Each college has its own mission and philosophy of education. At the College of General Studies, we offer students a two-year, team-taught, interdisciplinary core curriculum. We believe that an educated person must have a firm grounding in the liberal arts: the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and rhetoric. We know that our students receive the same advantages offered by the finest liberal arts colleges—small classes taught by full-time faculty with PhDs in their fields—while they are enrolled in one of the best research universities in the country.