The Curriculum

The BLS program offers three years of in-depth classroom exploration of a variety of general or liberal studies modules. The curriculum is based on three broad areas of study, each one academic year in length.

The first year, students take Writing 104 concurrently with "The Individual Within," which combines religion, psychology, philosophy and history to focus on how the individual grows and develops.

The second year, Sociology 235 is taken and Communications 355 concurrently with "The Individual and Society," which relates sociology, anthropology, ecology, economics and business to the exploration of how the individual relates to others and to social institutions.

In the final year, "The Creative Individual" examines the ways the individual expresses thoughts and feelings through music, art, drama, literature, communications and technology.

In addition, each student plans and develops an integrated project. The integrated project engages the student in the scientific method: that of identifying a problem, determining methods of research to solve the problem, performing the research and documenting the results. The courses, along with an integrated project, Bachelor of Liberal Studies 420, 430 and 440, comprise the formal curriculum of the Bachelor of Liberal Studies degree program.