Concourse Program at MIT
Concourse is an alternative freshman program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Concourse admits up to sixty self-selected MIT freshmen who are interested in understanding the breadth of human knowledge and the larger context of their science and engineering studies.
History
Concourse was founded by a group of MIT faculty in 1970, and was chartered by the Institute in 1971. Past directors include Jerome "Jerry" Lettvin, and Robert M. Rose.
The program originally had office and classroom space on the second floor of the old barracks building (MIT building 20). It now resides in the Dorrance Building (MIT building 16) at the center of the central section of campus and along the extension of the Infinite Corridor.
Present Program
Since becoming director in July 2009, Professor Bernhardt Trout has begun slowly renovating the program to return it to its interdisciplinary roots. In spite of institute-wide budget cuts, he expanded the humanities offerings of the program and started an integration seminar that connects the students' science studies to the humanities.
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