The Liberal Arts Enrichment program provides all Eastern Students with a common experience through course work involving significant interdisciplinary issues that concern all educated persons and citizens. The goal of the program is to further prepare our graduates with the knowledge, skills, and values that college graduates and citizens will need in the 21st century. The course themes require students to draw upon and synthesize what they have acquired in their lower-division course work and to integrate multiple disciplinary perspectives. It is a course that connects students' academic skills and research to significant problems or issues.
Capstone courses are normally interdisciplinary and applications-oriented.
They provide opportunities for students to work together in small problem-solving groups. Each group produces a report, a policy statement, or an artistic product. Writing is a component of all courses found in the general education program. Quantitative skills are developed and reinforced in all appropriate general education courses. Active learning and critical thinking are implemented throughout the curriculum.