Explaining Complex Ideas

The foundation curriculum that prepares you for any university-level math course — calculus, linear algebra, discrete math, statistics. Builds symbolic fluency from variables and equations through functions, polynomials, exponentials, trigonometry, and the proof and set-theory groundwork that modern mathematics rests on.

A working understanding of the natural world — what science is, how matter and energy behave, how life persists and changes, and how Earth and the cosmos fit together. The trunk gives you a single coherent throughline across physics, chemistry, biology, and earth/space science; clusters dive into experimental design, mechanics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, modern physics, genetics, ecology, and climate.

How machine learning actually works — from learning-as-optimization through the classical toolkit to deep learning and foundation models. The depth step after AI Fundamentals: real mechanics, no code or graduate math required.

A working understanding of psychology — what the science actually claims about how minds, brains, and behavior fit together. The trunk gives you the orientation a literate professional needs (how psychology knows what it knows, the brain behind behavior, learning, memory, decision-making, emotion, personality, social influence, development, pathology, and what therapy does); clusters dive into research methods, perception, cognition mechanics, social influence tactics, the field guide of disorders, applied behavioral science, and the psychology of everyday life.

A working understanding of finance and investing — how capital markets price risk, how companies create value, how investors build portfolios, and where the math meets human psychology. The trunk gives you the throughline; clusters dive into financial statements, valuation, corporate finance, bonds, portfolio construction, derivatives, and behavioral finance.

The financial life skills nobody actually taught you — money psychology, budgeting, debt, credit, taxes, insurance, retirement accounts, and the math of financial independence. Walk the trunk and you have a system; pull on a cluster when something specific matters.