Creighton University is consistently the top-ranked Master’s University in the Midwest, a Best Buy for higher education, and one of the most technologically advanced colleges in the nation. The College of Arts & Sciences, established in 1878, serves as the university’s bedrock foundation and is a well known for innovative academic programs and an outstanding faculty.
Creighton University’s College of Arts and Sciences offers a liberal education whose primary goal is encouraging each student to become a free and responsible person. To further this goal, a liberal education delimits the natural and human boundaries within which free choice occurs, urges its students to see the need for such choice, and provides them with the means for making that choice responsibly. Creighton’s students are encouraged to be free and responsible through systematic encounter with the various traditional liberal arts and empirical sciences. The College understands this encounter—and freedom’s ultimate goal—in an explicitly Christian context, one defined by the Catholic Church, vivified by the contributions of the Jesuit community, and shared by the many other religious and lay faculty and administrators serving the University.
Creighton’s liberal education is and must be eminently practical as an education for life. A liberal education grows with its possessors and helps guide them through a lifetime of free and responsible choices. The student must be a willing, active, and earnest partner in this educational process. The reward of this partnership is a deepened appreciation for life and a strengthened ability to respond to its demands with critical intelligence. Thus, Creighton’s liberal education demands responsible involvement from its students and promises, in return, personal and academic enrichment.
As the means for achieving these goals, the Creighton College of Arts and Sciences requires each student to select a program of courses that combines three elements. The Core Curriculum assures broad exposure to academic and cultural discourse, the acquisition of communicative and reasoning skills, and the exploration of ethical values within the Christian, Catholic, and Jesuit traditions. Academic majors serve the same broad goals but in the context of bringing added depth and facility in a particular academic discipline or professional field. Academic minors and elective courses foster students’ intellectual curiosity and adaptability and encourage in them an enthusiasm for lifelong learning.
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