This course, designed for students transferring to St. Mary’s College of Maryland with more than 24 credits, focuses on the four fundamental liberal arts skills (critical thinking, information literacy, written expression and oral expression) and emphasize their importance for a broad grounding in the liberal arts. These Seminars are not meant to be introductions to disciplines. Rather, they focus on a question, an issue, or a group of texts, on which students will write, speak, research and think critically. Sections of CORE 301 vary by topic.