CORE - Core Curriculum

What is the core of a UP education? The Anchor Seminar and accompanying workshops explore this question by introducing university life, the Core curriculum, and the values of a liberal arts education at a Holy Cross institution. Faculty and student leaders discuss, model, and engage Core Habits of Heart and Mind, while facilitating a positive transition into UP’s educational community. 

In this responsive, transdisciplinary course, and with the instruction of faculty across the University, students grapple with some of today’s biggest crises. Students will use multiple academic lenses to learn how racial justice, public health, and environmental collapse disrupt and intersect with the pursuit of justice, peace, and health. While this course will meet weekly, most learning will take place asynchronously online. 

The study of chemistry in a variety of art forms. Students engage in creative processes through in-class activities, some of which result in the creation of a tangible piece of art (etched glass, fresco, cyanotype, diazo print, copper etching, and jewelry colored by thin film interference). Other topics include pigments and dyes, paintings, photography, and techniques used to analyze artworks and detect forgeries. Two papers and a student-designed final project are assigned. Fee: $70

The course explores the chemistry involved in the creation and cultures of food. Students will learn through lab activities such as kitchen spherification about chemistry in the appearance, taste and shape of food. Students will also use scientific thinking to engage in sous vide cooking and the making of cheese, bread and kimchi. A survey of the anthropology of fermentation offers a sense of how global consciousness informs the science of food. Fee: $70