Cobb Hall

Cobb Hall is the heart of the undergraduate experience at UChicago. It’s the oldest building on campus, and pretty much every student will take at least one Core class in Cobb during their time at UChicago.

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Prof. Paul Serano holds a dinosaur fossil up to students in a classroom
A student sits at a table in a cafe. Photos and maps are on the wall behind her
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📓 Academics at UChicago

The Core Curriculum

At the University of Chicago, our Core curriculum is each student’s introduction to the tools of inquiry used in every discipline—humanities, social sciences, and natural and mathematical sciences.

The Core is distinctive for its small, Socratic-style classes capped at a maximum of 19 students where learning takes place through discussion based primary texts. The Core curriculum accounts for the first third of a student's time in the College, giving them a great deal of flexibility in how they complete it. Not everyone takes the same classes, but everyone studies similar disciplines and tackles similar intellectual challenges, which provides each student in the College a common vocabulary of ideas and common skills of analysis and argumentation. It provides a shared, unifying experience for all students in the College, as well as background for any major and habits of mind that last a lifetime.

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