Core Worksheet
MSU Core
The mission of Core is to enhance students' use of multiple perspectives in making informed creitical and ethical judgments in their personal, public and professional lives.
Foundation Courses:
Students learn to think, speak and write effectively; evaluate the oral and written expression of others; and use complex knowledge in making decisions and judgments.
Inquiry Courses:
Students are introduced to the methods used to discover and create the factual and theoretical knowledge of the discipline.
Research Course:
Students experience the process of research or creative activity as a unique intellectual practice leading to a scholarly or artistic product.
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Foundation Courses
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University Seminar (US) (at least 3 credits)
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College Writing* (W) (at least 3 credits)
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Quantitative Reasoning (Q) (at least 3 credits)
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Diversity (D) (at least 3 credits)
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Contemporary Issues in Science (CS) (at least 3 credits)
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Ways of Knowing: Inquiry and Research & Creative Experience
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Arts (IA or RA) (at least 3 credits)
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Humanities (IH or RH) (at least 3 credits)
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Social Sciences (IS or RS) (at least 3 credits)
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Natural Science (IN or RN) (at least 3 credits)
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Research & Creative Experience (R, RA, RH, RN, or RS) (at least 3 credits) Courses designated RA, RH, RN, or RS count as two Core requirements. For example,
a course designated as RA will satisfy both the Inquiry Arts and the Research & Creative
Experience Core requirements.
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