Salve Regina University - Regina Maris Yearbook (Newport, RI)

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION The Physical Education Department chaired by Paul Cardoza, M.S. does not offer a major or minor field of concentration but it does allow students of other fields of concentration to take up an interest in some physical activity. The department offers each student an opportunity for personal development through sports and varied types of formal exercise. It also enables each participant a means of acquiring basic skills and knowledge of various sports and re- lated physical activities. Physical Education courses provide a relaxing, yet invigorating break from the pressures of studying. 29

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PHILOSOPHY The Philosophy Department is chaired by LubomirGleimanPh.D., L.H.D. The depart- ment strives to elicit in the student enlarged and intensified capacities for critical insight, understanding, judgement and responsible informed decision, to grasp the analogies, distinctions and symbolic forms for personal and communal orientation and anticipation in the contemporary world, everchanging with new wants, yet with constant basic hu- man needs for self-fulfillment. MUSIC The Music Department chaired by Thomas Day Ph.D., contributes to the general mis- sion of the College by bringing students in contact with their rich cultural heritage of music — a heritage that the educated person is expected to encounter. 28

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RELIGIOUS STUDIES Considering religious studies an academic dis- cipline, John Greeley S.T.D. the department head, seeks to help students bring their critical intelligence to bear on the phenomenon of reli- gion and particularly on its Christian and Catho- lic manifestations. To understand from within a religious tradition, to clarify one ' s attitudes, to take a stance, to decide what one ' s relation to religion is and will be is the work of critical intelli- gence. To initiate such critical and intelligent re- flection is the aim of the religious studies program. NURSING The Department of Nursing chaired by Catherine E. Graziano, M.S. provides the opportunity for stu- dents to develop in their personal and enlightened career choice and to demonstrate competence and confidence in nursing, while at the same time exhi- biting acceptance of their changing roles in society. This acceptance should lead to th e realization of the frequency with which their roles will change in the future, and the need for concrete plans of continuing educational preparation. The graduates of the program are expected to iden- tify a personal value system that reflects exposure to Christian principles as well as diverse points of view, developed in a Catholic college which attempts to project a realization of the role of the Church in the world today. 30