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From First-Year Seminar to Senior Seminar, our Gen Ed program leads you into a comprehensive understanding of how academic disciplines engage central human questions and problems. You’ll gain a wide range of skills and capacities for leadership, service and lifelong learning.

Components of General Education

All incoming first-year students are required to take a 2-credit FYS in their first semester at Hope as introduction to college-level learning through collaborative exploration of an intellectually engaging topic. Your FYS instructor also serves as your academic advisor until you choose a major.

Expository Writing develops your ability to read and think critically, then express your thoughts clearly and concisely in writing. Hope students fulfill the required 4 credits through English 113, Expository Writing I. We offer multiple sections each semester and occasionally during summer terms.

Physical health and fitness have been part of liberal education dating back to ancient Greece. The purpose of Health Dynamics (always offered as Kin 140) is to help you understand the principles of proper diet and exercise and to establish habits and skills that will enable you to reach and maintain good health and fitness for life.

The arts offer unique ways of knowing, bringing you face to face with yourself and with what lies beyond you. Four-credit arts courses involve experiencing and exploring the arts; 1-credit and 2-credit arts courses involve you directly and creatively in the experience of an art form.

The arts in the general education program has two required components:

• Fine Arts I courses focus on the nature, importance and history of the arts. One 4-credit FA1 course fulfills this component.
• Fine Arts II courses deepen understanding of the arts through doing. Two credits (one 2-credit FA2 course or two 1-credit FA2 courses) are required for this component. If you take two 1-credit courses, you do not need to take them in the same semester.

More information on courses fulfilling this requirement in Art and Art History, Dance, Music and Theatre.

More information about auditioning for private music lessons and ensembles, which are open to all students.

Cultural Heritage courses open up a dialogue with history and with classic literary and philosophical works. You will develop your ability to read and write critically, imaginatively and reflectively as you learn from the past to better understand yourself, others and the world. You will consider perennial questions of human life as you see how others have thought about them during various eras of cultural and intellectual history.

Cultural Heritage I courses study the ancient and medieval periods, up to 1500 CE, and Cultural Heritage II courses study the modern period, after 1500 CE. The required 4 credits each of CH1 and CH2 give an overview of the Western cultural legacy and its relations with the rest of the world.

Fulfilling Cultural Heritage also requires a combination of courses that include all three disciplines of literature, history and philosophy. Covering three disciplines with two courses is made possible with interdisciplinary courses, IDS 171–178.

Mathematical and scientific thinking deepen our understanding of the natural, physical , created world. Your engagement with them is central to a liberal arts education as they provide necessary tools toward responsible citizenship. The required 10 credits must include:

1. Mathematics: one MA1 or MA2 course
2. Natural Science with Lab: one NSL course
3. Remaining credits completed by any math or science course

GEMS (General Education Math and Science) courses count towards this requirement and are designed for students who have chosen majors and minors outside of math and natural science.

As one of the liberal arts, religion examines central questions of identity. Hope College religion courses also provide you with a college-level understanding of the historic Christian faith — the context for Hope’s mission of pursuing excellence through all of the liberal arts.

The religious studies requirement consists of two courses:

• One 2-credit RL1 course, always offered as Rel 100, meant to introduce the academic study of religion through a topic of contemporary relevance
• One 4-credit RL2 course, chosen from among the 200-level religion courses, which are devoted to central topics in religious studies. A 300-level religion course may be taken instead of an RL2 course with the permission of the instructor.

Rel 100 is a half-semester course offered either first-half or last-half, and each half of the semester is 7 weeks long.

This requirement is designed to help you develop greater ability to:

• Read religious texts with sympathetic imagination, understanding and discernment
• Reflect on your own religious convictions
• Interpret contemporary religious experience in light of past events, other traditions and your own experience
• Listen to and converse with those whose convictions differ from your own
• Be intellectually honest and courageous, respectful, humble and compassionate

The social sciences provide scientific approaches to understanding human behavior, social interaction, and economic and political institutions. They offer unique perspectives for exploring central questions of human identity and prepare you to engage constructively with your heritage, community, nation and world and to deal successfully with technology, social complexity and cultural diversity.

The Social Science requirement is met with two courses (a minimum of six credits), from two different social science departments (communication, economics, kinesiology, political science, psychology, sociology). One must be a four-credit class (SS1). The second course can be either an SS1 or a two-credit SS2 course. Students seeking teacher certification complete the Social Science I requirement by completing Education 220/221 and Education 500.

