Previous Curricula

The goal of Notre Dame's Core Curriculum is to provide students with a common foundation in learning that will make a unique contribution to their intellectual and personal development as well as their lives after Notre Dame.

Prior to 2018, Notre Dame undergraduates were required to fulfill courses in ten different areas of study in order to ensure that every student would be exposed to a classic liberal arts curriculum but in a way that drew on the full breadth of disciplines, methodologies, and styles of scholarship and communication that such a curriculum represented.