What makes a Core course different?
You may be wondering what is so special about these core courses. The University Core is designed around the learning outcomes that characterize each Knowledge Area. The learning outcomes in the Core are separated into the 10 different areas, but together they form what a graduate of Loyola University Chicago should know, appreciate, and be able to do regardless of his or her college or undergraduate major. For a course to be approved for a specific knowledge area it must meet a minimum of 3 criteria: First, the course has to be designed to address the learning outcomes for the knowledge area. This means that course design, teaching strategy, and the design of class assignments are as important to a course being approved as course content. Each core course must be planned out so students will gain a mastery of the Knowledge Area Learning Outcome. Second, core courses must reinforce one or more of the Core Skills. Each Core course is expected to reinforce learning on effective skills, i
