Designing an Exploration
Information for Faculty Interested in Designing an Exploration:
Explorations are designed and approved by a department or through a collaboration of multiple departments. As long as minimum requirements of an Exploration are met, no further approval is necessary. Explorations can:
- cover all courses within a discipline (e.g., Religion),
- be limited to a subset of courses within a discipline (e.g., History of Western Philosophy), or
- focus on a theme with course choices from multiple disciplines (e.g., Modern Intellectual Thought).*
*The last option represents an important way we can help students find electives on topics that are of interest to them but are offered by programs other than their major.
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The minimum requirements are:
- Units: Each exploration will require at least 3 units.
- Overlap rule: At least 2 units must be outside of the INQ/HNRS curriculum and a student’s major, minor, or concentration.
Additional requirements at the discretion of department(s):
- greater number of units,
- minimum GPA.
Courses allowed for an Exploration should be offered frequently enough that a student can complete requirements without tutorials or independent studies.
Questions? Talk to your department chair or to Jennifer Berenson, Explorations Coordinator.