The new Core Program, “Histories of the Present,” began in fall 2010, and the current Core 3 students are the first to experience the three-semester program. 
The Core 3 Symposium culminates the new Core Program with a showcase of the students’ independent projects. With these projects – which range from the creation of our conceptions of the Middle East to how social space at Scripps is constructed, from the reception of the Bible to the sexuality of citizenship in the United States, from the emergence of discrete musical categories to the oral histories of Scripps’ alumnae – students are exploring what has become commonsensical notions in our world and unearthing the complexity and contradictions with which we all live.
These projects tell us much about ourselves and our world by shining a critical light on what we assume to be obvious, natural, and even historically necessary concepts about human culture. The broad range of courses testifies not only to the ambitious new Core program that investigates how we have come to accept certain ideas as “true,” it also demonstrates the different aspects of our world that deserve critical attention. Please see the complete listing of Core 3 Symposium lectures and events by clicking here.