Fr. Kevin Spicer, C.S.C.
May Hall 227
508-565-1090
kspicer@stonehill.edu
The Skyhawk Core Curriculum fosters inquiry, exploration, and discovery, anchored in the Holy Cross Catholic social justice tradition of compassion and concern for the dignity and welfare of every person. With a flexible foundation in the liberal arts, our students partner with a team of faculty and advisors to develop the skills, knowledge, and character to think, act, and lead with the courage to help create a more just and compassionate world.
Education Foundation
The Stonehill Skyhawk Core Curriculum is comprised of four foundational dimensions:
Writing
Writing is central to a Stonehill education. Stonehill’s writing courses enable students to think through and explain complicated materials clearly and persuasively, developing strong arguments and powerful narratives.
Ways of Knowing: Sciences and Humanities
A key aspect of the Skyhawk Core Curriculum consists of courses in the sciences and humanities. Ways-of-Knowing courses raise essential human questions and provide social, historical, and scientific contexts for making sense of the world around us.
Mission: Justice and Compassion
At the heart of our curriculum stands our commitment to the inherent dignity of each person and to the creation of a more just and compassionate world. Mission courses help students wrestle with questions about justice, injustice, compassion, and cruelty, how to think creatively and critically about them, and to discover the resources that are available within our world’s deep ethical and religious traditions.
Capstone
The Stonehill academic experience culminates in an integrative capstone project or experience, tailored to the individual student’s major, goals, and interests.
Recommended Course Sequencing and Guidelines
First Year
First Year Writing Seminar (1 course)
Language, Arts, and Humanities (1 course)
First Year or Sophomore Year
Diversity, Power and Resistance (1 course)
History and Social Science (1 course)
Language, Arts, and Humanities (1 course)
Sophomore Year
Catholic Thought and Action (1 course)
Sophomore or Junior Year
Writing in the Disciplines (1 course)
Junior Year
Ethical Reasoning (1 course)
Any Year
Global Perspectives (satisfied through Language, Arts, and Humanities or History and Social Science)
History and Social Science (1 course)
Language, Arts and Humanities (2 courses)
Natural Science (1 course)
Statistical Reasoning (1 course)
Senior Year
Capstone (1 course)
