Curriculum

You’ll work with faculty, alumni, and professional coaches to test real solutions to real-world problems — not just once, but throughout your degree. With each term, you’ll add to your skills, learning more about yourself, your classmates, and together what you can do for the world, starting right here in San Francisco.

Follow the Path to a Profession That Matters

Here’s a sketch of what we’re planning for each year of the program. Keep in mind that Horizon classes may satisfy core and major requirements so we can keep your course load reasonable. Not all options below are required, but are listed to give you an idea of what’s possible to pursue.

Year One: Come Together

• Take the Horizon gateway course with all other fellows, learning how different majors can work together to address challenges at the intersection of sustainability, health, and tech. 
• Meet researchers and alums working in these spaces in San Francisco. Explore projects you may want to join in year two.
• Meet your faculty adviser. Line up relevant core classes. Start to draft your four-year plan, including whether you’ll pursue a minor in another discipline. Take intro course for your specific major.
• Attend Horizon speaker series, brown bags
• Review opportunities for optional summer campus job, immersion trip, or internship/research experience (apply for supportive grants if needed).

Year Two: Get Working

• Solutions Lab #1: Project-based work with faculty and industry, community, and governmental partners to explore and test practical, scalable solutions to real-world problems. Your work goes straight on your resume and LinkedIn profile. 
• Meet your professional coach
• Attend first annual symposium
• Community engaged project option 
• Explore winter/summer immersion, summer internship/research (optional)
• Line up internship/research assistantship for year three

Year Three: Generate Collective Impact

• Solutions Lab #2
• Present at annual symposium and/or student research day
• Lead/join hackathons
• Attend industry conference (local, state, national)
• Start taking minor courses (optional)
• Connect with alumni, peer mentors on internship/research assistantship prep
• Internship/research assistantship

Year Four: Prepare to Launch

• Solutions Lab #3 (optional)
• Present capstone/senior project
• Enter pitch competitions with other universities
• Work with professional coach, career services on industry introductions, site visits
• Internship/research assistantship

Year Five: Go Farther, Faster

In an optional fifth year, you may pitch a project or a plan to continue ongoing research and request funding for it. Or consider a 4+1 program where you earn both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in five years, with 50 percent off tuition in your final year.