St. 博纳旺蒂尔大学 is a Catholic university dedicated to educational excellence in the Franciscan tradition. We enhance the lives of our students and help them prepare for their futures by providing experiences that build knowledge, skills, and character.
Our university has its roots in the traditional liberal arts and sciences, and the general education curriculum values that tradition within the context of the Catholic and Franciscan intellectual heritage. Its aim is to provide students with foundational knowledge for all majors that aligns with the university’s six student learning goals:
- Basic knowledge of the liberal arts and sciences, specialized knowledge in a particular area of study, and the ability to integrate knowledge from different academic disciplines.
- 建设性思考的能力, critically, and creatively, including competencies in analytic inquiry, 定量的素养, 信息素养, 证据推理, 以及解决问题的能力.
- Competence in multimodal communication with special emphasis on oral, written, 以及数字通信, including an understanding of key issues relating to their use.
- A disposition to understand societal issues, seek solutions, and become responsible citizens.
- An ability to engage with ultimate questions of a metaphysical, theological, 哲学本质.
- A basic understanding of the Catholic tradition and an appreciation of the intellectual and moral virtues expressed in the Franciscan movement (e.g., humility, compassion, 正义与和平, love of wisdom, and the inherent goodness of all creation).
Within the framework of these goals and the university’s mission, the general education curriculum offers students an educational experience that encourages them to examine critically their own cultural assumptions and to explore openly and fairly other perspectives and cultures. This deepening appreciation of their own heritage and sensitive openness to alternative frameworks should prepare students to take their place as thinking, moral individuals in a global community.