Common Core
The King’s College academic
programs are built on our
Common Core classes. They
are “common” because all
students take these courses,
and they are “core” because
they are the intellectual
center of all our other
programs. Most colleges and
universities in the United
States have a small number
of such courses that all
students must take. For
example, students are
typically required to take a
freshman English course that
focuses on writing. The
King’s College differs in
the number of required
courses (many more than most
colleges), in the spacing of
these courses (over all four
years), and in their
importance to our overall
program (very high).
The Common Core consists of
twenty courses in a
particular sequence.
Students take nine of these
courses during the freshman
year. After that, they take
five as sophomores, four as
juniors, and two as seniors.
Altogether, the Common Core
accounts for half the
courses a student needs to
graduate from King’s.
Why this extraordinary
number of required courses?
The King’s College was
created to prepare students
for a particular kind of
religious, cultural,
political, and economic
leadership. We believe that
students who aspire to
change the key institutions
of society for the better
need to know the best ideas,
the most important
arguments, and the most
influential traditions. We
also believe that such
students need to achieve
excellence in the written
and the spoken word. The
Common Core is a classical
answer to these challenges:
it recognizes that some
subjects are more
fundamental than others;
that subjects are best
learned in a specific
sequence; and that truly
advanced courses must be
built on secure foundations.
Common
Core - 60 Credits
ECO 110:
Introduction to Economics
ECO211: Microeconomics
ENG 110: College Writing I
ENG 120: College Writing II
ENG 412: Persuasive Writing
& Speaking*
HIS 111: Western
Civilization I
HIS 212: Western
Civilization II
MAT 155 or MAT 160*
PHL 110: Logic
PHL 361: Ethics*
POL 210: Foundations of
Politics
POL 311: American Political
Thought and Practice I
POL 313: American Political
Thought and Practice II
POL 315: American Political
Thought and Practice III
REL 110: Christianity &
Society
REL 112: Introduction to Old
Testament Literature
REL 211: Introduction to New
Testament Literature
REL 354: Principles of
Biblical Interpretation
REL 412: Foundations of
Judeo-Christian Thought
SCI 312: Scientific
Reasoning
*Business
Administration’s Common Core
replaces these courses with
similar business related
courses.
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