Common Curriculum

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The Common Curriculum is at the heart of the liberal arts portion of an education at 葫芦娃视频, and it includes eight required courses spread over four years. Those classes begin with the University Seminar and include University Core courses and University Foundations courses. The eighth course is the required capstone in every student鈥檚 major.

As an SPU student, you begin the Common Curriculum in the first quarter of your freshman year by taking University Seminar, an intensive exploration of a special interdisciplinary topic.
Your University Seminar professor serves as your academic advisor during your freshman year.

In your freshman, sophomore, and junior years at Seattle Pacific, you will participate in two parallel sequences of required courses. As you move through the three University Core courses, these courses address key questions that pervade human life: Who am I?, From where have I come?, and How do I know the truth and act on that knowledge?

As the courses confront these perennial human questions through the study of human culture, history, and thought, you are challenged to understand yourself, your heritage and traditions, and the world from the perspective of the Christian faith.

The three University Foundations courses are centered in the foundations of faith:

Christian Formation, exploring the lived experience of faith.
Christian Scripture, providing a way of conceptualizing, reading, and practicing the truth of Scripture as the authority for Christian formation.
Christian Theology, reflecting upon the relationship between God and humankind as expressed in the Scriptures and experienced in a life of faith.

Each course in the University Core and University Foundations sequences includes common texts and objectives in order to ensure common learning.

Note: If you are admitted to one of the special programs or if you are part of University Scholars, you follow a different curriculum specific to their programs.