CORE CURRICULUM

Effective with the entering class of Fall 2003, Pace University instituted a new Core Curriculum that includes such innovations as learning communities, writing enhanced courses, and civic engagement. This program is in effect for students who matriculate in an undergraduate degree beginning in the fall 2003 semester and beyond.

Pace University offers you an innovative, cutting-edge Core Curriculum designed to promote active learning, student success, and interaction with faculty. In your Core courses you will develop abilities that are essential to success in college study and in careers. The Pace Core allows for flexibility and choice, so you can fulfill the Core according to your own abilities and preferences.

EXPLORE! • INDULGE! • PURSUE YOUR INTERESTS!
TRY SOMETHING NEW! • HAVE FUN!

You will be enriched intellectually and personally in your Core courses. As a result, you will be prepared to become a lifelong learner as you respond to the inevitable changes and challenges of your professional and personal life.

Features of the Pace University Core include:

• Community Building
• Social Responsibility and Civic Engagement
• A Focus on Student Learning Outcomes
• Choice and Flexibility
• Ability to complete a minor in the Core

Contact us if you have any questions about the Pace University Core Curriculum.

Learning Outcomes of the Pace University Core Curriculum

All Core courses foster Communication and Analysis:

Communication - Learn to express ideas clearly and effectively.

Analysis - Think clearly and critically. Fuse experience, reason and training into considered judgment. Comprehend, interpret and analyze texts, processes, and media.

Core courses will explicitly and comprehensively incorporate and integrate a significant number of the general principles:

Intellectual depth, breadth, integration and application - Examine, organize and use disciplinary ways of knowing and apply them to specific issues and problems in intellectual, professional, and community life.

Effective citizenship - Be involved and responsible in the community. Act with informed awareness of contemporary issues in their historical contexts. Develop leadership abilities. Understand and value diversity within American culture. Integrate service and learning.

Social Interaction - Know how to get things done in committees, team projects and other group efforts. Listen to and understand the views of others and help reach conclusions.

Global, National, and International Perspectives - Become familiar with traditions that shape our world and nation. Read and discuss texts from diverse traditions and perspectives. Understand the cultural, economic, social, and biological interdependence of global and national life.

Valuing - Recognize different value systems. Understand one's own self and one's own values, and the values of others. Read important texts that foster humanistic values.

Problem solving - Figure out what the problem is and what is causing it. With others or alone, form strategies that work in different situations; then get done what needs to be done, evaluating effectiveness.

Aesthetic response - Study important works of the human imagination in order to develop esthetic and literary sensibility. Make and defend judgments about the quality of artistic expressions.

Information Literacy and Research - Locate, evaluate and make efficient and ethical use of information resources.

Scientific and quantitative reasoning - Understand the workings of the natural world. Develop problem-solving strategies using scientific and quantitative reasoning.

Technological Fluency - Make efficient use of technology for personal and professional needs. Use graphics, electronic media, computers and quantified data.