This is a question often asked by new students who aren't quite sure of their liberal studies requirements and how they benefit their individual field of study. Liberal studies will help you to learn and use knowledge efficiently. Through the English requirements of this program, you develop critical thinking and literacy skills that benefit the study of your major, from art history to biochemistry. Critical thinking enables you to ask questions, reason logically and abstractly, to analyze something critically, and to make better, more thoughtful decisions.
Literacy consists of reading, writing, speaking, and listening effectively.
English liberal studies enhance and develop these skills so that you can put them to the utmost use in your major courses. It is sixty percent of your overall grade. You'll thank your lucky stars that you learned the MLA citing techniques along with how to get around the library in your research writing course three or four semesters ago. It is suggested that you follow the sequencing of courses in the order that they are presented in this booklet. As with anything, there are a few quirks that may or may not concern you.