Welcome to the Cornerstone Program
The Cornerstone Seminar Program at Boston College offer first-year students unique courses for which the instructor in the course is also the academic advisor to the students in that course until they are assigned a major advising sometime in their sophomore year. Students may register for only one Cornerstone option.
Contact
Biz Bracher, Ph.D.
elizabeth.bracher@bc.edu
617-552-1749
Stokes South 141
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Celeste Ng and Biz Bracher
Bestselling and multiple award-winning American writer Celeste Ng— author of the novels Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere, and Our Missing Hearts—spoke on campus as part of Cornerstone Conversations for first-year students.
Biz Bracher on the Kelly Corrigan Podcast
FTS Learning Outcomes
As a result of taking a First-Year Topic Seminar, students will:Demonstrate responsibility for one’s own learningDevelop a positive and effective mentoring relationship with one’s pre-major, academic advisorDevelop intentional friendships/relationships with classmates Identify both academic and co-curricular opportunities through which to engage in the Jesuit identity of the University.
CTK Learning Outcomes
As a result of taking CTK, students will be able to:Use reading to explore and examine the characteristics and values of their own and other cultures; to imagine other ways of experiencing the world; to develop insights into historical as well as contemporary issuesUse writing to reflect on and clearly articulate one’s own understanding and experiences of identity developmentDemonstrate responsibility for one’s own learningDevelop a positive and effective mentoring relationship with one’s pre-major, academic advisorDevelop intentional friendships/relationships with classmates and/or mentoring relationships with senior TAs.Identify both academic and co-curricular opportunities through which to engage in the Jesuit identity of the University.--