What is Common Core Curriculum at CMR University?
The Common Core Curriculum (CCC), implemented by the Department of Common Core Curriculum (DCCC) was launched in the academic year 2021-22, at CMR University, and is offered as both Credit and Graduate Requirement courses, which all students must complete along with their programme curriculum courses in order to be eligible to graduate.
CMR University strives to ensure that students are equipped with 21 Century competencies that are required to thrive in the ‘University of Life’, with the vision of “nurturing creative thinkers to drive positive global change”.
Towards this end, the Department of Common Core Curriculum (DCCC) aims to prepare all the students who enroll in the various undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the various Schools of the University, for a future, they do not know, jobs that do not exist today and all of life’s challenges that lay before them.
Interlaced with the Programme Core Curriculum, the Common Core Curriculum (CCC) courses are offered to all the students irrespective of the academic programme that they pursue.
These courses are designed on the foundations of the following 3 main aspects:
- Preparing for success – Building successful career pathways, including entrepreneurship, higher education, research and job opportunities.
- Contributing to society – Empowering socially conscious, empathetic, and responsible future leaders.
- Knowing self & community – Understanding the importance of inquiry at the individual, national and global levels, with cultural awareness and ethics.