Four-credit, SS1 courses emphasize ways of knowing in the social sciences, teach principles of quantitative thinking, and contain a laboratory component.

Conversational ability in a second language is an increasingly valuable skill in a society that is more and more international and multicultural. Competence in a second language deepens understanding of the cultures in which that language is spoken and continues to be a mark of an educated person.

Hope requires second-semester level competency or higher, which can be fulfilled by completing an FL2 course in one of the foreign languages offered by the Department of World Languages and Cultures: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Latin, Russian or Spanish.

If you are placed into an upper-level language course and then successfully complete that course, you will be awarded additional credits for the lower-level courses you skipped, up to 16 credits. For example, if you have been placed into Fren 201 (third-semester level French) at Hope, when you successfully complete Fren 201, you will earn 4 credits for Fren 201, plus 8 additional credits for Fren 101 and Fren 102.

In a globally interconnected society, the choices we make as individuals, groups and institutions affect the quality of life of all peoples and the planet we live on, both now and for future generations. In order to develop these connections into partnerships with global representation and reach, you will need the knowledge and skills to interact with and learn from people different from yourself, both within the United States and around the world.

The global learning requirement includes:

• One Global Learning Domestic (GLD) course
• One Global Learning International (GLI) course

Many courses throughout the general education program as well as many courses within major programs are flagged for GLD or GLI.

The Senior Seminar is the capstone of the Hope College liberal arts experience. Senior Seminars raise questions of value and belief and provide opportunities to reflect on how Christianity can inform a philosophy for living. Students write a life view paper, a personal and disciplined articulation of their own views about meaning, purpose and values. Faculty members from across the college offer Senior Seminars on a wide variety of topics of interdisciplinary interest.

To find the courses that fulfill a requirement during a given term, go to the Registrar’s schedule of courses, choose that requirement from the “Attribute” section, and click the check box for “Show all subjects with selected attribute.”

Vision for General Education

General education carries on a tradition that goes back to the schools of ancient Greece and Rome and the first Christian universities. Purposeful lives in a complex world require broad knowledge and the various abilities developed in pursuing it. All knowledge is connected, and the well-educated person is able to live, lead and serve with an understanding that puts it all together, gives it meaning and draws on the sciences, the humanities and the arts. (See more on Hope’s philosophy of education.)

Hope’s General Education curriculum is designed to give students flexibility in choosing coursework that will encompass the full spectrum of learning while helping them find programs and majors or interest and study important topics and themes from multiple disciplinary perspectives. The First-Year Seminar introduces students to college-level approaches to learning through a topic of interdisciplinary interest. At the end, the Senior Seminar gives students an opportunity to reflect on basic human questions, the historic Christian faith, and all they have learned, with special attention to how it first into their sense of purpose and calling. In between, students have many choices about how to fulfill each component of General Education in ways that complement their overall course of study and engage their interests.

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Hope College’s official mission ends with this statement:

“Hope graduates are educated to think about life’s most important issues with clarity, wisdom and a deep understanding of the foundational commitments of the historic Christian faith. They are prepared to communicate effectively, bridging boundaries that divide human communities. They are agents of hope who live faithfully into their vocations. Hope graduates make a difference in the world.”

If that is the goal, how does the college propose to help you get there?

When you arrive at Hope, already well on your way, you pass through a First-Year Seminar. Your FYS may be about any topic under the sun, but they all share a common format. A seminar is an advanced form of instruction for those ready to take more initiative in their own education. The word “seminar” comes from the Latin word for seed. It is a sort of greenhouse for sprouting seeds that encourages you to express your interests and questions and to develop the skills of reflection, inquiry, and conversation needed for participating in a mature community of learning.

Through FYS, a Hope student enters the two main components of liberal arts education: general education and a major (or more than one, and maybe a minor or two). One part is about breadth and the other about depth, like a tree spreading its branches while it puts down roots.

General education takes you further into all of the basic kinds of knowledge that make up our common culture: the sciences, both natural and social; the arts; and the disciplines known as the humanities that deal with language, literature, history, philosophy and religion.

Your path through these areas of study also gives you a chance to develop fundamental ways of knowing:

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• Through both numbers and words
• Through analytically breaking things down and synthetically grasping the whole picture
• Through critical distance and interpretive empathy
• In writing and in conversation
• With both clarity and imagination
• Drawing on the past and looking to the future

Along the way, the Christian tradition is both a particular object of study and a source of courage, honesty and care for every kind of study. In the Christian liberal arts tradition, God is like the sun: sometimes a focus of thought, but always the source of illumination for seeing everything else.

