Liberal Studies, B.A.

Learning Goals and Student Learning Outcomes

The following goals and learning outcomes have been established for students pursuing a degree in Liberal Studies:

Knowledge

  • Attain a comprehensive understanding of significant concepts, themes and figures in the three general subject areas covered by the major: the arts and humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences.

Interdisciplinarity

  • Recognize historical and contemporary interdisciplinary connections among the three subject areas and synthesize parallel developments within them.
  • Develop a comprehensively interdisciplinary perspective toward knowledge.

Critical Analysis

  • Analyze, evaluate, and apply significant concepts, themes and arguments from the three general subject areas of Liberal Studies.

Effective Oral and Written Communication

  • Write clearly and correctly.
  • Analyze and present ideas and subject matter coherently.