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. Our Core Program encourages faculty to place each subject of study within a New Church spiritual context. The program develops across four years, with every course offered addressing one or more of the following seven core goals in direct or indirect ways, helping each student to:
- Explore a life informed by the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the theological writings of Emanuel Swedenborg
- Nurture an inquiring spirit in the classroom, and well beyond, in relation to God, society, nature, and self
- Foster personal ethics and encourage responsibility for the well-being of all others
- Explore the diversity and commonality of human experience and values in order to enrich understanding of what is human
- Develop liberal arts skills in critical analysis and reasoning, written and oral communication, information literacy, quantitative reasoning, scientific reasoning, and technological competency
- Hone these skills in a focused field of study
- Apply critical thinking skills across disciplines
Taken together, these goals underscore our commitment to all three dimensions of the Core Program: a New Church worldview, liberal arts perspectives, and skills associated with the ways educated people participate in society.