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General Education Goals and Outcomes
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Program Goals
- Students draw conclusions about how the human person’s vision of his identity has changed over the course of history in the Western world and of how this vision has had positive or negative effects upon his relationships with himself, the physical world, society and God.
- Students develop a profound knowledge of the human person from a Christian viewpoint as a substantial unity of body and soul affected in his maturation by environmental, physiological, affective, and spiritual factors. They gain insight to guide others towards personal fulfillment.
- Students understand, value and use the methodologies of the arts and humanities; the sciences, including mathematics and empirical methods of inquiry; and the social sciences, as different avenues of arriving at truth.
- Students develop a basic knowledge of the principles of economics, finance and administrative processes, and the use of technology effectively.
Program Outcomes
- Students identify the universal attributes that characterize the human person throughout history.
- Students explain and apply a Christian anthropological understanding of the human person.
- Students identify the contribution of important historical, social, political, literary and philosophical figures and movements of Western Civilization.
- Students distinguish between the physiological, psychological and spiritual factors that influence the person’s development and the formation of a balanced and mature personality.
- Students classify the stages of human development with a focus on the adolescent and young adult periods.
- Students compare and contrast psychological theories.
- Students understand and employ pedagogical principles.
- Students apply principles of Christian humanism to contemporary and personal experiences and problems.
- Students will be able to solve basic math problems.
- Students understand concepts used to describe the physical world.
- Students use basic information technology effectively.
- Students apply scientific, mathematic, economic and administrative concepts to world situations, especially in the context of schools and other service institutions.
- Students develop the capacity to appreciate a variety of audio and visual art forms and have the ability to identify elements of artistic composition in music and painting.
- Students develop the capacity to classify the artist’s use of technique while retaining the moral freedom to judge the artist’s message.
- Students distinguish and integrate the knowledge acquired in one discipline and relate it to others.
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