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Core Curriculum

What is the Core Curriculum?

The Core Curriculum is the set of classes that all Lawrence Technological University undergraduates take, no matter what their major. Designed for excellence, the Core Curriculum prepares you to take leadership role in the diverse world in which you will live, advance your career, and contribute to your community.

Built around a strongly interactive engagement with literature, history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and the arts, the Core also emphasizes shared intellectual experiences within a community of learning through reading, directed discussions, group presentations, and problem-solving teamwork.

Your Core Learning Experience is Built On

Four courses in the humanities, which are based on reading the great books and experiencing the great art of world civilizations:

  • HUM 1213 Engaging Ancient Texts
  • HUM 1223 Engaging Modern Texts
  • One LLT 2xx3 Elective
  • One SSC 2xx3 Elective College of Arts + Sciences | Core CurriculumCollege of Arts + Sciences | Core Curriculum

Two courses in written, oral, and visual communication:

  • English Composition
  • Technical and Professional Communication

Two courses, where what you study depends on your major

Two courses in natural sciences, including laboratory experience

One upper-division elective in the humanities or social sciences, to add depth to your education

The Goal of the Core Curriculum

  • Capacity to evaluate conflicting ideas

  • Savvy to seek alternative solutions to problems

  • Perseverance to succeed in difficult projects

  • Ability to read and analyze challenging works

  • Poise to articulate ideas orally and in writing

  • Competency to simplify complex problems through the manipulation of symbols

  • Discipline to apply scientific principles to improve understanding

  • Confidence to be creative

  • Knowledge of the past that informs the role of citizens in a free society

In the Humanities Core, you:

  • Analyze many of the best books in science, literature, philosophy, and politics

  • Defend your interpretations in oral presentations and clear, well-reasoned papers

In the Mathematics Core, you:

  • Master the skills needed for your profession and gain an understanding of the impact of mathematics on Western culture

  • Are exposed to the concept of functions and their manipulation and to calculus, including its impact on the development of science and Western thought

  • Gain expertise in the use of computers in your field

In the Natural Sciences Core, you:

  • Receive a full year of rigorous training that, no matter what your major, can enable you to more fully understand scientific thinking, its limitations, and its implications for other fields of thought.

The Core’s blend of in-depth knowledge, broad understanding, and analytical thinking can give you the confidence to determine your life’s course, make meaningful contributions to the lives of others, and achieve success in your professional field.

» Document Viewer

Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.