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Quest for Significance

Search for Meaning

What do you think and why do you think it? That’s the driving force behind The Quest for Significance™, our yearlong freshmen program designed to engage your brain in new ways. As the name suggests, you’ll search for meaning within three integrated courses: Western Literature, Western Civilization, and English Composition. Through readings, discussions, and a class trip to Washington, D.C., or New York-yes, the whole class takes a trip together-you’ll be challenged to look at the world from different angles.

Make connections

The Quest™ prepares your mind for the next stage of your journey: the comprehensive curriculum. Through a series of courses, you’ll explore such areas as the natural world, sacred literature, world civilization, society and world cultures, human imagination, economics and politics, modern comparative history, world literature, and the arts. You’ll examine relationships among different subjects and make connections across disciplines. You’ll also learn to apply classroom theory in practical and relevant ways.

Regardless of your major at King, you’ll begin with The Quest for Significance™ in the School of Arts and Sciences and gain a solid academic foundation that will be beneficial for any major. Taught by a team of teachers from different disciplines, the Quest™ offers an integrated approach to learning. You’ll study a variety of subjects and, with the help of a faculty mentor, discover how they are connected to each other. Combining classroom learning, group interaction, research, and communication skills, the Quest™ is designed to prepare you for the next step of your journey: Discovering your passions and moving you into your field of interest.

Discover your passion

By exploring a variety of subjects, you’re bound to find one-or more-that you’ll want to study more in-depth as a major or minor. Your academic advisor will help you develop a four-year plan for achieving your goals. Thanks to the quality of our academic advising, most King students graduate in four years. You can choose from among our more than 80 majors, concentrations, pre-professional programs, and minors offered in four schools: School of Arts and Sciences, School of Education, School of Business and Economics, and School of Nursing. You can even create your own major based on your academic interests and career goals.