GEP Signature Courses
The Jesuit Tradition Common Core
Moral Foundations |
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Faith, Justice, and the Catholic Tradition |
The Cultural Legacy Common Core
Texts and Contexts |
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Forging the Modern World |
The Signature Variable Core
One Faith and Reason Course
This requirement can be satisfied by any course certified as a "Faith and Reason" course. Such courses provide students with appropriate intellectual and epistemological frameworks for exploring both the tension and cohesion of faith and reason in the contemporary world. Moral Foundation (PHL 154) and Faith, Justice, and the Catholic Tradition (THE 154) are prerequisites.
One First-Year Seminar Course (This course must be taken in the first year, either fall or spring semester)
The First-Year Seminar is designed to introduce students to the adventures of learning in a college context. The challenge and excitement of intellectual exploration of a topic of shared interest is its prime purpose. Its only prerequisites are a genuine interest in the topic and a willingness to contribute to the success of the course through diligent individual effort and enthusiasm. First-Year Seminars, which are limited in enrollment size, focus in depth on a question or topic of disciplinary or interdisciplinary interest. By means of its specific focus, the seminar will explore the thinking, research, and writing practices in a particular field(s). Discussion based on careful reading of texts, writing assignments, both refection and research types, and in-class student presentations will be supplemented, as appropriate, with activities including guest lecturers, museum trip, attendance at local cultural events and or field excursions.
Note: For non-transfer students, these six signature courses must be completed at SJU. Transfer students may use transfer credits to meet the requirement for Text and Contexts and/or Forging the Modern World if course equivalency is approved by the CAS Dean's Office. Transfer students are exempt from the First-Year Seminar requirement.