Core Curriculum
Salve Regina's Core Curriculum allows students to contemplate the compatibility of faith, reason and the ideals of the Catholic tradition, including the distinctive values lived by the Sisters of Mercy. Core courses are designed to deepen students' knowledge in the liberal arts and sciences and refine their skills of inquiry, analysis and communication. Consisting of 41-44 credits of coursework, the Core Curriculum is required for all undergraduate students.
The Core Curriculum challenges students to cultivate intellectual freedom and responsibility by making their own curricular choices through conversation with advisors, faculty and fellow students. The path students chart through the Core Curriculum is their own. Students are free to choose much of it, and are also responsible for their choices. Students are responsible to themselves in the sense of owning their own choices, and are also personally responsible to form their own views and do justice to the views of others, the material they study and the wider realities of the social and natural world.