That kind of education prepares you to deal with a rapidly changing world. It prepares you for leade rship and responsibility in the vocational, social, and personal areas of your life. It enables you to keep learning throughout your life. Your major and everything else you experience at Temple will contribute to your liberal education, but the Core is a central part of it. Everyone either takes, transfers in, or tests out of College Composition, and takes or transfers in Intellectual Heritage.
Every major has a designated capstone writing course.
In the other Core areas, you may be free to choose from all the courses approved for each area, or your major may ask you to take particular ones. Ask your academic adviser about your major s requirements, and about any suggestions she or he has for Core courses that might be interesting o r useful to you. Make decisions that help make the Core work for you. Look at it as a series of opportunities for learning and growth rather than a set of annoying requirements. Use the Core to find out more about a field you think you want as your major, or in which you think you might want to work.