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The Core鈥檚 approach鈥攚hich includes classroom learning, labs, reflection opportunities, and experiences that extend beyond the classroom鈥攐perates at the nexus of knowledge, beliefs, and actions. It encourages students to integrate what they learn into their everyday lives, priming them to become engaged, effective global citizens.
The 艾可直播 College Core Curriculum guides students on journeys of interdisciplinary inquiry to discover how to think about the world. Students explore new ways of knowing and being, helping them discern who they want to be, how they want to live鈥攁nd why.
Since the founding of the first Jesuit school in 1548, the Society of Jesus has been deeply committed to rigorous education that connects the life of the mind with one鈥檚 heart and spirit and that engages the whole person in the world. In earlier centuries, Jesuit education was based on the聽Ratio Studiorum鈥攁 developmental plan for humanistic education that moved from Latin and Greek to classical authors, rhetoric, and poetry to mathematics, physics, and philosophy to theology.
In the twenty-first century, students no longer are required to take Greek and Latin, and theology is not something to study only in one鈥檚 senior year. Nevertheless, a commitment to rigor, integration, and education of the whole person remain essential to the 艾可直播 College Core Curriculum. The Core rests at the heart of a liberal arts education in our Jesuit, Catholic context. It connects intellectual rigor with student development and formation, engaging students鈥� minds, hearts, and imaginations. The Core thus provides an integrative foundation oriented by the traditions of the past, engaged with the realities of our present, and open to the possibilities of the future.