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Where Learning Meets Purpose
Faith and Reason
The animating vision of UST originates from our undergraduate Core Curriculum. The Core integrates the classical liberal arts within an order of study that aims ultimately at human flourishing in this life and the next. The University, through its Core, seeks to guide students to an integrated vision of reality that is illuminated by faith and reason.
The journey that each student undertakes in UST’s Core creates an opportunity for students to consider fundamental questions about the meaning and purpose of life, questions that everyone—no matter his or her background—asks at one time or another. These questions are part of what makes us human and how we answer these questions will give shape and purpose to our lives.
Asking What Matters Most
Life's Big Questions
Building on the wisdom of the Core, majors at UST focus students’ knowledge and skills through particular perspectives and disciplines. If the Core offers a vista at once broad and deep, UST majors give specific shape to each student’s vision and prepare him or her for further study or professional service in the world.
Wisdom Meets Professional Purpose
A Life of Meaning
There is certainly a practical purpose for integrating life’s big questions into professional study. Students who have undertaken this journey through the Core and their major disciplines will be better doctors, engineers, artists, or teachers. They will be the confident candidates for medical or law school that are most attractive to admissions committees and will find that they are hired and promoted just as often for the wisdom they gained through the Core as for the professional expertise they gained through their majors. A course of study that integrates the wisdom of the Core with professional study can become a path to a meaningful life, professional success, and the opportunity to leave the world a better place.
Engaging with the Core
Academics Infused by Core Curriculum
Our Core Curriculum underpins all that we do at UST. Yes, it is the cornerstone of our undergraduate academic life, but it also creates an opportunity for people to have a shared educational journey across disciplines. Similar books are read, students can engage in shared content in their classes across disciplines and professors can collaborate on complex interdisciplinary topics—all for the good of human flourishing for our students.