Mission Statement
The Liberal Studies Program serves as a model of interdisciplinary study that fosters student inquiry and learning using a breadth of intellectual approaches and knowledge to enable students to critically engage with our diverse and complex world and meaningfully contribute, with intention, to the public good.
Program Learning Outcomes
PLO 1: Reasoning
Engage and show proficiency and competency in various types of reasoning practices that result in both internal and external reflection. These reasoning practices should include: Critical thinking: Analysis, Quantitative, Qualitative and Abstract Reasoning; Computational Processes, Assessment, and Evaluation
PLO 2: Artistic Expression
Display an appreciation of and participation in creative, performing, and visual artistic pursuits in order to develop an aesthetic awareness and a sense of artistic and intellectual property to include a public performance, exhibition, publication, or broadcast.
PLO 3: Community Engagement, Leadership, and Service Learning
Demonstrate a desire to effect positive social change through enacted leadership and advocacy by way of community engagement, service learning, and the practice of compassionate emotional intelligence as an intellectually independent and accountable professional who embodies the practice of responsibility for participation for lifelong learning.
PLO 4: Communication
Display the ability to articulate and effectively connect across multiple audiences while justifying perspectives with sensitivity and awareness through verbal, non-verbal, written, non-written, digital, and other multimodal communicative approaches.
PLO 5: Professionalization
Preparation to include the creation and demonstration of innovative lesson plans, where appropriate, along with a completed resume, curriculum vitae, letters of interest, cover letters, and letters of recommendation. Professionalization preparation is also to include participation in an international/multicultural immersion experience and verified examples of leadership, service, and collaborative endeavors.
PLO 6: Applied Knowledge/Theory and Practice/Research
Demonstrate the ability to conduct meaningful research with competency and proficiency while utilizing properly cited critical and information literacies that result in synthesis of process, creative problem solving, and the ability to move between discipline specific, trans/interdisciplinary, integrative, and collaborative approaches.
PLO 7: Diversity
Understand the value of and contribute to an understanding of the vitality, advancement, and conservation of our culturally, linguistically, socioeconomically, and geographically diverse, yet, globally connected society.