1. SEMINAR MODEL Seminar 400: Valuing the Liberal Arts SEMINAR COURSES
SUPPORTING COURSES
Supporting courses can use Self and Identity, Community, or the Global Challenges theme. All courses are at the 200 or 300 level (with the exception of Abstract Thinking).
Self and Identify
Students discuss this theme in their first year courses: Seminar 100 and Meaningful Lives. Students must complete at least one additional course designated with this theme (supporting courses).
Seminar 100:
Self and Identity
Self and Identity: Meaningful Lives
Seminar 100 is a prerequisite for Meaningful Lives
2-3 common
readings
Abstract Thinking
Abstract Thinking is a prerequisite for Scientific Analysis
Community:
Students discuss this theme in Seminar 200 and Theology. Students must complete at least one additional course designated with this theme (supporting courses).
Scientific Analysis
Seminar 200:
Community
Community:
Theology
2 common
readings
Artistic Knowledge
Seminar 200 is a prerequisite for Critical Interpretation
Creative Expression
Global Challenges
Students discuss this theme in seminar 300, their language courses, and Critical Interpretation. Critical Interpretation is a writing intensive course and requires Seminar 200 as a prerequisite. Students must complete at least one additional course designated with this theme (supporting courses).
Seminar 300:
Global Challenges
Global Challenges: Critical Interpretation
Writing intensive
Historical Perspective
Global Challenges: Language
Society and Culture
Integration:
The final seminar is a discussion-based topics course explored from the individual, community, and global perspectives. Also a place where students integrate their previous courses to explore and analyze multi-disciplinary approaches to the topic. Intermediate Common Good outcomes are met in this course.
Seminar 400:
Valuing the Liberal Arts
One common reading on the liberal arts