The Common Course of Study

Lafayette College graduates are distinguished by their engaged, informed citizenship in the world, and by their ability to collaborate and communicate both within and across disciplinary boundaries. Lafayette’s Common Course of Study contributes significantly to the development of these qualities by encouraging students to use and to connect a variety of modes of inquiry and ways of knowing. It challenges them to engage with issues of power and privilege in both local and global systems and contexts, to develop socio-technical thinking, and to cultivate their intellectual maturity and critical thinking.