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Effectively forming a core for the curriculum, Mission courses embrace disciplinary or interdisciplinary frames to develop students’ engagement with key areas of the college’s values and mission statements. They serve a scaffolding function by reinforcing and developing ideas learned in Foundations courses. These courses are aimed at second- and third-year students and are typically taught at the 200-level or 300-level without prerequisites. They may be taught by any department.
Effectively forming a core for the curriculum, Mission courses embrace disciplinary or interdisciplinary frames to develop students’ engagement with key areas of the college’s values and mission statements. They serve a scaffolding function by reinforcing and developing ideas learned in Foundations courses. These courses are aimed at second- and third-year students and are typically taught at the 200-level or 300-level without prerequisites. They may be taught by any department.
Local Studies
Local Studies
These courses focus on subjects within the historical and present boundaries of the United States while recognizing the nation is a contested and contingent formation encompassing diverse populations. These courses advance students’ understanding of core characteristics from Foundations courses.
LS Course Characteristics
LS Course Characteristics
Courses with a Local Studies designation will
provide students with opportunities to explore and critically evaluate consequential issues in the United States from multiple perspectives.
investigate issues in the context of civic engagement and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
explore and evaluate issues in the context of the societies being studied.
Global Studies
Global Studies
These courses ask students to consider subjects in political and social contexts outside the boundaries of the United States. By acquainting students with the diversity of thoughts, beliefs, and values of non-US societies, these courses advance students’ understanding of core characteristics from Foundations courses.
GS Course Characteristics
GS Course Characteristics
Courses with a Global Studies designation will
1. provide students with opportunities to explore and critically evaluate consequential issues outside of the United States.
2. investigate global issues in the context of civic engagement and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
3. explore and evaluate such issues in the context of the societies being studied.
Ethical Decision-Making
Ethical Decision-Making
These courses explore ethical decision-making and its relation to our responsibilities to ourselves and others. They generate an understanding of ethics and value systems and practices. Ethical Decision-Making courses revisit some of the key issues discussed in the Foundations courses.
EDM Course Characteristics
EDM Course Characteristics
Courses with an Ethical Decision-Making designation will
1. introduce a disciplinary or general theoretical framework for ethical decision-making.
2. apply the framework to ethical issues to explore our moral responsibilities to ourselves and others.
3. address one or more of the key issues discussed in the Foundations courses: civic engagement; well-being; or diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.
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