Common Core Thematic Clusters

(applicable to cohorts admitted in or after 2017-18)

 

‘Sustaining Cities, Cultures, and the Earth’ aligns with the University’s commitment to the United Nations’ Sustainability Development Goals and addresses the pressing question of sustainability across multiple domains of knowledge and practice.

 

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The Quest for a Meaningful Life (applicable to cohorts admitted in or after 2020-21) / The Universe and the Question of Meaning (applicable to cohorts admitted in 2017-18, 2018-19, and 2019-20)

 

‘The Universe and the Question of Meaning’ is designed for those most interested in cross-overs between different ways of knowing the world, practices of spirituality, and philosophical reflections on meaning, ethics and well-being.

 

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(applicable to cohorts admitted in or after 2021-22)

 

‘Creative Arts’ offers students a combined experience of both making and interpreting the arts across multiple media-formats, historical periods, and social contexts.

 

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(applicable to cohorts admitted in or after 2021-22)

 

‘The Human Lifespan’ offers students a holistic transdisciplinary engagement with the multidimensional questions about the human lifespan from before conception to death and the debates that hover around the question of immortality.

 

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(applicable to cohorts admitted in or after 2021-22)

 

‘Gender, Sexuality, and Diversity’ offers students a space for the transdisciplinary holistic exploration of questions that bear deeply upon individual and social identities across multiple cultural contexts.

 

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