Undergraduate Catalog Justice Matters
Justice Matters: General Education Program COL 101 COLLEGE SUCCESS SEMINAR (1 CREDIT) Designed to guide first-year students in the transition to their college experience, all full-time first-year students are required to take this seminar. Learning Outcomes: 1. As a result of this course, students will demonstrate key skills necessary for college success (time management, study skills, and test-taking strategies) and lifelong learning (information literacy and career planning). 2. As a result of this course, students will know how to utilize key campus resources (Academic Support Services, Financial Aid, Health and Wellness, Information Technology and Resources, Holy Spirit Library, and the Registrar’s Office). 3. As a result of this course, students will demonstrate knowledge of relevant College policies (Code of Conduct, Academic Honesty, degree requirements, and FERPA). 4. As a result of this course, students will demonstrate knowledge of Cabrini’s heritage and traditions (St. Frances Cabrini, Core Values, Cabrini Day, and history of the College).
ENGAGEMENTS WITH THE COMMON GOOD COURSES (ECG) (9 CREDITS) Writing Literacy Learning Outcomes: 1. Students will use reading and writing to become more critical thinkers. 2. Students will enlarge the scope of their rhetorical knowledge (i.e., to understand how writing genres shape communication) 3. Students will develop a mastery of writing conventions. 4. Students will demonstrate the importance of process (drafting, editing, and revision) to the development of successful texts. 5. Students will develop the ability to assess effectively the quality of their own and other’s work. 6. Students will improve their communicative capacities in light of our social justice curriculum. ECG 100: This writing-intensive course approaches the Common Good from a variety of perspectives by exposing and interrogating the tension between the individual and society. It also examines the individual’s position in various communities: family nation, race, class, gender, and other categories of identity. A student may withdraw from ECG 100 only with the permission of the dean for academic affairs. All ECG courses have a grade requirement of “C” or above. Learning Outcomes: 1. Students will reflect upon and critique their own personal core values in light of theories of social justice. 2. Students will document, analyze, and critique their social identities and the values of the groups to which they belong. 3. Students will inspect their own spiritual, cultural, political,
and economic connectedness to other social groups to which they were not aware they were connected. 4. Students will explore historical and contemporary social groups, organizations, and political institutions that express a just and empathetic vision for community. 5. Students will understand the key terms of power, privilege, difference, dignity, solidarity, and equality. ECG 200: This experiential, writing-intensive course explores through texts and community partnerships how power, privilege, and difference affect solidarity, equality, and dignity— the essential elements of the Common Good. Students will expand their moral imaginations through their exploration of contemporary, historical, and cross-cultural causes of systemic justice and injustice in the world. All ECG courses have a grade requirement of “C” or above. Learning Outcomes: 1. Students will demonstrate a growing commitment to the practice of social justice and civic engagement by participating in a community partnership. 2. Students will analyze the complexity of the challenges faced by those who work and have worked for greater justice. 3. Students will reflect on and critique their participation in and learning from their community partnership experience—looking carefully at the complex realities of the mission and efforts of the particular group with which they work. 4. Students will differentiate between practicing charity and seeking justice through systemic change. 5. Students will articulate a personal philosophy of social justice grounded in their community involvement and in their intellectual understanding of philosophical, historical, and contemporary movements that sought to create social justice. ECG 300: This experiential, writing-intensive course helps students utilize their assets and the assets of community partners (local or global) in the pursuit of social justice. Students will work with community partners, contributing to research that will be used to expand the capacity and quality of the partner organizations while providing students with life-long tools for civic engagement. This research also may be used to advocate for systemic changes that will effect greater solidarity with local and global communities. Students will develop skills and strategies to advocate for policies with U.S. and international public and private decision makers. All ECG courses have a grade requirement of “C” or above. Learning Outcomes: 1. Students will reflect on the tensions among their individual beliefs and personal interests, political realities, and the common good in local and global communities. 2. Students will demonstrate a sustained commitment to the practice of social justice through community-driven projects designed to create social change.
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