The Core
ACU's new university Core is an innovative and intrinsically different approach to higher education. No matter what your major, you'll take a set of classes designed to help you think critically, globally and missionally, and prepare you to make a difference in the world.
ACU's Core: Fundamentally Different
Every university has what is traditionally called a core curriculum: a set of courses each student takes while earning credits toward a degree. Whether you choose to study business or education or ministry or chemistry or one of ACU's other 100-plus undergraduate majors, you'll take a set of classes designed to help you think critically, globally and missionally, and prepare you to make a difference in the world.
The perfect foundation
Abilene Christian has been working for years to reimagine its Core. We believe it's the perfect foundation for a 21st-century education, regardless of your academic major or career path.
The courses in ACU's Core are designed to help you find answers to some big questions. The classes are interdisciplinary, taught by professors who will inspire you with just the right combination of exciting and challenging experiences you will never forget.
And you can only get them at ACU.
The Core questions
How do we know what we know? What can we know for sure? Who am I? What makes me, me? Who is "the other"? As an educated Christian, how do I live my life?
Exploring questions such as these in innovative, team-taught classes helps form the foundation of the Core - five courses all students take at ACU.
Classes meet in traditional places, but also in museums and restaurants, at the zoo, in the park and over a meal in your professor's home. Find out more.
Engage the World
Five courses that will prepare you:
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Cornerstone Portal
Follow the conversation taking place in the CORE 110: Cornerstone classes. See articles, videos, blogs, and more.
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ACU's mission is to educate students for Christian service and leadership throughout the world.
