The course will include required foundational courses emphasizing critical thinking and interdisciplinary approaches; concentrations in the humanities, natural sciences, the social sciences, and management; and research requirements.

To that end, while Mr. Kubert requires students to take a sequence of classes in drawing, design and layout, his school's foundational course is narrative art.

Universities are superb at the foundational courses.

While the first year is devoted to foundational course, the second year enables the students to gain breadth and depth of different areas and specialize in the selective fields.

Discussing the university, he said: "They certainly have a right to say the student needs to take foundational courses.

He had memorized through the "second part" of the Koran and completed "half of the foundational course."

Years I and II of the curriculum emphasize the foundational courses in the biological sciences.

Jose Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines, enrolled in the Faculty to pursue foundational courses in medicine.

During the first two years of instruction, students enroll in intensive mathematics, English, and foundational disciplinary courses.

If universities are in decline, perhaps it is time to re-establish true core curriculums - foundational courses that students must take and professors must teach.