An Education without Limitation

Infused in the liberal arts, Mother McAuley’s academic curriculum centralizes on six key interdisciplinary skills found throughout all disciplines — from Science and Math to English and World Languages to Music and the Visual Arts.

Girls inherently learn differently than boys so the Mother McAuley academic program tailors instruction to girls’ learning styles, including experiential learning opportunities, peer collaboration, personalized instructor feedback, and authentic assessments.

What does Liberal Arts mean?

"A liberal arts education offers an expansive intellectual grounding in all kinds of humanistic inquiry.

By exploring issues, ideas and methods across the humanities and the arts, and the natural and social sciences, you will learn to read critically, write cogently and think broadly. These skills will elevate your conversations in the classroom and strengthen your social and cultural analysis; they will cultivate the tools necessary to allow you to navigate the world’s most complex issues.

A liberal arts education challenges you to consider not only how to solve problems, but also trains you to ask which problems to solve and why, preparing you for positions of leadership and a life of service to the nation and all of humanity."

Taken from Princeton University

Other institutions founded in the liberal arts include the University of Notre Dame, Harvard College, University of Chicago, St. Louis University, and many more!

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

Mother McAuley continually adds courses to their offerings based off the needs of our changing world, in order to make our young women future ready. 

Broadcast Journalism

This is a full year course intended for students interested in broadcast journalism and production. Students will learn all aspects of a news production and that it is a team effort - all positions are equally dependent on each other for  the success of the production. This course will include how to report, write, and edit for broadcast news, speech and communication skills for reporting and interviewing, and media literacy and ethical standards of journalism. At the  production level, this course will include how to use the technical equipment involved as well as learning how to  produce and direct. Students will showcase their work on camera and behind the scenes. Student work will be  broadcast to the McAuley community.

Personal Finance (Financial Literacy)

This course provides students with the foundations and financial skills in money management. Students will explore real life financial scenarios such as buying a car, filling out the FAFSA form, understanding pay stubs, filing taxes, credit scores, types of insurance, consumer protection, budgeting, interest rates and investing. This is a graduation requirement for all students. 

 

AP Computer Science Principles (Amazon Future Engineer Course)

This year-long course is designed to be the equivalent to the first semester of Introductory Computer Science in college and follows the College Board AP curriculum. The focus of the course is using technology and programming as a means to solve problems. Student discovery and creativity are central to the course. Independent and collaborative work is stressed as students work to create digital artifacts similar to the process invoked by artists, writers, computer scientists and engineers. Several computer languages will be used during the course including Python, HTML and Scratch.