DEGREE PROGRAMS GENERAL EDUCATION
DEGREE PROGRAMS/GENERAL EDUCATION CORE Academic Programs
San Diego Christian College offers both Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees. The Bachelor of Arts programs focus primarily on academic fields of study in the humanities and/or social sciences. The Bachelor of Sci-ence programs have a focal point in the sciSci-ences and/or incorporate professional training with the academic portion of the degree. Central to all degree programs are eight courses that address College distinctives related to the institutional mission statement. These courses have been incorporated into the general edu-cation core and serve to build an intellectual foundation that infuses knowledge within the understanding and values of our Judeo-Christian heritage. They are designed to foster the capacity for a life of free inquiry and critical thinking based on biblical truth. The courses are scheduled one per semester to provide a continual interface with other course work in the degree programs. Students who transfer to SDCC will work with their advisors to determine the most ap-propriate courses to select in the sequence.
Throughout the academic experience, students will be challenged to develop self-discipline, discernment and maturity. Plato said that education is the “right-ly disciplined state of pleasures and pains whereby a man from his first begin-nings on will abhor what he should abhor and relish what he should relish.” It is education, therefore, that matures a person. In a Christian liberal arts setting, education is embedded in a pursuit of God’s truth, which by nature carries a set of moral prerequisites. Unlike the secular moralists, our aim is to produce biblically-minded leaders for this generation. Our faculty members dedicate themselves to this as a part of God’s command to us to make disciples of all people. Each student will encounter a variety of ways to think critically about themselves and the world around them where God has called them to serve.
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Biblical Studies
Concentration Options: Exposition, Missions, Pastoral Ministry, or Youth Ministry
Concentration Options: Professional Music Studies, Worship Leading , Musical Theater
Concentration Options: General Kinesiology, Sports Medicine, or Physical Education/Coaching
Liberal Studies Mathematics
Credential Programs
1 year Single Subject Teaching Credential 1 year Multiple Subject Teaching Credential Interdisciplinary Studies Option
The degree program in Interdisciplinary Studies allows the student to tailor an academic program that is more eclectic and focused toward the student’s career-specific interests. Students are required to select a primary area and a secondary area as the building blocks for their program. They will take at least 2 credit hours in the primary area, 12 credit hours of which must be upper division.
Eighteen credit hours are to be taken in a secondary area, 9 credit hours of which must be upper division. Students select the courses to be included in their program from the course offerings available at SDCC. They are selected to meet the objectives for the student’s program as identified by the student and approved by an academic advisor and by the Registrar.
Master Schedules for Degree Programs
A Master Schedule has been designed for each degree program and is issued to you when you first enroll. The Master Schedule will serve to guide you through the sequence of required courses for your major. While changes may at times occur, you should use the Master Schedule as a tool to help you chart your progress toward completion of the courses you need to complete your degree. Major field courses include those that give you an overview or general introduction to your field of study plus others that help you develop special understandings or competencies. Each degree program tries to allow for options, to enable you to tailor a program to meet individual interests and career goals.
Developmental Courses
Developmental courses are designed to help you improve your academic skills in order to succeed in college-level work. For example, you may be an older student returning to school after an absence of several years, or a student who did not perform well in high school but has developed a renewed interest in learning, and may need to brush up on forgotten or rusty information.
Four first-year courses are currently available which review fundamental English, math, and study skills. If you are admitted on probation, you will be required to take Personal Development 100 during your first semester. If you do not qualify to take English 101 based on the placement test, you will be required to take English 090. If you do not qualify to take Math 115 based on the placement test, you will be required to take Math 090 and/or Math 095.
These courses are best scheduled early in your academic program as the skills they help you develop are essential for success in other course work.
The newest addition to the developmental course offerings is a course for those students who, after the required writing proficiency exam, indicate the need for further assistance in developing their writing skills. The Writing Workshop is interdisciplinary in approach and helps students apply excellent writing skills to assignments in other courses they are taking.
General Education Core
A general education program is designed to provide a framework for continued learning orienting students toward a clear understanding of humankind as created in the image of God. It serves to clarify human relationships and responsibilities to the social and physical environments, and to God through Jesus Christ.
The general education curriculum at SDCC is made up of an interdisciplinary core of courses that spans the major fields of academic inquiry and performance.
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Courses are selected from the natural and social sciences, the humanities, and biblical studies. The combination of courses is structured to expose students to a diversity of ideas and issues and to broaden their literary, cultural and aesthetic sensibilities. Central to such an effort is an emphasis on strengthening language and communication skills, mathematical capabilities, and basic research skills.
It is expected that the general education course work will also produce students who can think logically and critically, articulating their values based upon biblical absolutes. Through the general education program, the College provides students with a solid foundation of knowledge and skills to prepare them for the many roles they will undertake beyond graduation. This foundation fosters lifelong learning and equips students to adapt to a changing world.
General Education Objectives
At the completion of the general education core curriculum, the students will be able to:
Communicate effectively through oral and written modes.
Demonstrate appropriate processes of collecting and evaluating academic sources.
Articulate a worldview based on biblical principles.
Explain fundamental concepts and principles of mathematics and the natural sciences.
Distinguish among genres and styles in the humanities.
Articulate basic biblical chronology and theological concepts using a consistent historical, grammatical, and literal hermeneutic.
Natural Science Course ** 3
(Biology/Chemistry/Physical Science)
Mathematics Course*** (Math 115 or higher) 3 Computer Info Sys Course (CIS 141 or higher) 3 SCI 302 Scientific Models of Origins 3 1.2.
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PSY 201 Introduction to Psychology 3
PSY 202 Developmental Psychology 3
PD 202 Marriage and Family 3