The Bradley Core Curriculum
Bradley’s Core Curriculum (BCC) is a set of twelve diverse courses required of every student at the university, courses selected from eight categories that we call “Areas of Inquiry.” These broad categories include Communication, Fine Arts, Global Perspectives, Humanities, Multidisciplinary Integration, Natural Sciences, Quantitative Reasoning, and Social and Behavioral Sciences.
In addition to the Areas of Inquiry, the full Core Curriculum experience includes a set of two “Core Practices”: Writing Intensive (WI) courses and Experiential Learning (EL) Experiences. To learn about these Core Practices in more detail, please visit our Core Practices page.
The goal of the Bradley Core Curriculum is to expose all students to a range of knowledge, skills and perspectives that will prepare them for further learning and help facilitate their success and fulfillment in a changing, complex world. In essence, the Bradley Core Curriculum lays the foundation for a lifetime of intellectual development.
More specifically, the Bradley Core Curriculum advances Lydia Moss Bradley’s intent that the university “furnish its students with the means of living an independent, industrious and useful life,” by equipping them with a common set of attributes, understandings and tools to:
CORE LEARNING OUTCOMES
The Bradley Core Curriculum was designed to help students achieve specific Core Learning Outcomes that span all aspects of the Bradley experience.
CORE VALUES
The Bradley Core Curriculum is grounded in a set of fundamental perspectives, Core Values, that lie at the heart of the university’s scholarly enterprise.
