Foundation Course and Capstone Seminar – Mount Aloysius College The Mount Aloysius College Foundation Course and Capstone Seminar provide Mount Aloysius College students with the opportunities to experience interdisciplinary instruction and to explore and reflect upon the implicit and explicit values of self and the contemporary world. Our Cultural Literacy: A Seminar in Learning, Service, and the Mercy Tradition (CLS) course is designed for all students. It is a required course for all students. A student who has: a. completed fewer than twenty-four (24) college credits prior to enrollment at Mount Aloysius College must take CLS 101. b. completed more than twenty-four (24) college credits and is a transfer student, must take CLS 102. c. failed CLS 101, must repeat CLS 101 during the next semester. This course is designed to integrate freshmen into our community of thinkers and learners and to provide Mount Aloysius students with a common academic experience. Within a highly interactive learning environment, the course challenges students to examine their convictions and to open themselves to the convictions of their peers. The interdisciplinary approach offers a broad array of readings and includes six convocations, activities that may feature nationally recognized speakers, visiting major cities of national interest, as well as participating in campus-wide activities. The Capstone Seminar is required for all students seeking a baccalaureate degree and provides the opportunity for students to demonstrate their abilities to integrate and synthesize scientific, behavioral, social, historical, cultural, ethical and moral concepts. Students are asked to draw from their college experience, demonstrating an in-depth understanding of a discipline and the ability to complete a research project. Together the Mount Aloysius College Foundation Course and the Capstone Seminar will foster the continuous exercise of students’ critical thinking over the years of their connection with Mount Aloysius College and throughout their lives.
Honors Program The Mount Aloysius College Honors Program is designed for students of all academic disciplines who enjoy critical and synthetic thinking and problem solving within an environment of highly interactive learning. The goal of the Honors Program is to create a community of scholars desiring to enhance each other's understanding of human living within our world. Admission into the Honors Program is dependent upon acceptance into Mount Aloysius College. Entry to the Mount Aloysius College Honors Program will be based initially upon the student's minimum combined SAT score of 1050 (25 ACT score) or a combined SAT score of 1000 (23 ACT score) and a high school QPA of at least 3.6. These students will be placed into the Mount Aloysius College Foundation Course: Honors Section. Students with high school QPAs of 3.6 or above may request and complete the Student Application Form for Mount Aloysius College Honors Program and his/her candidacy will be considered by an Honors Committee. An interview with the Honors Program Director is not required but is highly recommended. Freshman students who have successfully completed one semester of study at Mount Aloysius College may be recommended to participate in the Honors Program through the Faculty Recommendation for Mount Aloysius College Honors Program Form. These students will be notified of their recommendation and will be invited to complete the Student Application Form for Mount Aloysius College Honors Program. The application will be reviewed by the Honors Program Director and students will be notified concerning their acceptance prior to spring registration.
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