Humanities Courtyard
A Scripps education begins with the Core Curriculum in Interdisciplinary Humanities, a three-semester courses-in-common program. Host to many Core classes, the Humanities building is also the site of one of Scripps’ most famous campus protests: in 1968, during its construction, students were upset that a grove of olive trees was to be torn out to make room for the new structure. They occupied the treetops until the administration promised to relocate the trees to sites around campus. Today, eight of the original olive trees still stand where they were planted.