1. The Core Curriculum and Advisement at SNC
Dr. Michael Rosewall
Associate Academic Dean and
Professor of Music
June 2017

2. OVERVIEW Graduation Requirements
Our Guiding Principles in Advising Students
How Advisement Works at SNC
The Liberal Arts and the Core Curriculum

3. GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS
Completion of the Gateway Seminar
128 credit hours
(8 semesters, each with four 4-credit courses)
Fulfill the requirements of at least one major
Fulfill the requirements of the Core Curriculum
Minimum 2.00 cumulative GPA and
2.00 GPA across all courses taken in the major

4. OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES IN ADVISING STUDENTS
College students are transitioning from adolescence to adult responsibilities and opportunities
Advisement is an expression of SNC’s commitment to students’ personal, spiritual and intellectual development
Advisors are a key institutional resource made available to students

5. OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES IN ADVISING STUDENTS
Advisement leads to the creation and maintenance of an academic plan that translates life and career goals into a program of courses
The advisor/advisee relationship deepens during a student’s time at the College, with benefits that extend long beyond graduation

6. How Advisement Works at SNC
Summer Advisement – new student orientation and registration
In the fall, each student is assigned a permanent academic advisor, usually a faculty member
All classes are cancelled for two days each semester, allowing substantial time for individual advisor-advisee meetings
Students and advisors discuss personal and career plans, and determine a course plan for the remaining semesters
Advisors provide many forms of academic and personal advice and mentorship

7. What does “Liberal Arts” mean?
Classical Antiquity: Essential skills for a free person to know in order to take an active part in civic life as a virtuous, knowledgeable and articulate person.
The Liberal Arts as of the 5th Century A.D.
Trivium: Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic
Quadrivium: Arithmetic, Music, Geometry and Astronomy

8. The Core Curriculum Programmatic Goals Foundation Courses
General Core Requirements
Advanced Core Requirements

9. Core Curriculum Goals
The acquisition of intellectual and cognitive skills
Understanding the world and one’s place in it
Understanding religious and spiritual dimensions of life
The development of creativity and self-expression
The development of personal character and virtue

10. Foundation Courses To be taken during a student’s first year:
Gateway Seminar
Theological Foundations
Philosophical Foundations
Required by the end of the second year:
Quantitative Reasoning
Writing Intensive Course
Required by the end of the third year:
Second Language Competency

11. General Core Requirement Areas May be taken any time
Beyond Borders
Catholic Imagination
Difference and Diversity
Expression and Interpretation
Individual and Society
Physical and Natural World
Western Tradition
One of the above courses must be a Writing Intensive course

12. Advanced Core Requirements Must be taken during the Junior or Senior Year
Three courses from any General Core Area
300 or 400 level

13. QUESTIONS?