After much discussion and several false starts, Nassau Community College (New York) has developed a two-course core curriculum designed to cover significant material from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities in practical proportions. The first course in the sequence, "Exploring Nature and Society," deals with Perceptions of the Physical World, Views of Human Nature, Authority and the Individual, and the Search for Meaning in the Universe. The second course, "Ideas and Expression in the Arts," looks at Expressions of the Physical World: Realism to Abstraction, Expressing the Human Condition: Symbolism, Authority and the Individual: The Drama of Protest, and the Beautiful and the Sublime. To help students deal with the abstract concepts presented in the course, each major unit begins with a discussion of a central, usually contemporary, figure and of a question that the individual might ask. For example, Martin Luther King is the central figure for the unit on Authority and the Individual, and his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" serves as the basis for a discussion of the question, "how should an individual behave when in conflict with authority?" To prepare instructors to teach the courses, a one-semester faculty seminar has been developed to enable teachers to teach each other, refine course content, become familiar with the materials, and determine means of presenting information. The courses will not be team taught, the parameters of the program will remain flexible in order to maintain freshness, and the cross-disciplinary thematic structure of the course will emphasize connections and the integration of material. Students will be advised to take the courses as early as possible after completing all remedial and developmental work. (MDB)