Core Curriculum - Traditional Students, 52 Credits

Requirements

Writing, 4 credits

Quantitative Reasoning, 3 credits

Natural Science, 4 credits

Theology, 6 credits

History, 6 credits

Social Science, 6 credits

Literature, 6 credits

Fine Arts, 3 credits

Philosophy, 6 credits

Empirical Reasoning, 3-4 credits

Core Capstone Course, 3 credits

Other Graduation Requirements

1. Writing-Intensive Requirement, one flagged 3-credit course

Each student must complete at least one course designated as “Writing Intensive,” marked with the designation (W) in the course schedule. Students are strongly encouraged to choose one within their major or minor field of study.

1. Core Curriculum Capstone, one flagged 3-credit course

In this interdisciplinary course, students will explore a topic that is of both enduring importance and great contemporary significance. Specific topics will vary from section to section and over time, but the course will be consistent in at least two crucial regards. First, students will apply and deepen knowledge, skills, and perspectives established in earlier core courses as they investigate the topic via the lens of different disciplines and develop a cumulative project on the topic. Disciplines must be from at least two different divisional groupings (e.g., Humanities and Social Sciences; Science and Social Sciences). Secondly, whatever specific disciplines are featured, the course will be framed by essential theological and ethical concerns; in considering the topic, students will also be consciously considering how their Catholic, Benedictine education has called and prepared them to be better citizens and better neighbors. Students will effectively demonstrate how their education in the core curriculum has helped them to understand and engage with the world in a way that they could not have done previously.