Tier 1 is what gets built and staffed starting now — scoped this fall (Phase 0), piloted as embedded units inside existing courses by Phase 1 (2027), no new credit slots required. Tier 2 is real but secondary — modules, not full tracks, phased in during Phase 1–2 as bandwidth and partner interest allow, riding the same existing-course infusion pattern rather than requiring new faculty hires. Tier 3 is explicitly NOT built — it's monitored via the annual advisory review (§8) and only promoted to Tier 2 if a real partner or faculty champion appears.
Real estate — the gap and the fold-in
Starting here, because it's the one gap that's total: real estate has no presence in Jesuit's curriculum at all today — not even adjacent to Financial Accounting H or Business Ethics H, the courses already tapped for the digital-assets module below. Given the program architect's own practitioner background (a decade of real estate deal execution and asset management, an active AI-native real-asset-platform practice) and Jesuit's own development legacy and strength as a campus institution, Real Estate & the Built Environment is a natural Tier 2 addition: market analysis, development finance, and AI-enabled property/portfolio data folded into Financial Accounting H or a partnered elective — the same low-cost infusion pattern as digital assets, with direct practitioner credibility behind it from day one.
Tier 1 — build now
Applied AI / human-AI collaboration — the spine of the whole program. Tool fluency, agentic workflows, model literacy, ethics through an Ignatian lens.
Data science — the universal substrate; pairs with the existing math sequence.
Digital assets — framed carefully for the Catholic context: financial stewardship and market structure, not speculation. Blockchain mechanics, tokenization of real-world assets, stablecoins/payments, custody, regulatory landscape, careers in digital-asset finance — positioned as the modern extension of an economics/personal-finance requirement.
Quantum computing — pre-college quantum is mostly linear algebra and hype; the honest play is a single "quantum literacy" module using free tooling (IBM Qiskit / Q-12 education resources) plus one advisory-group briefing per year on whether the timeline has moved.
Biotech/synthetic biology, space systems, energy/grid, advanced manufacturing, AR/spatial computing — monitor via the advisory group; add modules opportunistically when a partner or faculty champion appears.
Drones/UAS — cheap, exciting, free FAA TRUST certification for students; bridges robotics → autonomy → careers. Ties directly to the co-curricular concepts in §6.
Infusion in practice — illustrative examples by department
Anchored to actual courses in the current Curriculum Guide; each is a unit or recurring practice inside an existing course — zero new credit slots consumed.
Department
Illustrative infusion
English
Adversarial critique of AI-written essays; prompt construction as applied rhetoric.
Theology
Magnifica Humanitas & Antiqua et Nova as primary texts; algorithmic-bias cases through Catholic Social Teaching.
Accounting/Business
Manual vs. AI-agent close — grade the auditing of machine work; tokenized-assets unit; real estate development-finance unit.