Nov 09, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book 
    
Catalog Navigation
  Hill Book Home
  About the Hill Book
  Mission and History of Stonehill College
  Degrees and Accreditations
  Academics and the Curriculum
  Programs
  Courses
  Academic Policies and Procedures
  Academic Partnerships and Resources
  International and Experiential Learning Programs
  Financial Information and Scholarships
  Veterans Administration Services
  College Legal Notices
  Faculty and Staff
  Archived Hill Book Catalogs
HELP
2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book

Skyhawk Core Curriculum

Facebook this Page (opens a new window)
Tweet this Page (opens a new window)

Return to {$returnto_text} Return to: Programs

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)

WRITING

First Year Writing

First Year Writing courses focus on learning to write clearly and persuasively in small classes organized around engaging themes.

Writing in the Disciplines (WID)

Writing in the Disciplines courses, fulfilled in a student’s major, introduce students to the stylistic and scholarly conventions of particular disciplines and fields. If a specific WID is not articulated in the major, any of the courses below may be taken to fulfill the requirement (prerequisites apply).

WAYS OF KNOWING: SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES

Global Perspectives

Global Perspectives courses explore world views, cultures, and/or languages that are different from the dominant US/English-speaking culture.

History and Social Science

History and Social Science courses focus on human behavior and interactions, institutions and social groups, and ideas and ideologies in the past and present. Two different subject areas must be taken to complete this requirement.

Language, Arts, and Humanities

Language, Arts, and Humanities courses explore the deepest human concerns and ideas through the lenses of art, literature, language, philosophy, and religion. A minimum of two subject areas must be taken to complete this requirement.

Natural Science

Natural Science courses explore the natural world and scientific methods and theories.

Statistical Reasoning

Statistical Reasoning courses help students understand, interpret, evaluate, and organize quantitative and statistical data. If a specific statistics course is not articulated in the major, any of the courses below may be taken to fulfill the requirement (prerequisites apply).

MISSION

Catholic Thought and Action

Catholic Thought and Action courses focus on the role and insights of Catholic thinkers and Biblical traditions.

Diversity, Power, and Resistance

Diversity, Power, and Resistance courses examine how understanding power and privilege may help us better answer the challenging questions connected to power, injustice, oppression, and resistance.

Ethical Reasoning

Ethical Reasoning courses explore the plurality of ways in which human beings think and have thought about what is right and wrong and just and unjust.

CAPSTONE

Capstone

Capstone projects or courses are opportunities for students to deepen and extend their knowledge, individual interests, and skills, as they continue to build and shape their futures. Each capstone course is specific to the major - see your myAudit for your major’s specific capstone course.

Return to {$returnto_text} Return to: Programs


Facebook this Page (opens a new window)
Tweet this Page (opens a new window)