Another special focus in general education, dealt with in various disciplines, is the diversity of human cultures, the different ways under the sun that people live and think, both nearby and around the world.

Taking general education courses may feel at times like wandering through a maze of paths in the woods. There’s lots of interesting stuff to look at, but it’s hard to see where it all leads. At some point you’ll locate the particular path that will take you through the forest, and all of this hiking will also give you a valuable sense of the lay of the land. (You may even find a magic door in the woods that takes you off campus for more exploring.) Through general education, you come to a better understanding of your world and of yourself — body, mind, spirit, relationships — that will help you flourish in that world and succeed on your particular path of study and work.

As you near the end of your journey through Hope, your senior seminar is like finding yourself, along with a company of other seniors, in a clearing at the top of a hill. From there you can see both the forest you’ve come through and another one that you’re about to enter, as soon as you cross the river just ahead at the foot of the hill. It’s a chance to put together what you’ve learned up to this point and articulate your view of life. Many majors have similar “capstone” courses that synthesize what you’ve learned in that discipline, but senior seminars deal with basic questions that go beyond any one discipline. They are also meant to be particularly oriented to the light from above — in particular, to thinking about Christian faith and how it might illuminate life. Regardless of what you believe, however, the senior seminar helps you identify reference points, on the horizon or in the sky, that can serve as guides. Senior Seminar also strengthens your reading, writing and conversation skills that will help keep your reference points in view.

Now you will be better prepared to find your way and plant yourself as an agent of hope living faithfully into your vocation and making a difference in the world.

Through coursework selected from the arts, the humanities (including religion and foreign languages), the social sciences and the natural sciences, students gain familiarity with foundational kinds of knowledge and essential skills and habits of learning. Across the Gen Ed program, students will acquire college-level proficiency in these skills:

• Critical thinking
• Mathematical thinking
• Reading, listening and viewing with understanding, sensitivity and critical acumen
• Use of computer technology and library research facilities
• Written and oral communication

Gen Ed courses also lay a foundation for lifelong growth in these habits:

• Analytic, synthetic and systematic thinking
• Appreciation for tradition
• Creativity
• Curiosity and openness to new ideas
• Intellectual courage and honesty
• Moral and spiritual discernment and responsibility

Courses chosen from disciplines that include all of the academic divisions of the college enable a student to develop several kinds of foundation knowledge:

• How to think from multiple perspectives about what it means to be human — what it is to be embodied creatures living in a physical world, social creatures in a world of cultural diversity, seekers of knowledge and meaning, creative makers of technology and art, human beings who experience suffering and joy, and spiritual creatures made for relationship with God.
• Preparation for a changing world through understanding cultural inheritances, global perspectives and political, social, scientific and technological developments.
• Education for responsible freedom and effective service.
• Increased capacity for delight and participation in creative activity and the created world.

See the catalog for complete information about the Gen Ed program.

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Landmark’s Freedom Baptist Curriculum includes the traditional subjects of Math, English, History, and Science, along with a separate Literature series and Bible. LFBC also includes a complete Preschool program and Electives.

Sample materials for each subject are available HERE

A general description of how the subject fit in the overall scope and sequence is available HERE

The Pre-Kindergarten (K3) contains the main academic areas of Bible, Reading Readiness, Language Concepts, Numbers, and Special Activities (including manners, music appreciation, art, health and safety, literature, exercise, and others). While not designed specifically to teach reading, important introductory concepts and skills are taught so that the students who complete this program will be thoroughly prepared to learn to read the following year.

LFBC is proud to present this first-class, academically sound, easy-to-use Kindergarten program, written and published by fundamental Baptists through the ministry of a fundamental Baptist church. Much prayer, diligent effort, experience, and sacrifice have gone into the production of this program, and it is our prayer that it will be a blessing to many, serving as a firm foundation for a lifelong pursuit of learning.

The main academic areas in the Champion Baptist Kindergarten are Phonics/Reading/Writing, Numbers, Bible, and Daily Topics (such as safety, health, science, history, and fine arts).

The program is designed as a complete phonics-based reading and writing program with a strong arithmetic emphasis. In addition, the unique Beginner’s Champion Phonics Reader teaches students how to develop speed in their phonics reading, while the McGuffey’s Eclectic Primer provides the setting for developing comprehension at this young age.

The LFBC Bible program is a high-quality, fundamental Baptist, exciting program that provides a total view of the King James Bible during the school years.

