The core curriculum includes the materials and instructional standards required of all students in the general education setting. Core curricula often are instituted at the elementary and secondary levels by local school boards, departments of education, or other administrative agencies charged with overseeing education.

See: curriculum.

The coursework from all academic disciplines that is required for all undergraduate degrees – liberal arts, humanities, sciences, and political, social, and cultural history.

a series of academic units providing a common learning experience across ACU’s undergraduate programs which aims to teach students to think critically and ethically, and to be guided by social justice principles in their personal and professional lives.

Called “general education” in some colleges, the core is comprised of those courses which must be completed by all degree candidates regardless of major. In a Liberal Arts setting, the core is intended to provide exposure to courses in the arts, humanities, sciences, and mathematics.

Classes required of all students who complete a bachelors degree, regardless of major, are called the Core Curriculum.  Some colleges and majors have their own core curriculum, which may include specific requirements that also fulfill some of the University’s General Education Core areas. (For instance, the Department of History requires HIST 110, [..]

1. an approach to general education that requires all students to take the same set of courses, rather than choosing from a menu of options; 2. sometimes used as a synonym for general education. See a [..]

That part of the curriculum that is considered essential for all students, and is usually compulsory.

A curriculum, or course of study, which is deemed central and usually made mandatory for all students of a school or school system.

— the body of knowledge that all students are expected to learn in the subjects of English, mathematics, history/social science and science

The core curriculum is the fundamental collection of knowledge across the whole curriculum that all students are required to learn in school.

Specific group of courses outside of major that are required for graduation from college.