Loyola's Common Curriculum
The Common Curriculum is the centerpiece of the Loyola educational experience. It provides a broad, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary core of liberal education to students in every major program in the university. The lower division of the Common Curriculum (consisting of courses numbered T122-T125) lays a foundation of skills and knowledge in English, mathematics, history, philosophy, religious studies, and the natural sciences. Building on that foundation, upper-division courses (numbered U-Z, 130-199) offer the opportunity for deeper reflection on, and analysis of, values, presuppositions, and the varied disciplinary perspectives involved in understanding the world. This reflective emphasis, along with the centrality of philosophy and religious studies, gives a distinctively Jesuit stamp to the core educational experience at Loyola University New Orleans.
Requirements
For most first-year students, introductory Common Curriculum courses will make up the majority of the course load. Second and third year students will usually be taking a substantial number of upper-division Common Curriculum courses. Students in the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences and the College of Social Scienes will normally fulfill a 48-hour requirement in the Common Curriculum, while students in the College of Business are required to complete 33 Common Curriculum hours, and those in the College of Music and Fine Arts must fulfill a 39-hour requirement. View Common Curriculum requirements.
Governance
The Common Curriculum is overseen by the Common Curriculum Committee , which is made up of faculty from the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences, the College of Social Sciences as well as representatives of the colleges of Business and Music and Fine Arts.
