Academics & Research

The Daemen College core curriculum is an innovative competency-based curriculum. In today’s rapidly changing world, the competencies developed in the core curriculum will have lasting value and will provide a strong basis for lifelong learning.

Critical thinking employs intellectual skills such as observation, classification, analysis and synthesis in a reasonable and reflective manner to arrive at meaningful decisions.

Clifford C. Pyne ’93

Bachelor of Science in Nursing

I learned so much about medical research and the nursing process at Daemen, and the level of professionalism among the faculty and staff had a great impact on my life.

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This competency is defined as the capacity to effectively utilize technologies, including computers, software, the Internet, and databases for research, communication, and presentation.

Sue Falsone ’96

Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy

Anything worth anything requires hard work, a little sacrifice, and time management. Including finding time for yourself. That’s what I learned at Daemen, on top of the PT education.

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Effective communication includes grammatical and technical competency as well as the ability to communicate across cultural boundaries with an awareness of the rhetorical effects of language in a variety of situational contexts (including non-verbal).

Susan A. Conners ’69

Bachelor of Arts

“I learned about Rosary Hill from my guidance counselor. I wanted a small school and when Rosary Hill gave me a full scholarship I jumped at the chance. It was the only way I could go to college.”

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Affective Awareness emanates from the relationship between sensory experience and emotional response. A sensory experience can move people to great emotional depths and can provoke powerful sensations. An affective process reveals biases, identifies patterns, creates meaning in response to this perception. By assessing affective awareness, one gains aesthetic sensibility to respond knowingly and probingly to the myriad appeals to affective consciousness that characterize contemporary culture.

James Kuo 37 year Professor of Art

James Allen, professor of art at Daemen, observed in his notes for a 1997-98 retrospective exhibition that Kuo’s work rewarded “all but the most insensitive or jaded viewer with lingering sensations bordering on awe and spiritual renewal, not unlike feelings provoked in the presence of nature’s most impressive places.”

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Moral and ethical discernment is defined as a non-judgmental understanding of how moral and ethical standards are formed, how they influence aspects of our lives, and how they shape public discourse and policy.

Penny Schnitter Frese ’68

Bachelor of Arts in English

The how’s and why’s of Penny’s return to Buffalo and campus are integral parts of her life and career as wife, mother, helpmate in her husband’s career as a nationally renowned mental health expert, teacher, and advocate for the early diagnosis and treatment of juvenile mental illness.

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Contextual competency is the ability to understand past and present issues affecting individuals, organizations, local societies, and global communities. Acquiring contextual competency allows individuals to appreciate the role played by organizational and contextual aspects when making decisions and evaluating results.

Thelma Farley ’61

Bachelor of Arts in Music Education

If you think about it, none of us learns from a cookie-cutter approach, one-size fits all or all on the same day at the same time, Thelma advises. Children and teens learn through very specific ways, depending primarily on their age and stage of development.

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Civic responsibility is grounded in an appreciation that the health of local, national, and global communities is dependent on the direct and active participation of all members in the well being of the community as a whole.

Jeffrey R. Rabey ‘92

Bachelor of Science in Education

“We talk a global economy but we all suffer if we don’t change how we educate students…We have to connect kids to the educational system; that’s why we’re building a career academy, to make it relevant.”

 

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