand the contributions of the humanities, social sciences, and arts to human endeavors.
• Engage in informed analysis of cultural, political, and economic issues.