Curriculum Each college has a particular focus and offers several sections of foundation seminars to first-year students living in the Residential Colleges. The Humanities College also offers upperclass courses for members of the University Scholars Program. The practice of art in all its forms traces the history of the human spirit and affirms the ongoing connection between life and art. In building a community of artists at Bucknell, the Arts College bears witness to living artists and attempts to make art from students' lives by crossing the boundaries between sense, mystery, and the individual. The state of our environment has become one of the foremost global concerns of our generation.
Humans occupy a unique position in the world.
While other species have adapted themselves to their environments, we have invented technologies for adapting the environment to our needs and desires. Members of the Environmental College are encouraged to become more aware of the ways in which they affect the world. The current world system is 500 years old. It was launched with voyages by Columbus, sailing from Spain in 1492, and Vasco da Gama, exploring the Indian Ocean for Portugal in 1498. Unlike previous world systems, this one became global in scope.