The most important thing to consider in choosing a college or university is the institution's expectation of its faculty. Good teachers are actively involved in both teaching and scholarly activity, such as research, but institutions and their faculties tend to give priority to one or to the other. In a recently completed study, the prestigious Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching concluded that often, at the research institutions, undergraduates are seriously neglected, in part because they are often taught by graduate students. By contrast, at High Point, you will be taught by career teachers who care about students. Currently, 80% of the faculty have doctorates or other terminal degrees; others have one or more master's degrees.
Although High Point University is an academic institution, your education is not complete if, in the process of learning, you have not inculcated moral values without which success in life and work is at risk. Therefore, the University emphasizes the teaching of ethics across the curriculum, and all degree candidates must successfully complete at least one course in ethics. Options include Business Ethics; Christian Ethics; Ethics in Professionalism for Accounting; Ethical Conflicts in Information Technology; Environmental Ethics; Ethical Traditions; Faith, Ethics, and Wholeness; Families, Values, and Ethics; and Social Ethics.
Introducing First Year Seminar
The goal of first year seminars is to introduce first year students at High Point University to college-level inquiry, and to facilitate their intellectual transition from high school learners to university scholars. First year seminars reflect a special research/creative interest or expertise of the faculty teaching them, and, where possible, require you to read primary texts—not course textbooks—and to engage in experiential learning. We encourage you to use your First Year Seminar to broaden your horizons: choose a course with a topic that interests you, but which you perhaps haven’t explored in the past and which isn’t in the same subject or field as your intended major. The First Year Seminar program’s aim is to provide new college students with examples and enticements of the benefits of searching curiosity, sophisticated intellectual inquiry, and life-long learning.
For more information about these seminars, please click here.
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