Critical Thinking & Creativity

This course introduces students to creative, human-centered problem solving used across design, business, technology, and social innovation. Students learn to observe real needs, frame meaningful problems, ideate boldly, prototype rapidly, and test solutions with real users. Through hands-on weekly exercises and a cumulative challenge project, students practice creative confidence, visual thinking, and collaborative problem solving. Students will gain transferrable tools for innovation, critical thinking, and everyday problem solving.

This course explores the relationship between ethical reasoning, service, and civic responsibility through a biblical framework. Students examine foundational ethical theories, analyze contemporary social issues, and evaluate the role of individuals and organizations in promoting the common good. Emphasis is placed on applying ethical decision-making to real-world contexts, including community engagement, nonprofit service, and public life, with the goal of developing thoughtful, responsible contributors to society.

This course will survey modern worldviews through the lenses of history, philosophy, religion, and popular culture over the centuries and evaluate their impact on the modern Christian worldview using the primary lens of Scripture for critical evaluation. Students will examine the nature and function of belief structures, then build a personal worldview from a biblical foundation.

An introduction to major contemporary worldviews shaping society today, with attention to their philosophical foundations, cultural expressions, and ethical implications. Students examine how worldviews influence public life and personal decision-making through a biblical lens.

This course is designed as an introduction to ethical thought and its application to contemporary decision-making. Examination of issues such as those involved in reproduction, abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, genetic engineering, biomedical research, divorce, homosexuality, LGBT, capital punishment, civil disobedience, war, social justice, and the environment may be explored. The desired outcome is for students to demonstrate critical thinking about such issues and to develop skills to articulate positions about moral and social problems from their own personal worldviews.