Aquinas Academic Programs :
Adult Studies
Important Announcement: Effective August 2010, Aquinas College consolidated the East Campus and the Main Campus. Since the East Campus is now closed, all Adult Studies classes will now meet at the Main Campus at 4210 Harding Pike, Nashville, TN 37205.
Aquinas College is no longer accepting applications for admission into the Adult Studies accelerated business programs.
Important Announcement Issued May 13, 2009 »
Adult Studies Overview
The Adult Studies Program is designed for the working adult, providing a rigorous, sequenced curriculum that fosters a lifelong love of study; self-responsibility for one's own education; shared experiences; and a deep sense of commitment to the betterment of society, beginning with the betterment of the learner's understanding of the world. Within the business programs, both theoretical knowledge and practical skills are used to provide the learner with the tools, technological and pedagogical, that are essential in the modern world of commerce and trade.
The Program is characterized by accelerated courses that meet once a week for 5-8 weeks. Cohorts of 15 or fewer students undertake their studies together for the duration of their degree or certificate program. This small class format ensures both enduring peer support and superior faculty attention to student learning.
Mission
The Aquinas Adult Studies program further extends the Aquinas College mission to adult students. Adult Studies seeks to provide an atmosphere of learning, which empowers and motivates students to use human institutions to promote the spiritual, moral, intellectual, and professional growth of all members of society. Adult Studies will foster a Catholic world vision in its approach to each life, each culture, country, and civilization.
Program Goals
The Aquinas ADULT STUDIES PROGRAM strives to:
- Carry out and foster the traditional role of the Catholic University as provided in Ex Corde Ecclesiae.
- Provide the graduate with an understanding of the principles and practices of a market-based free enterprise economy within the context of Christian business ethics.
- Develop and strengthen the business judgment of graduates through critical thinking and writing, problem solving and decision-making processes within organizational settings.
- Provide mechanisms that enable students to assume more responsibility for their education.
- Foster systems and process thinking when dealing with business and organizational problems and operational situations.
- Help students understands and integrate the business functions (accounting, finance, marketing, operations, distribution, management, and information systems) as practiced by modern organizations.
- Instill in graduates a lifelong love for learning, both in the business arena and in their respective personal lives.