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Core Curriculum General Education Courses - Coggle Diagram
Core Curriculum General Education Courses
Challenges to Core Curriculum
absense of philosophical coherence
partime faculty
crowded class rooms
removal of theology
inaccurate understanding of the defintion "liberal" to mean anti-religious
The Enlightenment view
liberated from religion or any power over self
removal of theology
students don't understand the need to take these courses
few connections made with concepts
The Industrial Revolution
Technology Education striped away 2nd term undermining the liberal arts.
"Christian" irrational due to faith aspect
Christian Liberal Arts
Goals:
Theological exploration
Christ-centered higher education
Citizens of a heavenly kingdom
Community
Orthopraxy (right action towards fellow persons)
Coherence
Orthodoxy (right-thinking of God)
Production of Christian thinkers
Communal commitment to view learning as a devotional
God over self
Liberal Arts
Goals
The heartbeat of education
prepares students for specialized learning
Make rigorous thinkers
Changing of student lives and refine hearts
Free thinking
Higher level ability in analysis and thinking
Influencers
Craver
Application of Christian world view with academic pursuits helping us to understand the world and humankind's place in it.
Augustine
Spoils of Egypt
Exodus looting silver and gold from Egypt later melted down to use for God's temple furnishings. "proper use" redeemed from pagan service
used this event from Scripture for the relationship of Christian and non Christian thought
encouraged believers to reject falsehood and embrace truth
works: Confessions and Christian Doctrine
Tertullian and Syrian
believed pagan culture was to corrupt to be adapted to Christian cultural and irredeemable
7 Arts
1st level Trivium (3 roads)
Rhetoric
Logic
Grammer
2nd level Quadrivium (4 roads)
Geometry
Astronomy
Arithmetic
Music
After mastery of these roads students were allowed to pursue philosophy and theology
thought of as the "queen of sciences"