Our Core Curriculum faculty will help you build three foundations needed for lifelong adaptability, professional success, and personal fulfillment:

• Breadth of knowledge and experience in exploring new areas
  
• Deep understanding of an area that you feel passionately about outside of your career
  
  
• The ability to make connections and recognize the unity of knowledge

The Roger Williams University Core is a four-year experience that's required for all students. You'll begin with a set of five unique interdisciplinary courses in Human Behavior, Literature & Philosophy, Science & Technology, History and the Nature of Revolution, and The Artistic Impulse.

You'll then explore your passion with in-depth study on campus or in a foreign country. In your final year, you'll select a topical senior seminar, such as Environment Ethics or Prejudice and Institutional Violence, which will challenge you to pull together and synthesize all of your learning experiences.

Core Curriculum for Transfers 

Students transferring to the University must meet the following Core Curriculum requirements. All transfer students' transcripts will be evaluated so that, when applicable, course work will be applied toward the Core Concentration requirement. All interdisciplinary Core courses, if required, must be taken at the University.

Students matriculating with fewer than 24 accepted transfer credits must complete:

• all skills courses that have not been satisfied through transfer credits
• all five interdisciplinary Core courses*
• a Core Concentration (transfer credit may be applied)
• the Core Interdisciplinary Senior Seminar or University study abroad

Students matriculating with 24-30 accepted transfer credits must complete:

• all skills courses that have not been satisfied through transfer credits
• four of the five interdisciplinary Core courses*
• a Core Concentration (transfer credit may be applied)
• the Core Interdisciplinary Senior Seminar or University study abroad

Students matriculating with 31-44 accepted transfer credits must complete:

• all skills courses that have not been satisfied through transfer credits
• three of the five interdisciplinary Core courses*
• a Core Concentration (transfer credit may be applied)
• the Core Interdisciplinary Senior Seminar or University study abroad

Students matriculating with 45-59 accepted transfer credits must complete:

• all skills courses that have not been satisfied through transfer credits
• two of the five interdisciplinary Core courses*
• a Core Concentration (transfer credit may be applied)
• the Core Interdisciplinary Senior Seminar or University study abroad

Students matriculating with an associate degree from an accredited liberal arts college or with 60 or more accepted transfer credits must complete:

• all skills courses that have not been satisfied through transfer credits
• a Core Concentration (transfer credit may be applied)
• the Core Interdisciplinary Senior Seminar or University study abroad

*In the case of the Core interdisciplinary science requirement, students may substitute one of the two-semester four-credit laboratory science sequences noted on page 120.