Goals and Student Learning Outcomes

Program Goals:

1. Provide High Quality Alternative General Education
2. Develop Academic and Cultural Literacy
3. Foster Community of Learning
4. Integrate Faith and Learning

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Critical Thinking
   1. Students will develop critical thinking, reasoning, and writing skills.
2. Interdisciplinary Understanding
   1. Students will integrate methods of thinking and investigation across the academic disciplines. They will acquire flexible thinking by holding in tension point and counterpoint and understand belief in the context of numerous conflicting ideological paradigms. SAGES fuels creative thinking by taking an interdisciplinary approach in which subjects as varied as art, literature, music, philosophy, and religion may be studied side-by-side in a single course.
3. Spiritual Development
   1. Students will integrate spiritual understanding with all academic subject matter in the SAGES curriculum. In addition to the dedicated religion courses required by SAGES, the SAGES curriculum address matters of spirituality as a significant component of classroom assignments and debate.
4. Commitment to Service
   1. Students will manifest an active commitment to service. SAGES cultivates the merits of service by requiring Honors Students to participate in and log service activities each academic year.
5. Research Skills and Communication
   1. Students will demonstrate research curiosity and competence in their major fields and ably communicate that research to an interdisciplinary audience.