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BLU 101 Foundations Seminar | The Foundations Seminar is the first step in the Hilbert Blueprint, our distinctive approach to providing transformative learning experiences within a liberal arts and Franciscan context. The Blueprint gives students opportunities to develop a curiosity for learning—about oneself, others, and the world—and to become engaged members of their communities. In the Foundations Seminar, we will focus on how to become an effective college learner. Our goal is to introduce you to ideas and practices that 1) lead to academic success; 2) promote personal well-being; 3) offer opportunities to make meaningful community connections; and 4) encourage thoughtful engagement with our educational mission. Developing knowledge and skills in these areas will help you integrate your learning—both in and outside the classroom—for future academic, personal, and professional success.
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BLU 151 Public Speaking | Public Speaking is the second step in the Hilbert Blueprint, our distinctive approach to providing transformative learning experiences within a liberal arts and Franciscan context. The Blueprint gives students opportunities to develop a curiosity for learning—about oneself, others, and the world—and to become engaged members of their communities.
This course is designed to help students develop skills for effective oral communication. Individuals will learn how to construct and deliver a variety of speeches while gaining an understanding of speaking strategies. Students will emerge from the course more confident on the public platform. When refined by practice and experience, the critical thinking, composition, and performance skills learned in the course should prove quite useful in a student’s personal and professional endeavors.
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BLU 201 Service Learning & Civic Engagement | Service Learning and Civic Engagement is the second-year experience in the Hilbert Blueprint, our distinctive approach to providing transformative learning experiences within a liberal arts and Franciscan context. The Blueprint gives students opportunities to develop a curiosity for learning—about oneself, others, and the world—and to become engaged members of their communities. This course provides students with an opportunity to explore one or more social concerns within the local community. Catholic social teaching principles and Hilbert’s Catholic, Franciscan heritage provide a framework for students to understand their own personal experiences and to develop a critical perspective on civics and justice. Knowledge gained through in-class activities, readings, and lectures is applied through participation in a service-learning experience with a community partner. This service learning experience will help address the immediate needs of the community and develop a student’s sense of civic responsibility. Students will demonstrate their learning achieved through structured reflection activities.
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BLU 301 Junior Symposium | The Junior Symposium is the junior-year experience in the Hilbert Blueprint, our distinctive approach to providing transformative learning experiences within a liberal arts and Franciscan context. The Blueprint gives students opportunities to develop a curiosity for learning—about oneself, others, and the world—and to become engaged members of their communities. The central goal of BLU 301 is to promote critical analysis through an in-depth examination of local, national, and international events. In addition to issues addressed in the media, the media itself will be examined, as changes in technology and the blurring of lines between hard news and opinion complicate what we see and hear in the media. In this unique team-taught course, students will come to recognize that each professor’s understanding and evaluation of a current event has been shaped by the professor’s own education. Moreover, when students enter the discussion, they will also be utilizing their own educational training in critical thinking and analysis, which has fostered their own unique set of perceptions. The Junior Symposium is an opportunity for students to make connections between current events and their own educational and personal experiences and consider how those experiences have shaped who they are. Consequently, students who complete the Symposium will be more reflective and better-informed citizens, ready to positively impact the world around them.
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