Asking Essential Questions at Ursinus

Ursinus College’s (PA) Common Intellectual Experience has long been one of its crown jewels. So when it came time to rethink Ursinus’s core curriculum, it seemed natural to draw inspiration from the yearlong sequence, which asks freshmen to ponder some of life’s biggest questions with readings that stretch from Plato and Sappho to Ta-Nehisi Coates and Alison Bechdel.  The result of Ursinus’s years-long core revision is a curriculum based on four questions, to be asked throughout one’s time on campus, in the classroom and elsewhere: What should matter to me? How should we live together? How can we understand the world? And what will I do?