Today, we face increasingly complicated, urgent problems. These issues don't have straightforward histories or simple solutions -- and they often intersect. To take effective action, we need to understand them from multiple disciplinary and social perspectives.

Unlike typical general education systems that simply aim for exposure to a variety of disciplines, all three elements of Union's Complex Questions (CQ) curriculum emphasize connections between disciplines.

• You'll take one of our First Year Inquiry (FYI) seminars to sharpen your critical thinking and writing skills, diving into difficult problems that are open-ended and thought-provoking, require diverse perspectives, and cannot be easily resolved.

• Our Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program helps you develop communication skills during five courses you take both inside and outside your major.

• You'll also take several Perspectives courses, which fall into two Areas of Inquiry: "Global Challenges (G)," and "Justice, Equity, Identity, and Difference (J)". This architecture encourages you to explore issues you care about through the lenses of multiple disciplines.

Use the side menu or the links below to learn more about the Complex Questions curriculum.