• Learn to engage in reasoned thinking.
• Maintain open, inquiring, and skeptical minds.
• Develop a thirst for continuing education, and know how to access and evaluate information.
• Develop cultural sensitivity and tolerance for cultural differences.
• Acquire environmental awareness, and take responsibility for their thinking, actions, and impact on the world.
• Establish a foundation for understanding social issues.
Students graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies will
1. Have acquired a breadth of knowledge across the range of disciplines included in the major: Language Arts, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, History and Social Sciences, Visual and Performing Arts, and Health and Physical Education;
2. Demonstrate greater depth of knowledge in their selected “depth of study”;
3. Understand how knowledge across multiple disciplines can be connected;
4. Formulate their own goals for continued learning and inquiry based on a foundation of intellectual curiosity;
5. Understand and appreciate the positive value and essential role of diversity;
6. Think critically and creatively;
7. Write and speak clearly, coherently, and thoughtfully;
8. Read, understand, and evaluate all forms of text; and
9. Be familiar with technologies appropriate to the research and dissemination of knowledge.
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