Our three-year and four-year undergraduate curriculum equips students with intensive disciplinary training while preparing them to think and communicate effectively with diverse audiences. The table below offers an overview of our credit structure.
| Course | Minimum Credit Requirement | |
| 3-year UG | 4-year UG | |
| Major | 60 credits | 80 credits |
| Minor | 24 | 32 |
| Interdisciplinary Foundation Courses | 15-17 | 17 |
| Collegiate Communication | 8 | 8 |
| Vocational and Soft Skill Training | 9 | 9 |
| Summer Internship | 2-4 | 2-4 |
| Research/Dissertation | – | 12 |
| Total Credits | 120 credits | 160 credits |
First and second-year students take interdisciplinary foundations and collegiate communication courses in addition to discipline-specific classes. All students are required to complete the following classes within their first three semesters at BMU:
Collegiate Communication:
Freshman Writing Seminar
Writing Collective
Reading Critically: Introduction to the Disciplines 1
Reading Critically: Introduction to the Disciplines 2
Interdisciplinary Foundations:
South Asia in Global History
Self and Identity
Reason and Logic: Anatomies of Thought
India and Its Environs
Data Literacy
Paradigms in the History of Science
Health
Art, Aesthetics, and Expression
Year 1 Workshop (Exploring Majors)
Year 2 Workshop (Choosing Major)
Collegiate Communication: The “core” of SoLS first-year curriculum is the four-course writing and reading sequence.
Interdisciplinary Foundations: In addition to our Collegiate Communication courses, all students will complete six foundational courses, These courses are interdisciplinary, but grounded in the epistemology of a primary field. The first three courses listed below fall into the humanities and social sciences, opening windows into the fields of History (South Asia in Global History), Philosophy (Reason and Logic: Anatomies of Thought), and Psychology and Literature (Self and Identity). In developing an appreciation for the kinds of questions each discipline asks, students will be better positioned to explore meaningful interdisciplinary conversations.
South Asia in Global History: History has a way of unsettling our assumptions about the social and political order and our place in it. This course will introduce students to historical thinking through an examination of the subcontinent and its many global connections. The course will provide all students with important questions and critical frameworks for thinking about India in the twenty-first century.
Reason and Logic: Anatomies of Thought: John Locke famously declared that “Logic is the anatomy of thought,” but can we frame formal logic as a universal science? Students will investigate formal reasoning–its complex genealogy, current methodologies, and diverse applications–as well as debates among philosophers about its possibilities and limits.
Self and Identity: A liberal education begins with the pursuit of self-knowledge: Who am I? And how do I relate to others and to my environment? This class will explore this question through the lens of Psychology or Literature. In addition to disciplinary exposure, this course will also give students the opportunity to explore themselves and to develop their empathy for others.
The next three courses fall into the natural and applied sciences as well as economics and political science. Like the curriculum for the social sciences and humanities, the foundational courses in mathematics and science will emphasize perspective-building: The STEM fields offer unique perspectives for viewing the world and one’s place in it. We aim to undo false binaries of “objective science vs subjective humanities” without undermining the powerful observational tools and investigative methods that the natural sciences offer us. Students will also develop their numeric literacy and capacity for critically interpreting quantitative data according to the course’s primary field.
Finally, a Liberal Arts education challenges students to better understand themselves as they seek to learn more about the world. Art, physical education, and health classes help students connect with themselves as thinking, feeling, and embodied individuals.