Culture and Common Good

Mission Core: 3 credits

The goal of Mission Core: Culture & the Common Good is to prioritize attention to issues of historical remembrance, social justice, and diversity, to build alliances with individuals and organizations that are bringing about positive changes in the global community, and to integrate the liberal arts with professional education. Completion of this requirement partially fulfills the state Valuing requirement. Upon completion of this requirement, students will be able to:

1. Identify links between Fontbonne’s mission, as supported by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, and the principle of the common good, a principle of Catholic Social Teaching.
2. Articulate the challenges of reconciling divergent ideas about the common good within a pluralistic society.
3. Determine one’s personal ideas about the common good by examining the idea in multiple contexts.
4. Prioritize one’s personal and professional goals in light of one’s potential contributions to the common good.
5. Demonstrate effective use of campus resources to foster personal and professional development.

• INT 105 - Mission Core I: Culture and the Common Good Credit(s): 3

Diversity & Justice: 3 credits

As an institution, we value diversity and justice. Courses that meet this requirement develop students’ abilities to articulate a personally authentic ethical framework that honors these values, and to act upon these values in particular contexts.

At the conclusion of courses that meet the diversity and justice requirement, students should be able to:

1. Discuss how concepts related to diversity and justice continue to be defined, disputed, employed, and/or expanded within a given sphere of study or practice
2. Identify ways that the tools of this area of study or practice have been or could be employed to foster diversity and justice in personal, professional, cultural, or societal contexts.

• CDS 101 - Survey of Communication Disorders Credit(s): 3
• CIS 130 - Ethical Foundations of Computer/Data Science Credit(s): 3
• COM 110 - Dialogue Among Differences: Race Credit(s): 3
• COM 230 - Gender Communication Credit(s): 3
• DEA 100 - Psychology of Deafness Credit(s): 2
• EDU 241 - Critical Literacy for the 21st Century Learner Credit(s): 3
• EDU 270 - Introduction to Learner Diversity Credit(s): 3
• ENG 220 - Women’s Literature Credit(s): 3
• ENG 255 - African-American Literature Credit(s): 3
• FAS 105 - Dress and Culture Credit(s): 3
• FAS 210 - Fashion Industry and Sustainable Development Credit(s): 3
• FAS 410 - The Fashion Industry and Sustainable Development Credit(s): 3
• FDS 226 - Topics in Food and Culture: An Experimental Experience Credit(s): 3
• GS 201 - Globalization and Its Challenges Credit(s): 3
• HST 107 - Introduction to African-American Studies Credit(s): 3
• HST 440 - History of Women and Families in the United States Society Credit(s): 3
• ONE 196 - Introduction to One Health Credit(s): 3
• PER 260 - Telling Stories of Diversity and Justice Credit(s): 3
• SPT 100 - History of Sports in America Credit(s): 3
• SWK 200 - Social and Economic Justice Credit(s): 3

Foundations: 17 credits

These courses form the foundation of a solid liberal arts education.

Pillars of Knowledge: 18 credits

Pillars courses build on Fontbonne’s Foundations courses. Students select one course from six of the seven categories listed (minimum 3 credit hours each), to include at least one laboratory science course.