BIC Curriculum
The BIC is an integrated honors core curriculum within Baylor’s Honors College that allows students to fulfill most general education requirements through a shared sequence of interdisciplinary courses.
Rather than taking disconnected introductory classes, BIC students study the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences in conversation with one another, developing habits of critical thinking, reflection, and integration.
Courses
The Examined Life
Reflection on human development, ethics, faith, and vocation, culminating in a senior capstone.
First Year: Human development and college life
Junior Year: Biblical heritage and contemporary ethics
Senior Year: Capstone integration
World Cultures
A five-course sequence exploring cultures, ideas, and societies from antiquity to the present.
First Year: Roots of culture and religion
Second Year: The modern world and the U.S. in a global context
Senior Year: Focused cultural case studies
The World of Rhetoric
A two-course sequence developing writing, speaking, and argumentation.
First Year Fall: Writing and speaking with clarity
First Year Spring: Rhetoric in context
Social World
Two courses on political, economic, and social life.
Fall: The city and the soul
Spring: Modern social systems
Natural World
Two courses exploring scientific reasoning and its cultural impact.
Matter, energy, change, and global science
Sample Course Path
A typical BIC pathway (varies by major):
First Year
Examined Life I
World Cultures I–II
World of Rhetoric I–II
Second Year
World Cultures III–IV
Social World I–II
Natural World I–II
Junior Year
Examined Life II
Senior Year
World Cultures V
Examined Life III (Capstone)