Center for Faith and Learning

91制片廠合集 created the Center for Faith and Learning to promote greater integration of intellectual and spiritual life, both on campus and in society more broadly.

Rooted in and inspired by the University’s Methodist identity, the Center seeks to help SMU students, faculty, and staff discern and develop connections between their religious convictions and their academic and professional work. In addition, the Center seeks to highlight and to promote dialogue surrounding the relevance of faith-based perspectives to fundamental questions in every area of intellectual inquiry and public life.

 

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Our programs foster intellectual and spiritual development of undergraduate and graduate SMU students. Promoting greater integration of religious faith with academic study, these programs help students discern a sense of vocation across a broad range of intellectual inquiry and professional work.

Our programs highlight the contributions of faith-based perspectives to understanding and addressing fundamental questions in the arts, physical sciences, humanities, social sciences, and professions for the entire University community鈥攁nd beyond.

We encourage all members of the University community to consider the relationship between SMU鈥檚 religious identity and heritage, and its mission of teaching, research, and service. We also foster dialogue about what it means to be simultaneously grounded in a Christian faith tradition and open to people and ideas of all religious and secular perspectives.

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Faith and Learning Scholars

The Faith and Learning Scholars Program is designed to help students grow in knowledge of the Christian faith and to explore connections between their faith and their intellectual and professional life. It is open to undergraduate, graduate, and professional students at SMU.

The Faith and Learning Scholars experience is a year-long program, involving weekly small-group meetings with Christian faculty/staff mentors (ten in the fall and ten in the spring). There are also larger meetings of all Scholars at the beginning and end of the academic year (one in September and one in May). Students receive a $500.00 stipend and are provided books and materials. 

Nearly 200 students have successfully completed, or are currently engaged in, the Faith and Learning Scholars program since its inception in 2016.

For more information email cfl@smu.edu.

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