Ethics Core Objectives:
To provide students with a knowledge of moral principles.
To provide students with an awareness of the moral dimensions in decision making.
To provide students with criteria for making ethical decisions.
To aid students in developing those habits necessary to respond in a moral manner to one's Existential situation.

Fine Arts Core Objectives:
To provide an involvement with one of the fine arts to further develop ones sensual perception, imagination, and emotional capacity.
To develop an understanding of the language (idiom), form, and creative achievement of at least one of the fine arts, in order to refine the critical sense of the student in aesthetic matters.
To encourage transfer of understanding of the creative process in a specific art to a critical appreciation of the arts in general.

Mathematics Core Objectives:
To introduce students to the language of mathematics and to show the variety of ways in which that language is used to express information.
To teach students techniques of problems solving and to illustrate the use of those techniques in the solution of relevant problems.
To familiarize students with the deductive nature of mathematics and the abstract- symbolic type of thinking that it utilizes.
To demonstrate to the student the importance of mathematics in the world today.

Natural Science Curriculum:
To characterize the scientific method by demonstrating:
The dependence of science on empiricism
The manner in which scientific theories and models are developed
The dynamic nature of scientific theories
To instill a body of scientific information drawn from the Natural Sciences by:
Demonstrating the interrelatedness of different areas of science
Providing students with literacy to at least a non-technical level

Philosophy Core Objectives:
To help students to think logically and to evaluate critically.
To impart a philosophical knowledge of the person and human nature in keeping with the Judaeo-Christian mission of the College.
To impart a knowledge of the persons heritage by tracing the origin and evolution of philosophical problems and issues specifically.  

Social Science Core Objectives:
To teach students that they can approach social/human phenomena at an empiricalrather than an intuitive or speculative level.
To teach students how to use careful systematic analysis, consistent with ascientific method, in explaining human behavior.
To sensitize students to the role played by facts and values in understanding humanbehavior.

Theology Core Objectives:

Level I Objectives
To teach the basics of Catholic theology:

1. divine revelation
2. doctrine of God (including Christology and Trinity)
3. sin
4. grace
5. Church
6. sacraments
7. the moral and spiritual life
   
   

Level II Objectives
To give the student the opportunity to build upon the foundation of the Level I course and to explore in greater depth and at a higher level one or more of the basic themes of Catholic theology in one of the following areas:

1. Sacred Scripture
2. Historical Theology
3. Dogmatic Theology
4. Moral Theology
5. Spiritual Theology