New Shores International College offers a holistic education, one that aims to cultivate a broadly informed, highly disciplined intellect without specifying in advance how that intellect will be used. Such an approach to learning regards college as a phase of exploration, a place for the exercise of curiosity and an opportunity for the discovery of new interests and abilities. The College’s main goal is to instill knowledge and skills that students can bring to bear in whatever work they eventually choose. This philosophy of education corresponds with that expressed in the B.M.V.S Resolution, which draws a distinction between “expanding [the mind’s] powers, and storing it with knowledge.” Acquiring facts is important, but learning how to think critically and creatively in a variety of ways takes precedence.
To ensure that study is neither too narrowly focused nor too diffuse, the College stands behind the principle of distribution of studies as strongly as it supports the principle of concentration. It requires that study be characterized, particularly in the earlier years, by a reasonable diversity of subject matter and approach, and in the later years by concentration in one of the major programs or departments. In addition, the College requires that all students take courses in certain foundational skills—writing, quantitative reasoning, and foreign language—that hold the key to opportunities in later study and later life. People who fail to develop these skills at an early stage unknowingly limit their futures. In each skill, students are required to travel some further distance from where they were in high school for the reason that these competences mature and deepen. The best high school writer is still not the writer he or she could be; students who do not use their mathematics or foreign language skills in college commonly lose abilities they once had, and can graduate knowing less than when they arrived.
In a time of increasing globalization, both academic study of the international world and firsthand experience of foreign cultures are crucial. No New Shores International College student can afford to remain ignorant of the forces that shape our world. New Shores International College urges all of its students to consider a summer, a term, or a year abroad sometime during their college careers.
A student working toward a bachelor’s degree takes four or five courses each term, and normally receives the Bachelor degree after completing thirty-six term courses prescribed by the University. To balance structure with latitude, and to achieve a balance of breadth and depth, a candidate for the bachelor’s degree is required, in completing the thirty-six term courses, to fulfill the distributional requirements described on this site as well as the requirements of a major program.
THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM AWARD
Recognising the impact New Shores has been making on the youth of the nation and creating the opportunities for young Entrepreneurs . The New Shores Founder Director has been awarded the prestigious ‘The Young Global Shaper’ award by the World Economic Forum for the year 2012.