Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University’s New Core Curriculum

Implementation Phase: 2007-2009

Core Course Syllabus Approval Form for the 2009-10 academic year

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Core Upcoming Deadlines

• June 30, 2008
• • Core Syllabi and Syllabus Approval Forms due for faculty teaching Pilot courses in 2008-09
  • Core Syllabi and Syllabus Approval Forms due from first cycle Honorarium recipients
• October 15, 2008
• • Pathways Facilitators' Honoraria and Pathways Proposals due
  • Honorarium Proposals due for Curriculum Transformation and Development
  • Core Syllabi and Syllabus Approval Forms due for courses to be taught in 2009-2010 (to meet Undergraduate Bulletin deadline)
    
• January 30 and April 30, 2009
  • Honorarium Proposals, Pathways Proposals
  • Facilitators' Proposals
  • Syllabi & Approval Forms
    
• Fall 2009
  • Launch new core for first year students
    

Educating students of Competence, Conscience, and Compassion for a globalizing world

Santa Clara’s new Core Curriculum prepares students for professional excellence, responsible citizenship, and service to society, especially on behalf of those in greatest need. Developed by a faculty committee during the 2006-2007 academic year, and approved by the Santa Clara University Board of Trustees in May 2007, the new Core will be phased in over a two-year period. Students entering in fall quarter 2009 will be the first group whose studies will be structured by the new Core. Students who entered Santa Clara before fall 2009 will continue to be governed by the requirements of the Core Curriculum in effect when they entered the University.

A series of Curriculum Development Grants and workshops will be offered during the 2007-08 and 2008-09 academic years to support the transformation of old courses and the development of new courses for the Core.

The new Core provides the common learning that our students need to become citizens of Competence, Conscience, and Compassion in a globalizing world. Emphasizing knowledge, habits of mind and heart, and engagement with the world, the Core explores relationships among ideas and cultures; it encourages intentional choices that bring coherence to the undergraduate experience; and it develops students’ commitments to intellectual inquiry, moral reflection, and active engagement.

Frequently Asked Questions about the New Core Curriculum