Intellectual Foundations

1. Students will be able to reflect on basic questions of life with the goal of understanding the world and one’s place in it.
    
2. Students will be able to articulate and defend critically informed values.
    
3. Students will be able to recognize and demonstrate creative thought in producing answers to individual and social questions.

Students will be able to employ close reading, analysis and discussion (oral and written) of significant primary texts* in literature, philosophy, religion, rhetoric, and journalism.

*“Texts” are broadly defined to include written works, audiovisual works, and related forms of expression.