UCORE Advising Resources

A Scaffolded Structure

UCORE’s structure is intentionally designed to build capacity and develop skills over time. Most UCORE designations are offered at multiple levels (i.e. 100-400).

Advise students to complete UCORE with the following guidelines in mind, accounting for any transfer credits that may fulfill a UCORE designation:

  • Complete First-Year Experience [ROOT] and Foundational Competencies [QUAN, WRTG, COMM] in their first year.
  • Complete 6 of 7 Inquiry: Ways of Knowing: ARTS, BSCI, DIVR, EQJS, HUM, PSCI, SSCI] in first through third years at course levels appropriate to class standing and per your department’s schedule of study.
  • Note that CAS and CVM students complete 7 of 7 Inquiry: Ways of Knowing as part of additional college graduation requirement.
  • Complete Integrative Capstone [CAPS] in fourth year.

Additional Advising Resources

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Printable Resources

Advising Posters by Semester

Download a 17 by 11 inch printable advising poster that, for a given semester and campus, maps out the courses that make up the UCORE curriculum first by the four overarching UCORE broad categories and then by each of the 11 UCORE requirement areas.