Courage to Know

The Courage to Know (UNCS2201) is an elective for first-year students

The Courage to Know is a first-year elective designed to confront students with the most fundamental formational questions that will guide your years at Boston College and beyond:

Who am I?
What am I good at?
Who am I called to become?

In this seminar, the instructor will lead the class through a semester-long examination of identity development, asking the question of what it means to live a life of meaning and purpose. This course will call on contemporary literature, current research, and social commentary as you discuss the impact of race, class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, intimacy, faith, and vocational discernment in our lives. CTK sections also incorporate outside-of-the-classroom activities in and around campus and the City of Boston into the course curriculum.

This three-credit seminar is offered to first-year undergraduates who may chose to take it in either the fall or spring semester. For those taking this course in the fall semester, the course instructor will serve as your academic advisor until you move into major advising sometime in your sophomore year. Instructors are faculty and administrators from across the University.