Common Core: The Human Journey immerses students in a coherent and integrated understanding of the arts and sciences. It develops critical/analytical skills and abilities as well as engages students in the Catholic intellectual tradition as rigorous intellectual inquiry.
The Human Journey focuses on four fundamental and enduring questions of human meaning and value
- What does it mean to be human?
- What does it mean to live a life of meaning and purpose?
- What does it mean to understand and appreciate the natural world?
- What does it mean to forge a more just society for the common good?
The Human Journey includes co-curricular lectures and events that will address the big questions such as
| "You have an exemplary gem of a new core curriculum which I think will be a [model] for other institutions...Because it is very values-centered it raises universal value issues, moral issues about justice, about the common good, about the integration across disciplines," said Caryn McTighe Musil, senior vice president of AAC&U |
What is love? - Why do people believe in God?
- Where do we come from?
from different disciplines and perspectives.
Common Core Courses
The Capstone Course
- RS/PHCC 104: The Human Search for Truth, Justice, and the Common Good
The Common Core Cross Disciplinary Colloquia
Fall 2007
- October 15: Humans and the Natural World: Inconvenient Truths
- October 29: The Common Good
- November 5: Fate, Freedom and Forging a Meaningful Life
- December 3: Violence and the Human Condition
Spring 2008
- February 11: Love and Lust
- February 25: Us and Them
- March 31: The Body Electric
- April 28: The Seduction of Power