The mission of the Fisk University Core is to provide a liberal arts education of
the highest quality by furnishing a multicultural and interdisciplinary learning
experience.
The Fisk Core goals are:
- to foster and enhance skills, knowledge, awareness, and dispositions that lead
to the development of competent, resourceful, and imaginative leaders
- to encourage understanding of the social world and natural environment
and their relationships to communities
- to encourage exposure to various creative experiences
Objectives:
- to provide experiences that allow students to read in a way that leads to
critical thinking
- to provide experiences that allow students to communicate effectively, both
in writing and orally, reflecting in both instances, a command of the
language, logical thinking and comparative analysis, and a facility to locate,
identify, and use sources
to provide experiences that encourage investigation, exploration, and
application of knowledge to the social world and natural environment
- to provide experiences that encourage the development of personal values
and ethical decision making
- to provide experiences that encourage students to synthesize and think
beyond disciplinary boundaries
- to provide experiences that encourage and promote creativity