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Course Description:
COR 401 is a senior capstone
for a Greenville College liberal arts education. The course is designed to
help students understand the integrative nature of that education. It brings
together students and faculty in a collaborative experience that integrates
multiple disciplines, values with learning, and theory with practice. This
is accomplished by focusing on a real world issue within the framework of
a biblical worldview. COR 401 builds on students’ exposure to both introductory
general education courses distributed across the disciplines and on their
advanced courses within specific disciplines. But it goes beyond both to
lead students into advanced integrative studies. The course therefore attempts
to help students understand how both breadth and depth of education are means
to real integration and wholistic truth. Students work in small groups to
produce a collaborative studies thesis/project, in order to accomplish the
course objectives.
Prerequisites: senior status and completion of other
required COR courses.
Course Objectives
Students completing COR 401 should be able to:
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Institutional Objectives:
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1. Recognize that a Christian liberal arts education leads to wholistic problem solving
which takes into account faith and values, as well as the breadth and
depth of knowledge gained through general education and major field studies.
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1, 3 and 9
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2. Recognize that real world issues are always more complex than we individually think
and that they are best approached by a community of varied investigators
working together.
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2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7
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3. Recognize that a biblical worldview seeks to be comprehensive and thus transcend
the limits of specific intellectual or cultural perspectives.
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1, 2 and 9
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4. Articulate both the specific knowledge limitations of their own disciplines as they
solve problems and the advantages of interdisciplinary collaboration
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2, 3, and 7
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5. Successfully work with wide variety of people as they face the challenge of talking
and listening across disciplines while drawing upon the best skills of
their own disciplines.
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3, 5, and 6
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6. Synthesize information and knowledge from scripture, tradition, reason, and experience,
in order to generate possible solutions for significant real world issues.
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1, 2 and 9
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- Seek truth. Seek it dynamically, integratively, comprehensively, biblically, and historically,
with discipline and scholarship; and seek meaning in truth through recognition
that it proceeds from God.
- Learn to think critically and creatively. Develop such thinking processes as induction;
deduction; problem solving; quantitative reasoning; intuition; communication;
interpretation; aesthetic discernment; creative expression; and perceptive
reading, viewing, and listening.
- Understand and value the wholeness of creation. Integrate knowledge from many areas of study into a comprehensive
point of view. Learn to discern truth, goodness, and beauty; take interest
in ideas regardless of their immediate utility; and exercise stewardship
over one's physical and biological environment.
- Understand our world. Know the basic content and processes of the physical and biological world, the
human race, our civilization, our society, our technological environment,
and other cultures.
- Respect human life and understand the human condition. Recognize humankind's best and worst
capacities; affirm persons of all ethnic and racial backgrounds as creative
bearers of God's image; respond to and love others, and work for reconciliation.
- Understand and apply basic social structures and processes. Recognize society's diverse manifestations,
develop cultural sensitivity, and communicate effectively and responsibly.
- Develop self-understanding. Exercise integrity of character, personal expression, and stewardship
of self; appreciate the value of one's own physical and psychological well-being;
and recognize learning as a life-long process.
- Value personal accomplishment. Recognize talent as from God and accept responsibility for developing
creative skills, demonstrate competence in at least one area of study, learn
to make sound judgements, and develop a sense of vocation, which gives meaningful
direction to one's life.
- Respond to God's expression. Understand the Judeo-Christian worldview as made
manifest through Scripture, Tradition, and Experience; fully embrace one's
role in the Body of Christ; respond to God's initiating grace; be sensitive
to the Spirit of God at work in the individual, the church, and the world;
affirm the values of truth, goodness, beauty, and the glory of God; express
those values in responsible decisions and action; and join in God's creative
and redemptive activity by becoming a servant leader.
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