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Core Curriculum

@corecurriculum

For more than thirty years, Core has cultivated community of learning at the heart of @BU_CAS.

 Boston University
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Joined July 2010
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Dear Friends of Core: We’ve accomplished so much this Giving Day– we hope you will join us at bit.ly/SupportCore for one last push to get the most donors for the Arts and Sciences Donor Challenge by midnight. “Friends enhance our ability to think and to act.” Aristotle
Confucius quote "If we really wanted Goodness, we should find that it was at our very side."

ALT Confucius quote "If we really wanted Goodness, we should find that it was at our very side."

Core students at Core tea with a giving day banner saying "Together, we're unstoppable"

ALT Core students at Core tea with a giving day banner saying "Together, we're unstoppable"

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Thank you for helping us reach our matching goal of $5,000! We’ve now raised over $10,000 from 88 supporters! Your support makes a tangible difference in a Core student’s learning experience. Visit bit.ly/SupportCore to SPONSOR-A-BOOK for a Core student by midnight tonight.
A photo of the CC101 fall 2023 class with the text "Together, we're unstoppable"

ALT A photo of the CC101 fall 2023 class with the text "Together, we're unstoppable"

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” -Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

ALT “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” -Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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Core students witness entire worlds brought to life through the lens of Core texts. Put these worlds in the hands of Core students through your donation at bit.ly/SupportCore
“No… crocodiles.” by Anton Chekhov The Cherry Orchard page 116

ALT “No… crocodiles.” by Anton Chekhov The Cherry Orchard page 116

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Many of you have already participated in our SPONSOR-A-BOOK challenge today and we are incredibly grateful. If you have not yet, consider giving $5 for one of the above Core texts. Find the full list at bit.ly/SupportCore.
Giving Day Post: Sponsor-a-Book For $5 or more give one of these texts to a Core student: Analects, Paradise Lost, Inferno

ALT Giving Day Post: Sponsor-a-Book For $5 or more give one of these texts to a Core student: Analects, Paradise Lost, Inferno

“Make their food savory, Their clothes fine, Their houses comfortable, Their lives happy. Then even though neighboring states are within sight of each other, Even though they can hear the sounds of each other’s dogs and chickens, Their people will grow old and die without ever having visited one another" By Laozi in The Daodejing Ch. 80.

ALT “Make their food savory, Their clothes fine, Their houses comfortable, Their lives happy. Then even though neighboring states are within sight of each other, Even though they can hear the sounds of each other’s dogs and chickens, Their people will grow old and die without ever having visited one another" By Laozi in The Daodejing Ch. 80.

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With 55 supporters we currently hold third in most unique donors and we’ve raised over $3,500 toward our matching goal of $5,000. Help push us closer by selecting a Core text to sponsor at bit.ly/SupportCore.
“This urge to action, do the gods instill it, Or is each man’s desire a god to him...?” - Virgil in the Aeneid

ALT “This urge to action, do the gods instill it, Or is each man’s desire a god to him...?” - Virgil in the Aeneid

A photo of Core students atop a bell tower.

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Every year we honor the accomplishments of Core students and faculty at the Core Banquet. Give today at bit.ly/SupportCore to continue the tradition of celebrating and supporting Core students throughout their time at BU.
A photo of students being award the Social Sciences Award at our annual Core Banquet.

ALT A photo of students being award the Social Sciences Award at our annual Core Banquet.

The quote "“To live with honor or die with honor—that is the choice the man of nobility must make.” from Sophocles' Ajax over a photo of Roman soldiers.

ALT The quote "“To live with honor or die with honor—that is the choice the man of nobility must make.” from Sophocles' Ajax over a photo of Roman soldiers.

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Core students who take CC201 are eligible to go to Florence in January following the end of their course. Visit bit.ly/SupportCore to see what books you can sponsor for a Core student this Giving Day!
“Knowledge forbidd’n?/ Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord/ Envy them that? can it be sin to know,/ Can it be death?” John Milton, Paradise Lost

ALT “Knowledge forbidd’n?/ Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord/ Envy them that? can it be sin to know,/ Can it be death?” John Milton, Paradise Lost

Picture of students in Florence

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SPONSOR-A-BOOK for a Core student today. Visit the bit.ly/SupportCore to see what books you can sponsor this Giving Day. As little as $5 buys a copy of the Analects, Paradise Lost, or Inferno while also pushing us toward our matching goal of $5,000!
Giving Day graphic with "Sponsor-a-Book for a Core student" and bit.ly/SupportCore above a photo of our lending library.

ALT Giving Day graphic with "Sponsor-a-Book for a Core student" and bit.ly/SupportCore above a photo of our lending library.

Frederick Douglass quote "“As I read and contemplated the subject, behold!... Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing.” over a pastoral landscape painting.

ALT Frederick Douglass quote "“As I read and contemplated the subject, behold!... Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing.” over a pastoral landscape painting.

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Join Core this Giving Day in raising funds for our lending library. The Core Lending Library ensures all students in Core have books in hand from the very first class. Use bit.ly/SupportCore to see our goals this year! Giving Day begins tonight at midnight.
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Zachary Bos@zakbos22 Jul 2022
Have a palate cleanser, friends. This is Lily, the unemployed and benignly chaotic mutt, on a recent morning constitutional at Crocker Conservation Area.
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And it’s the morning and let’s see how we did and okay oh no we did not get one more follower, pack it up team, we need to rethink our approach.
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Whooooo will be the five hundredth follower of this the Core-ageous, in-Core-rigible, ran-Core-ous, Terpsi-Core-ean Core Curricula Twitter account? Gasp, alack and awesomesauce, it COULD! BE! ***YOU***! Please follow.
Whooooo will be the five hundredth follower of this the Core-ageous, in-Core-rigible, ran-Core-ous, Terpsi-Core-ean Core Curricula Twitter account? Gasp, alack and awesomesauce, it COULD! BE! ***YOU***! Please follow.
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I recently spoke to @BurckhardtBooks about my career, book history, fore-edge paintings, and all sorts of things! The first of three episodes is up now: burckhardtbooks.com/podcast (Related: a selfie I took with the first book I looked at in a reading room, @CRC_EdUni MS19 😍)
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It is rumored that students who register for CL161: Ancient Greek 1 are immediately overtaken by a profound sense of ἀταραξία (or so we've been told)
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John Florio@iohannesflorius2 Jul 2022
“Usus, non lectio prudentes facit.” “The use, not the reading, of books makes us wise,” from Geoffrey Whitney’s Choice of Emblems (1586).
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Mary Peace@maryvpeace25 Jun 2022
English lit degree at Sheffield Hallam is being “suspended.” University responding to Government who will no longer fund degrees where 60% students don’t end up in “highly skilled” jobs within 6 months.
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Steve Wilcox@stevemwilcox16 Jun 2022
My deus? Ex.
Sam Maggs (@SamMaggs) profile pictureSam Maggs@SamMaggs16 Jun 2022
My dragons? Aged.
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J. Simon Harris@JSimonHarris1 Jun 2022
Lately I've been investing in Dante. Crypt currency.
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