Students who major in the School of Arts and Sciences will:
- Explore the significance of God and the spiritual dimensions of human existence vis-á-vis the created order and the works of humankind, and articulate the importance and influence of Franciscan values by constructing a personal philosophy of responsibility that promotes a more just and humane society with reverence for God’s creation.
- Formulate and apply lifelong learning skills required for personal development and ethical living by integrating the intellect, emotion, body, and spirit in modeling lives of responsibility to self and others.
- Utilize both new and traditional methods of communication and creative expression to articulate and interpret experiences through reading, writing, listening, speaking, making, and/or performing.
- Apply skills of analysis, judgment, interpretation, space synthesis, and evaluation through critical reading, writing, listening, seeing, making, and/or problem solving.
- Locate, evaluate, and use information obtained from a variety of sources according to its accuracy, authority, currency, integrity, legality, objectivity, and adapt that information for a specific purpose to generate a particular original product, presentation, or performance.
- Implement technology to facilitate learning and professional development, and to advance discipline-specific knowledge and skills.
- Represent and interpret quantitative/qualitative information symbolically, graphically, numerically, verbally, and in written form, and use inductive reasoning to draw general and supportable conclusions from data.
- Explore cross-cultural issues, ideologies, perspectives, space and articulate the contributions that people of diverse backgrounds and disciplines bring to an interdependent and multicultural world.