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TCNJ’s Liberal Learning Program is now called The College Core!

To better convey the importance and value of TCNJ’s general education program, a number of name changes to the Liberal Learning Program (see table below) were approved through shared governance in May 2022 and have been implemented.

These changes do not represent any change to the number or types of requirements of the program.

Where will you see changes?

PAWS

Academic Requirements Report

Students who entered TCNJ before Fall 2023

Your Academic Requirements Report in PAWS will continue to refer to the program as Liberal Learning and will display the old names for its requirements (i.e., there will be no changes).

Students who entered TCNJ before Fall 2023 and switch majors during Fall 2023 or later

After your new major is official, your Academic Requirements Report in PAWS will refer to the program as the College Core and will display the new names for its requirements.

Students entering TCNJ in Fall 2023 or later

Your Academic Requirements Report in PAWS will refer to the program as the College Core and will display the new names for its requirements.

What-If Report

The What-If report pulls the most recent information about programs in PAWS, so beginning in Fall 2023, this report will use the new names of the College Core.

The Liberal Learning Website

The Liberal Learning Website has switched to the new nomenclature.

The Course Search Tool

The web tool that allows one to search for Liberal Learning/College Core courses by requirement, semester, and search terms now uses the new nomenclature.

The Bulletin

The nomenclature of the program will be changed for 2023-24 Bulletin, which will be posted in June 2023.

What names will change?

In the table below, new names for components are indicated in the shaded cells in the column entitled “New Nomenclature”, with the specific changes indicated by white text.

Old Nomenclature New Nomenclature
Liberal Learning The College Core
Intellectual and Scholarly Growth Intellectual and Scholarly Growth
Civic Responsibilities Social Justice
Global Perspectives Global Perspectives
Race & Ethnicity Race & Ethnicity
Community Engagement First-Year Community Engagement
Gender Gender & Sexuality
Broad Areas of Human Inquiry Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts Literary, Visual, or Performing Arts
World Views and Ways of Knowing Belief Systems
Behavioral, Social, or Cultural Perspectives Behavioral, Social, or Cultural Perspectives
Social Change in Historical Perspectives Historical Perspectives
Natural Science Natural Sciences
Quantitative Reasoning Quantitative Reasoning
Please note: The Liberal Learning Program has been renamed The College Core, and some of its components have also been renamed. Learn More
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