Build the FOUNDATION for a dynamic education, a meaningful career, and a fulfilling life.
The Foundations Program will provide you with a Catholic liberal arts education that prepares you for thoughtful and meaningful engagement with your majors and minors, your co-curricular activities, your careers, and your lives more broadly. Enlivened by the Catholic affirmation of the harmony of faith and reason, Foundations will immerse you in multiple modes of inquiry as you boldly seek the true, the good, and the beautiful wherever they can be found. By encouraging you to pursue truth in the company of friends, Foundations will help you develop academically, emotionally, personally, and spiritually. In these ways, the Foundations Program will further Assumption University’s mission of forming you into a person known for intellectual seriousness, thoughtful citizenship, and devotion to the common good.
“I have had many important conversations about humanity and how we interact with the world. The Foundations Program has allowed me to discuss questions that I never would have explored on my own. Why is the meaning of beauty important? What things in life truly make people happy? What does it mean to be human?”
Experience the dynamic interplay between foundations and our majors and minors
Raymond Albert, Ph.D.
Director of Cybersecurity
“The Foundations program is integral to the Cybersecurity program in the formation of thoughtful citizens with strong moral character and integrity that are the foundation of trust that is essential to most cybersecurity efforts. The program strengthens student skills in problem solving, communications, management, and data analysis among others that are increasingly demanded of graduates entering the cybersecurity workforce.”
Steven Theroux, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
“Assumption’s Foundations Program helps science students better understand the world and their place in it. The Program also helps students develop non-science based problem solving skils, and it aids in their ability to think holistically and creatively.”
Maria Parmley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
“The Foundations Program allows students to synthesize ideas from many perspectives (historical, scientific, philosophical, etc.) to critically analyze information that they encounter. For example, how can the scientific method help us investigate human behavior? How might historical and cultural aspects impact the type of questions researchers/psychologists might investigate? Students’ experiences through the Foundation Program helps them to see the interplay of various disciplines and apply that knowledge in their fields of interest.”
Rachel Coleman, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Theology
“Not only does Assumption’s Foundations program provide the basis for a well-lived and thoughtful life in one’s college years and beyond, it is also an excellent beginning for the study of theology, whether it be one’s major or minor. Because theology studies all of reality through the lens of revelation, the courses that make up the Foundations program can do nothing other than expand and enrich one’s study of theology.”
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Forum courses build on Cornerstone and Pillar courses by giving you the opportunity to pursue your studies beyond the introductory level in a discipline that you find especially fascinating. In your Forum course, you will examine an enduring question and/or formative debate that has shaped a particular discipline in order to develop a deeper appreciation of this discipline’s nature and its significance within the modern world.
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The Social and Historical Pillar will help you to situate human behavior within its historical and social contexts, empowering you to further understand the value and diversity of human experience.
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The Quantitative and Scientific Pillar will provide you with a mathematical foundation and an understanding of scientific inquiry, enabling you to appreciate the value of mathematics and the natural sciences as human activities.
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The Language, Culture and Expression Pillar will lead you in an exploration of patterns of meaning in languages, cultures, and the arts, helping you cultivate mutual understanding and a sense of the diversity and beauty of human expression.
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In Cornerstone courses, you will engage in thoughtful reflection about weighty human concerns by examining literary, philosophical, and theological investigations of the human condition. Cornerstone courses place special emphasis on helping you develop the arts of reading, writing, thinking, and conversing.