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BACHELOR OF ARTS: LIBERAL STUDIES

This program allows students to choose from as many as six academic areas within the humanities (art, communications, economics, English, modern foreign languages, geography, history, humanities, literature, music, political science, religion, and theatre) and behavioral and social sciences to form a broad-ranging interdisciplinary degree. It requires students to fulfill all the requirements for a bachelor's degree in interdiscsiplinary studies and 62 credit hours distributed according to the following area requirements (the credit hours are in addition to those used to fulfill general education requirements):

  1. Religion: 8 credit hours are required, including REL 371 - Christian Ethics (3 credit hours) and REL 372 - Philosophy of Religion (3 credit hours)
  2. History: 8 credit hours are required, including HIS 317 - Contemporary American History (3 credit hours)
  3. Literature: 8 credit hours are required, and at least one course must be an upper-level course
  4. Fine arts and communications: 8 credit hours are required, including at least one upper-level communications (COM) course
  5. Behavioral and social sciences: 8 credit hours are required, including PSY 231 - General Psychology (3 credit hours) and at least one upper-level course
  6. 8 hours in an elective area chosen in consultation with the advisor. Alternatively, students may take 8 additional credit hours in one of the previously listed five areas.
  7. Complete 6 credit hours in a single foreign language or 6 additional hours in one of the areas (including teh elective area) listed above.
  8. Complete the following 8 credit hours:
    ENG 333 - Professional Writing (3 credit hours)
    HUM 451 - Senior Seminar (2 credit hours)
    HUM 489 - Humanities Practicium (for at least 3 credit hours)




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