At the same time, course work encourages students to assess the effectiveness of their learning styles so that they can become more skilled in choosing the learning strategies that are most appropriate for them. Learning must reflect the interdisciplinary manner in which we live and work. Students must learn how politics influences economics, which influences the arts, and vice versa. We help our students see that each age and culture has identifiable traits that emerge from the interaction of various cultural elements. Consequently, we create assignments and projects which help students make those connections.
All students are capable of creative thinking and effective problem solving.
Students learn how to define problems accurately, analyze causes and results, create solutions, implement them, and then evaluate their effectiveness. We believe that they need to understand what they learn in order to be able to use it. Our community must consider and question the social, moral, spiritual, and cultural dilemmas and issues of our times. Because life involves hard choices, students need to learn how to apply their knowledge to the challenges that the world presents. Our knowledge in science, for example, is growing at such a rapid rate that much of what we assume about the world is being questioned daily.