The Core Experience
The Core Experience
The Bethany College Core Experience is so much more than just a list of required classes. It is comprehensive program that combines interdisciplinary, academic, and co-curricular endeavors, to engage students in the fundamental skills, knowledge, and curiosity necessary to lead lives integrating faith, learning, and service; as well as supply a solid, shared base of experience for each student to build the rest of their academic experience upon. It is also possible to expand the Bethany Core Experience into our General Studies Major.
Interdisciplinary Experience
The Bethany College Core Experience is an interdisciplinary endeavor. Students will be exposed to a variety of teaching and learning styles as they discover and understand connections across disciplines. The interdisciplinary courses will address the following foundational competencies: Discovery and Integration; Communication; Critical, Analytical and Creative Reasoning; Information and Technical Literacy; and Religious Literacy. With this comprehensive approach to the competencies and their respective learning outcomes, students will be able to demonstrate growth in fundamental intellectual skills. Specifically this includes:
Discovery and Integration:
Critical, Analytical, and Creative Reasoning:
Information and Technical Literacy:
Communication:
Religious Literacy:
The Core Experience
The Bethany College Core Experience is so much more than just a list of required classes. It is comprehensive program that combines interdisciplinary, academic, and co-curricular endeavors, to engage students in the fundamental skills, knowledge, and curiosity necessary to lead lives integrating faith, learning, and service; as well as supply a solid, shared base of experience for each student to build the rest of their academic experience upon. It is also possible to expand the Bethany Core Experience into our General Studies Major.
Interdisciplinary Experience
The Bethany College Core Experience is an interdisciplinary endeavor. Students will be exposed to a variety of teaching and learning styles as they discover and understand connections across disciplines. The interdisciplinary courses will address the following foundational competencies: Discovery and Integration; Communication; Critical, Analytical and Creative Reasoning; Information and Technical Literacy; and Religious Literacy. With this comprehensive approach to the competencies and their respective learning outcomes, students will be able to demonstrate growth in fundamental intellectual skills. Specifically this includes:
Discovery and Integration:
Critical, Analytical, and Creative Reasoning:
Information and Technical Literacy:
Communication:
Religious Literacy:
Bethany Quest
Small group discussions and integrated activities form the basis of the Quest component of the Bethany College Core Experience. Using the College’s six core values of community, hospitality, servant leadership, excellence, sustainable living, and integrity, students will discover ways in which these values intersect with their lives. Specifically, this includes:
Personal Growth and Accountability:
Service and Leadership:
College Requirements
The College Requirement courses expose students to a breadth of knowledge that is essential to a liberal arts education and equip students to view their lives in broader terms. Specifically, this includes:
Expansive Inquiry:
General Studies Major
Mission Statement:
The mission of the General Studies program is to provide students with a diverse and flexible program of study that will develop the necessary knowledge and skills to pursue a variety of career opportunities.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Begin the journey down your path.
OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS
J.E. and L.E. Mabee Welcome Center
800.826.2281 x 8113
785.227.3380 x 8113
admissions@bethanylb.edu
OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS
J.E. and L.E. Mabee Welcome Center
800.826.2281 x 8113
785.227.3380 x 8113
admissions@bethanylb.edu