• The Franklin & Marshall Curriculum combines a spirit of innovation with a strong sense of tradition and provides a framework for the students’ intellectual development over their four years at Franklin & Marshall College.
  • A liberally educated person is one who is inquisitive about all realms of thought, who is able to take into the wider world comfort with ambiguity and respectful debate, who understands the limits of knowledge and the value of the evidence, who has refined his or her judgment about the good and the beautiful, and who has learned to analyze critically, to speak persuasively, and to listen attentively.
  • The curriculum has three phases: Introduction, Exploration, and Concentration. Together with electives, these phases offer an appropriate balance between structure and choice to allow the construction of an individualized educational experience.
  • In the introduction phase, students take small, intensive seminars, Connections 1 and Connections 2, which are unified by a concern for the aims and standards of intellectual discourse and the communities that sustain it.