Trinity College Curriculum
The strongest educational advantage offered by a research university is to link its undergraduate curriculum to the processes of inquiry and discovery and to the work of its faculty. Building on this principle, the undergraduate liberal arts curriculum is inquiry-based, with research and writing as its cornerstones. It is designed to develop intellectual capacities that are hallmarks of a Duke education:
- The ability to make meaning of complex information
- The ability to evaluate and discern among competing claims
- The ability to collaborate as well as compete
- The ability to engage difference
- The ability to apply knowledge in the service of society
The Trinity College curriculum is meant to encourage breadth as well as depth and provide structure as well as choice. It reflects Duke's desire to dedicate its unique resources to prepare students for a rapidly changing and globally interconnected world.
The Trinity curriculum comprises two dimensions: General education courses assure breadth across areas of knowledge, reflecting the full range of disciplines, and modes of inquiry, reflecting ways of thinking and cross-cutting intellectual themes. The major provides depth of engagement in a discipline and its methodologies.
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