LFBC has developed a complete literature series for Christian schools and homeschoolers. Our students are exposed to the greatest literature of the past 300 years starting with the McGuffey’s Eclectic Readers in kindergarten through the sixth grade. The McGuffeys recall an America where honesty, hard work, kindness, patience, obedience to authority, fairness, gentleness, and frugality were traits to be admired. This we emphasize in our literature program. The upper grades study character-building favorites, stories, biographies and classics, including John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress and The Holy War.

LFBC English is a back-to-basics program with a heavy emphasis on learning the parts of speech, diagramming, research papers, essays, and composition. The student’s literacy skills are an absolute must in the LFBC program.

The LFBC Math program is a solid one, beginning with the knowledge that God created everything, and, because of this, order has resulted. It teaches that students can expect exactness, preciseness, and completeness in arithmetic/mathematics, just as they can expect it in God’s creation. We start with the basic facts. Strong emphasis is given to learning the multiplication tables early. Later we proceed to the more complicated and abstract concepts in the upper grades.

We are in the process of updating our high school subjects to provide even clearer instructions and better accuracy.

We offer no more 'social studies' but old-fashioned history and geography. (Social studies was a product of the secular humanists in the late 1930’s.) The root of the word history means “knowing.” It actually is a record of the affairs of mankind down through the ages of time. History provides us with examples of success and failure, of victories and defeats, and of great men with courage and character, as well as inhumane tyrants with cowardice and cruelty.

One responsibility of a good history program is to teach students to apply the lessons of history so that we are not doomed to repeat the mistakes of history.

History is a record that reveals the sovereignty of God in the affairs of man. It is a record of the human knowledge of the development in time and space of God’s divine plan for the universe. This concept recognizes that the universe was planned, created, sustained, and ordered by an infinite God. This we try to impress upon each student who studies our history courses.

This refreshing program gives a student a basic understanding of science from the Christian Biblical viewpoint as presented in the Word of God. A proper study of these concepts helps familiarize the student with the basic body of knowledge necessary to being an informed Christian in a world of technology.

ELECTIVES

This totally complete program includes step-by-step instructions for writing the entire alphabet in cursive and proceeds, through much practice, to writing on notebook-ruled paper. This program is also uniquely flexible, allowing for its use in both individualized settings as well as traditional classrooms. LFBC Penmanship is designed for use in multiple grades to establish beautiful, legible handwriting for life.

LFBC is pleased to offer this thorough, balanced, positive approach to the subject of music. Through studying music history, music theory, and the aspects of music, students learn how right music has developed and are trained to understand why modern discordant, dissonant, and rock music is not honoring to the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Home Economics course sets forth the thought that everything in the home should center on God and should be Christ-honoring. The course teaches the young lady how to become a competent homemaker, including lessons on cooking, sewing, child care, first aid, and many other practical areas of the home. This is a full credit course.

The Shop course gives a simple, elementary view of each subject covered, including electricity, plumbing, machine shop, automotive maintenance, and carpentry. Much of the basic information given will be needed for home use or as an introduction to a field of employment. Topic related Scripture memory for each lesson. This is a half credit course.

This course will benefit young ladies for the remainder of their lives. In fact, it will help make ladies out of girls if the material is studied, believed, and applied. Being a Christian affects every area of one’s life; therefore, girls should use the Bible as their guide to courting, dressing, family relationships, etc. This is a half credit course.

This course will benefit young men for the remainder of their lives. In fact, it will help make men out of boys if the material is studied, believed, and applied. Being a Christian affects every area of one’s life; therefore, young men should use the Bible as their guide to courting, dressing, family relationships, etc. This is a half credit course.

This Spanish I course is beginning Spanish. It includes vocabulary, parts of speech, and practical uses of words, phrases, and sentences. It is illustrated and provides useful examples of Sunday School lessons, songs, and the plan of salvation. The last few chapters concentrate on the student being able to lead someone to Christ.

This course is for use as a high school elective and is the equivalent of one full credit. Spanish II continues to build on the solid foundation of Spanish I and to help the student be able to present the plan of salvation to a Spanish-speaking person.

This course discusses the history of computing as well as the uses of computers. Special emphasis is placed on the personal computer. Students are given both theory and practical assignments. They are introduced to applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, databases, and communications. They are also introduced to basic concepts of programming. This is a full credit course.

This course teaches the student typing skills on the qwerty (standard) keyboard. It takes a basic approach, drilling each key for memorization, then builds up speed and accuracy. Students learn the entire keyboard, including the numeric keypad and the symbols.