Centers Overview
At Principia, we recognize every student is infinitely capable and divinely whole.
Find Your Center
A center isn't just a place, dedicated to a certain pursuit.
Your center is also an emotional and spiritual equilibrium: a gravitational mean that keeps you grounded, steady, and true to yourself. At Principia College, your center is the core from which your infinite capability radiates.
Our whole-person approach to education includes a new model for the Liberal Arts. Our fields of study are housed in five Academic Centers that become the hub of your academic and social life. Here you’ll learn to think critically, creatively, and collaboratively, preparing you to be a leader in your chosen field and an agent of positive change in the world.
Center for Narrative, Meaning & Media: Explore the cross-cultural power of narrative, storytelling, and meaning in the human experience by connecting the wisdom of history, religious studies, and creative expression.
Center for Business & Computer Science: Examine the rapidly evolving intersection of business, artificial intelligence, data science, and math. Hone your quantitative skills, develop your talent for innovation, and cultivate an agile, entrepreneurial mindset.
Center for Civic & Global Engagement: Sharpen your cross-disciplinary learning, thinking, and communication skills as you prepare to make a meaningful, lifelong impact on your community, your nation, and the world.
Center for Sustainability, Ecology & Chemistry: Immerse yourself in hands-on learning experiences like our award-winning Solar Car program, campus solar array, apiculture, aquaponics, permaculture, land stewardship, and community development.
Center for the Arts: Create things that have never existed; find new ways to express the complexity of the human experience; revel in the beauty and poignancy of movement, language, music, and the visual world.
Academic Vision Statement
Principia College’s academic unit strives to create a collaborative and inclusive academic community where everyone feels a sense of belonging and sees each other as infinitely capable and divinely whole. Our rigorous, globally focused curriculum and character-based approach honors diverse perspectives and develops creative problem solvers who use their academic skills to benefit their communities and the world.