ACADEMIC PROGRAM

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ALL FOR YOU, YOU BRILLIANT UNDERGRADUATE

A friendly reminder: Everything you read about on this page and elsewhere in this book is yours. That delicate, expensive equipment; those always-accessible, state-of-the-art labs; that complicated, Mudd-only computer network; those award- winning professors—all for you. Not for graduate students, not for

professional researchers who come and go like ghosts—for you, you bril- liant, brave, crazy undergraduate. Now get out there and make us proud.

THE CURRICULUM It’s not designed for drones or yes-men or mad geniuses who bark at their assistants and work feverishly on a single, incredibly special- ized project all their lives. It’s a boundless, unbridled, broad-shouldered, deep- thinking, hands-on education for people smart enough to know that the future is unformed, knowledge is impermanent, and tomorrow belongs to the fluid, the

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fluent, the hybrid. So. Ahem. Our curriculum includes a set of core classes so intense and so comprehensive, they get their own section; an unusual amount of work in the humanities, social sciences and the arts, including a concentration—nearly a minor—in a specific discipline; major coursework that offers grounding in the theoretical foundation of a field and a stupen- dous amount of applied work, including at least a year of required research. And a surprising amount of flexibility, including other coursework options at The Claremont Colleges. You’ll learn to think across disciplines and ap- proach problem solving from any number of angles. You’ll learn why your work is important, and how it might impact society. And, most essentially, you’ll be able to communicate your amazing ideas to others, because if you can’t write about, speak about and collaborate with others to promote your brilliant solution, how will you change the world?

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