Academic Catalog 2024-2025

Academic Catalog 2024 - 2025

The measurable Student Outcomes that are derived from and define the Beacon undergraduate experience are: • Beacon College graduates will have strengthened the Executive Function skills of initiation, planning and organization, time management, goal setting, follow-through, and flexible thinking; • Beacon College graduates will possess the enhanced Emotional Intelligence skills of self awareness, empathy, self-regulation, and self-motivation; • Beacon College graduates will have strengthened Social Intelligence skills , prominent among these being the management of relationships, interpersonal effectiveness and communication, and an increased awareness of the benefits of having a service orientation; • Beacon College graduates will possess and exhibit enhanced Critical Thinking skills , including the dispositions of truth-seeking, open-mindedness, analytical and systematic analysis, inquisitiveness, and maturity of judgment; • Beacon College graduates will have mastered the Community’s general core requirements (liberal arts foundation) and at least one disciplinary curriculum (Major concentration) and, in so doing, will be awarded an accredited Baccalaureate or Associate degree; and • As a result of their undergraduate experience, Beacon College students will have assumed a leadership role in preparing for an “abundant life” through their ongoing investment in the examination and selection of Occupations, Vocations, and Avocations that are meaningful to them and their personal ambitions. The College’s Core Developmental Theme The Developmental Theme that defines Beacon’s “holistic” undergraduate curriculum takes its identity from the Latin inscription that adorns the College’s official seal: Illumen Vitae Abundantiorem ( Illuminating the Life Abundant ). In advancing this thematic cause, the co-curricular and extracurricular elements of our academic offerings have become as crucial to program effectiveness and student success as these are to the delivery of the disciplinary content in our classrooms. In such a baccalaureate culture, all that surrounds our students during their undergraduate experience – in the formal instructional spaces, the student residences, the campus, and the world beyond – are united intentionally in the creation of a learning laboratory that calls upon our students and empowers them to pursue the “Life Abundant.” At Beacon College, we believe that this “abundant life” embraces and balances the following features: • Intellectual Challenge; • A Code of Ethical and Moral Principles; • The Healthy Mooring of Family Ties, Trusted Friendships, and Positive Social Networks; • A Lifestyle of Wellness across All Domains; • Worthy Work to Sustain an Independent Lifestyle; • Service in the Cause of Bettering the Larger Community; and • Dreams and Ambitions that Demand a Devotion to Life-long Learning.

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