BIC & Pre-Law
The Baylor Interdisciplinary Core prepares students for law school.
The BIC curriculum incorporates the skillset recommended by the American Bar Association for students applying to law schools. These include analytical skills, research and writing skills, and communication skills. Each BIC course helps students develop these skills and apply them to their post-graduate goals.
BIC's Examined Life course presents the value of the life of the mind, the importance of becoming an active learner, and the rewards of life-long learning, which enables students to form connections between their lives in the university and their lives in the wider community. This three-course sequence guides students in making sound life choices for personal wellness through self-reflection, critical thinking, and decision-making.
The BIC's World Cultures sequence, offers students selective explorations of the human story from the emergence of civilizations to the present. Students use texts, works of art, examples of urban design and architecture, and other artifacts that represent the diversity of human voices to explore philosophical, religious, political, educational, artistic, literary, economic, and scientific dimensions of human experience. The World Cultures courses emphasize the connectedness of these various dimensions and develop reading, writing, oral communication, interpretive, and thinking skills.
The World of Rhetoric addresses the traditional concerns of writing and speaking with the focus of the BIC. The aim of The World of Rhetoric is to help students develop skills in textual and contextual analysis as well as in forming well-developed ideas that may be communicated to a specific audience, clearly and cogently.
Social World emphasizes the foundations and development of the social sciences (political science, psychology, anthropology, economics, sociology), the tools of these disciplines (quantitative and qualitative), and the use of the social sciences in analyzing current social issues.
The Natural World explores historical influences on the development of the sciences and the interrelationships between science and culture. Content will be structured around a few unifying themes, such as matter, energy, and change; students will study these themes from the perspectives of various science disciplines. The study of energy, for example, would include its physical, chemical, geological, and biological dimensions.
Several BIC students have graduated from law school and have successful careers as attorneys.
Below are profiles from BIC alumni that explain how the BIC and Pre-Law combination works: