Curriculum and Courses

BNBU subscribes to the ideal of Whole Person Education through offering a broad range of courses focusing on transferable skills, guiding principles on attitudes and values that are crucial to students’ professional and personal developments. To achieve this goal, in addition to major areas of study, BNBU has offered various (A) University Core Courses and (B) General Education Courses which are targeted to train students with the following seven graduate attributes:

College graduate attributes (GAs)

• Citizenship: Be globally minded, ethically responsible and committed to sustainability.

• Knowledge: Be well-versed in disciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge.

• Learning: Be reflective, inquisitive independent learners and problem-solvers with technological and humanistic perspectives.

• Creativity: Be creative and entrepreneurial.

• Communication: Communicate in multiple languages and modalities effectively and empathetically.

• Teamwork: Collaborate and serve with and for diverse groups of people.

• Well-being: Be well physically, mentally and spiritually.

To earn a Bachelor’s degree at BNBU, students need to complete a total of 148-155 units of course work. Out of these units, they are required to take a total of 37 units of University Core (UC) courses and 18 units of General Education (GE) courses.