的 普通的课程 includes nine required 课程. 的se 课程 are designed to help you develop critical academic skills, to understand and engage our multicultural and complex world, and to embrace the Christian story as you become biblically and theologically literate.
Each of the 课程 in the 普通的课程 includes common texts and objectives to ensure common learning. A 高级顶点 course in your major rounds out the 普通的课程.
作为SPU的一年级学生, you will begin the 普通的课程 in autumn quarter of your freshman year by taking the 1 credit UCOL 1000 大学讨论会. (转学生免修UCOL 1000.)世界 讨论会 意味着谈话, and the 大学讨论会 is a place where you can enter into our academic community by studying and conversing about an interesting problem or academic topic with a faculty instructor and student peers.
In your first year you will also complete the first of the three* required 大学基金会 课程. 的 three foundation 课程 are centered in the foundations of faith.
- In UFDN 1000: Christian 信仰, completed during the freshman year, you study and reflect 基督徒的生活， how our faith is formed, and what it means to live in Christian community.
- In UFDN 2000: 基督教圣经s, completed during the sophomore year, you will study the Bible and how the diverse collections of the Old and New Testaments narrate the story of God’s redemption, 和解, 以及创造的恢复. (Note that students who enter SPU with 90 or more credits complete the upper-division version of this class: UFDN 3001.)
- 在UFDN 3100:基督教神学, 在你大三或大四的时候, 你将学习教义 that are important to Christians and the ways they influence Christian thought and life.
*注意: Students who enter SPU with junior or senior standing are not required to take UFDN 1000. 这些学生完成ufdn3001, an upper-division version of 基督教圣经s, 其次是ufdn3100.
第一年赌博十大靠谱软件两个人就结束了 学术写作(WRI)研讨会课程.
- WRI 1000: Academic Inquiry and Writing, taught by 英语 faculty, 提供学术探究的介绍. Its central purpose is to immerse you in the types of reading, 写作, and critical thinking that will be required of you as a university student. 学生的最低成绩必须达到C- (1).7) in this course in order to fulfill the WRI 1000 Academic Writing requirement.
- WRI 1100: 学科研究及写作研讨会， 由整个校园的教师授课， builds on the skills acquired in WRI 1000 as you learn to research complex and important questions in a disciplinary context. 学生的最低成绩必须达到C- (1).7) in this course in order to fulfill the WRI 1100 Academic Writing requirement.
两个额外的 核心课程, taken after the freshman year, complete the 普通的课程. 的se 课程 look at the intersections of Christian faith with contemporary society and thought.
UCOR 2000: 现代全球体系的出现 explores how the modern global system was formed, with special emphasis on the history and patterns of human inequality that mark 今天’s societies. 的 course asks how we as Christians should live in a world that is both deeply divided and globally interwoven. You will study how the Christian vision for equality has broken through patterns of injustice, by introducing 和解 into contexts of inequality.
UCOR 3000:信仰、哲学和科学 explores challenging questions for the Christian faith that arise from science and modern philosophy, while teaching you to articulate responses to such questions in thoughtful, 通知, 理性的, 还有慈善的方式.
的 高级顶点 课程是每个学术专业的一部分.
注: 如果你被录取了 特殊的程序，或者如果你是荣誉的一部分: 大学学者 program, you follow a different curriculum specific to those programs.
如果你完成了 直接转让协议(DTA) 大专或同等学历, you are required to complete only UFDN 3001 and UFDN 3100 in the 普通的课程, as well as the 高级顶点 course in your major.