INTEGRATED CORE CURRICULUM

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The core curriculum prepares students to be lifelong learners who have the necessary skills to navigate their future careers and live impactful lives. Designed by our faculty members, it spans critical competencies that employers routinely tout as the most important skills needed in the workforce. We strive to educate ethical leaders and engaged citizens and our core curriculum allows students to investigate questions of ethical, religious and philosophical inquiry. All USD undergraduate students, no matter their majors, engage in a diversity of perspectives that can only come from critically examining art, history, literature and the human experience.

Living Learning Communities

As part of the first-year experience at USD, students who share a common interest live and study together. Living Learning Communities, or LLCs, ease your academic and social transition into college, they expand your intellectual curiosity beyond the classroom and establish an immediate sense of community with your faculty members and fellow residents. While in an LLC, students take classes together and live near one another, sharing a supercharged college experience where academics meld with exciting co-curricular activities and community engagement, helping to unfurl new understandings in the process.