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Core Learning Goals

Why Core Learning?

Before you excel as a public accountant, a human resource manager for a major retailer, a financial analyst charting the biotech industry, or a marketing lead for a fast-moving entertainment start-up, you will need to flex and build your mental muscle, starting with the essential powers of critical and analytical thinking.

Boler Integrated Core Curriculum builds upon a solid foundation of core learning — broad exposure to ideas, conflict, dilemmas, and the unfolding human drama. Why study history, literature, philosophy, music, or art? Because your entire life — and every business you touch — will be served by a few key thinking habits:

  • Making sense of the unfamiliar by means of the familiar
  • Grasping the underlying grammar (organized solutions, hierarchical procedures, rational sequences) of problem-solving
  • Holding to your independent thinking, in the face of pressures, distortions, and overemphasized truths
  • Drawing fresh ideas from a storehouse of seemingly random material