Liberal Studies Introduction

The Liberal Studies program is offered through the College of Arts & Sciences and the School of Education's Curriculum & Instruction department. The program includes English literature, fine arts, humanities, math and science, social sciences, and education courses.

1. Critical Analysis: Students will learn strategies in critical reading, thinking, and writing, demonstrating proficiency in areas that facilitate engagement with complex ideas and problems, the questioning of bias and/or assumption, the exploration of perspectives, and the acknowledgment of complexity.
2. Oral Presentation Skills: students will transmit their own critical work verbally with clarity, accuracy, & conviction.
3. Engagement with Diversity: students will become familiar with and sensitive to issues of diversity by engaging issues of race, ethnicity, class, and gender.
4. Disciplinary Proficiency: students will develop disciplinary proficiency through required departmental academic assignments and projects.
5. Research Methodology: students will demonstrate a grasp of disciplinary-based research methodologies – both quantitative and qualitative.
6. Religious/Moral/Ethical Values: students will develop an awareness of and engagement with the important religious, moral, and ethical issues of the past and present.