Such a program will enable students to gain understanding of the fundamental ideas which cross a broad range of disciplines. The program is further designed to provide students with a perspective that focuses on the unchanging human values in an ever-changing world. The liberal studies degree provides a broad program of study which is good career preparation since it is designed to prepare people to be creative, to think, and to adapt. The professional world is volatile and uncertain and a broad education is good insurance against possible obsolescence of job skills obtained in a much narrower program of study. What many employers value most is a person's ability to learn to communicate and think.
Liberal studies provide the student with a future, which includes career mobility.
Formal admission to the program. A portfolio of work satisfactory to the program director. Satisfactory completion of HUM 201, REL 372, HIS 317, SPE 332, PSY 231, and HUM 451. Rather than choose a sixth area as an elective area, students may also select nine credit hours in one of the previously listed areas in order to qualify for a minor or second major in that area. Satisfaction of the institutional baccalaureate requirements specified in the academic policy section of the current catalog.