• Overview
• Degrees & Areas of Study
  • Core Program
    • Philosophy
    • Goals
    • Requirements (Skills & Perspectives)
  • Majors
  • Certification in Secondary Education
  • Associate in Arts Degree
• Experiential Learning
• Faculty
• Catalog and Course Information
• Support
• Academic Forms & Downloads
• Faculty Resources

Core Program Goals

Bryn Athyn College prepares willing students to become reflective individuals and useful citizens, conscious of spiritual reality and responsive to local, national, and international contexts. The Core Program encourages faculty to place each subject of study within a New Church spiritual context. The program develops across four years and involves every course addressing one or more of the following six goals in direct or indirect ways:

1. Strengthen analytical, communication, quantitative, and information skills
2. Develop liberal arts skills in a focused field of study
3. Build cross-disciplinary evaluative skills
4. Explore the diversity and commonality of human experience and values in order to enrich understanding of what is human.
5. Nurture an inquiring spirit in the classroom and well beyond in relation to God, society, nature, and self
6. Foster personal ethics and encourage responsibility for the wellbeing of others.

Taken together, these goals underscore our commitment to all three dimensions of the Core program: a New Church world view, liberal arts perspectives, and skills associated with the ways educated people participate in society.