Provide High Quality Alternative General Education
Develop Academic and Cultural Literacy
Foster Community of Learning
Integrate Faith and Learning
Student Learning Outcomes:
Critical Thinking
Students will develop critical thinking, reasoning, and writing skills.
Interdisciplinary Understanding
Students will integrate methods of thinking and investigation across the academic disciplines. They will acquire flexible thinking by holding in tension point and counterpoint and understand belief in the context of numerous conflicting ideological paradigms. SAGES fuels creative thinking by taking an interdisciplinary approach in which subjects as varied as art, literature, music, philosophy, and religion may be studied side-by-side in a single course.
Spiritual Development
Students will integrate spiritual understanding with all academic subject matter in the SAGES curriculum. In addition to the dedicated religion courses required by SAGES, the SAGES curriculum address matters of spirituality as a significant component of classroom assignments and debate.
Commitment to Service
Students will manifest an active commitment to service. SAGES cultivates the merits of service by requiring Honors Students to participate in and log service activities each academic year.
Research Skills and Communication
Students will demonstrate research curiosity and competence in their major fields and ably communicate that research to an interdisciplinary audience.
