Dragon Core

Students select 3-7 courses from 100-, 200-, or 300-level courses. Middle Cluster courses extend and apply the competencies learned in the Foundation Four and integrate the skills within the context of academic disciplines found in competency areas DC 3-7.

• DC 3 - Mathematical / Symbolic Systems

• DC 4 - Natural Sciences

• DC 5 - History and the Social Sciences

• DC 6 - The Humanities - The Arts, Literature, and Philosophy

• DC 7 - Human Diversity

Students may take Middle Cluster courses simultaneously while taking Inner Cluster courses, provided students meet the Middle Cluster course requirements of applying and extending Foundation Four courses.

• Middle Cluster courses that do not include a laboratory or studio experience must list at least two Foundation Four courses as prerequisites.

• Courses with a laboratory or studio experience must list at least one of the Foundation Four courses as a prerequisite

• Middle Cluster courses may require students to have completed one course in a designated competency area, drawn from DC 3-7, as a prerequisite.

• A specific 100-level Inner Cluster course (rather than a DC competency area) may be listed as a prerequisite during AY 2006-2007 only.