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Maryville University is preparing to launch the latest effort in our quest to reimagine higher education for the next century. Starting in Fall 2025, the traditional undergraduate general education requirements will be replaced by the new MCORE – Maryville’s common, interdisciplinary, core curriculum.
As the world becomes more complex, students require a foundational education that matches that complexity. MCORE has been designed to provide all undergraduates that education while still embodying all of the fundamental elements that make a Maryville education a uniquely personalized and engaging learning experience. The MCORE curriculum consists of 36 credit hours of interdisciplinary, active, inquiry-based course work that will prepare undergraduates with the content knowledge and habits of mind required for success in their future careers and life beyond university. Our new MCORE consists of two parts: The Universal Core and the Individual Core.
UNIVERSAL CORE (15 credit hours)
The Universal Core consists of six courses required for all Maryville undergraduate degrees. In four of these courses, students engage in interdisciplinary exploration of themes at the community, nation, global and professional levels. The other two courses are foundational disciplinary ones that prepare students for university-level learning.
CORE101: Discovering the Community. These first-year seminars allow new students to explore a topic based on their interests, passions, curiosities and the community. These courses are team-taught by faculty, life coaches and peer mentors who will launch students on their successful college experience.
CORE201: Discovering the Nation. Courses in this category provide students the opportunity to explore a topic that affects the United States. These multi-faculty courses bring students together to learn about a specific topic from different disciplinary perspectives.
CORE301: Discovering the World. These courses will explore a topic in-depth from a global perspective. Courses in this category will expose students to different cultural figures, philosophies and institutions to expand their understanding of how the topic is considered on an international level.
CORE401: Discovering the Profession. These senior capstone courses will highlight student growth and achievement through the completion of a project and presentation in their major.
These four Universal Core Courses must be taken in sequence with CORE101 typically in the first semester and CORE401 in the last semester of a student’s degree program. Two other courses, COMP104: Writing Across the Disciplines and CORE102: Everyday Data are also required of all undergraduates and may be taken when it best fits a student’s schedule.
INDIVIDUAL CORE (21 Credit Hours)
Since all of the big questions, issues and solutions of today and tomorrow require students to have the habits of mind and foundational knowledge that draws from different disciplines, MCORE provides students the opportunity to select courses that fit their interest within five interdisciplinary Discovery Areas:
Courses in this area will focus on the study of human behavior, its ethical and moral dimension, human societies, the requirements of civility, and social science theory and practice which undergirds such study. Click HERE to view courses in this discovery.
Courses in this area will focus on the study and purpose of human institutions and systems, the historical and contemporary forms of power, authority, governance and citizenship, and the distribution and use of resources. Click HERE to view courses in this discovery.
Courses in this area will focus on significant systems of thought, contributions made by significant historical and cultural figures, philosophical and historical movements, and ideas which have shaped history, culture and human institutions. Click HERE to view courses in this discovery.
Courses in this area will focus on the nature of the creative imagination, the philosophical underpinnings of human creativity in music, the visual arts, the narrative arts, and philosophical invention, and innovation in a variety of human endeavors. Click HERE to view courses in this discovery.
Courses in this area will focus on the nature of scientific reasoning, the history and variety of the scientific endeavor in culture, and the nature of scientific process and exploration. Click HERE to view courses in this discovery.
Since many of the MCORE courses will fit in multiple discovery areas, this will allow students greater flexibility to pursue themes and topics that they find most interesting. The Individual Core provides our undergraduates maximum opportunity to personalize their learning while discovering new and exciting topics.
To locate which courses belong to each discovery, navigate to the Courses page in the catalog and use the Course Filter option. Type the discovery in the Keyword or Phrase section, and check the box to “Find whole word or phrase only.” Ensure you capitalize both words, i.e. Social Discovery.
CLEAR, CONSISTENT AND TRANSFER-FRIENDLY
To provide a clear and consistent foundational, interdisciplinary, learning experience, all undergraduates will be required to fulfill the following MCORE curriculum:
MCORE
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Universal Core (15 credit hours)
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Individual Core (21 credit hours)
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CORE101: Discovering the Community (3 credit hours)
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Social Discovery (3 credit hours)
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CORE201: Discovering the Nation (3 credits hours)
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Civic Discovery (3 credit hours)
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CORE301: Discovering the World (3 credit hours)
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Cultural Discovery (3 credit hours)
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CORE401: Discovering the Profession (in major)
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Creative Discovery (6 credit hours)
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CORE102: Everyday data (3 credit hours)
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Scientific Discovery (6 credit hours)
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ENGL104: Writing Across the Disciplines (3 credit hours)
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For students bringing in credit hours from advanced high school classes or other universities, MCORE provides a transfer-friendly policy that will allow you to count many, if not all, of your traditional coursework towards fulfilling your MCORE requirements. Our admission advisors can help you determine how your prior educational experience will count for the MCORE to ensure you can achieve your desired degree with the least amount of problems.
BE BOLD, BE BRAVE
Our MCORE curriculum will provide undergraduate students an innovative, active, interdisciplinary way of learning that will prepare them to bravely succeed in an ever complex and interdependent world. The MCORE is the latest step in Maryville boldly leading the way in higher education.
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