Harvey Mudd Faculty Approves New Core
May 29, 2020Share story
On May 8, 2020 the faculty voted to overwhelmingly approve a new Core curriculum, Four Courses with Optional Electivity.
This curriculum allows students to take four courses (plus a lab) throughout the Core without the need to overload during the Core, nor in subsequent semesters. It also allows students to take five courses beginning in the second semester, although this is not required to satisfy graduation or major requirements.聽Details of the new curriculum can be found here: hmc.edu/core-implementation.
One feature to highlight in this curriculum is the presence of an 鈥渋mpact鈥� course, which all students will take in their fourth semester. 聽We describe it as an 鈥渋mpact” course with a nod to the language in our Mission Statement: 鈥�…with a clear understanding of the impact of their work on society.鈥澛犅燱hile the particular nature of this course is聽still being developed, it is likely that it will focus, at least in the near term, on aspects of climate change.
We look forward to begin the rollout out this new curriculum in the fall of 2021 or 2022; the timing will be determined in聽part by the ongoing pandemic.
Tom Donnelly
Chair of the Faculty
Professor of Physics