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.
The Core Curriculum is the set of classes that all Lawrence Technological University undergraduates take, no matter what their major.
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.
Four courses in the humanities, which are based on reading the great books and experiencing the great art of world civilizations:
Two courses in written, oral, and visual 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 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.
The Humanities Core Curriculum provides a comprehensive, interactive engagement with literature, history, philosophy, and the arts. LTU’s Humanities Core is designed to help you unleash your curiosity, providing you the chance to engage some of the fundamental questions and enduring ideas of intellectual life through shared readings, lively discussions with faculty and fellow students, collaborative presentations, and problem-solving teamwork. From their very first year, students engage some of the most provocative, challenging, and exciting humanistic works of the past in the two-course “Engaging Texts” sequence, allowing them to cultivate their curiosity, imagination, and intellectual breadth. Building on this experience, students take a series of 2000-level elective courses—one in Language and Literature, the other in the Social Sciences that offer them the chance to explore culture, society, history, the arts, technology, and ideas, from introductory to advanced study. Finally, students conclude the humanities core with a 3000/4000-level Jr/Sr elective.
In Humanities, Social Sciences, and Communication, we explore what makes us uniquely human. Through ancient and modern texts, social norms, and communication, we uncover how these fields are essential to all careers and human endeavors.
In a world of programming, proofs, and unending figures and unfeeling facts, is there room for a touch of magic? Data drives discovery, innovation redefines intelligence, and when curiosity meets logic, mathematics can be miraculous.
Curiosity drives discovery in biology, chemistry, and physics, guiding us from molecular interactions to chemical reactions and the fundamental laws of nature. Explore what makes you curious.
The CoAS Research Assistant (RA) Match Form connects current LTU undergraduate students with rewarding research assistant roles in our campus laboratories.