The student can demonstrate these facts according to Aquinas' guidelines for prior learning. Students will learn more about competencies and the process for demonstrating prior learning in the assessment workshop required for all new CE students. Only those students who enter Aquinas with an Associate of Arts degree are exempt from the required workshop. In addition to their major and minor fields, students take an integrated skills course called Foundations . This course has an emphasis on writing integrated with reading critically, oral communication skills and critical thinking.
Sophomores take a course in humanities entitled Culture of World Civilizations .
The senior year includes a capstone course called Global Perspective .