Liberal Arts and Sciences, BA
The liberal arts major offers a broad and challenging course of study in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Emphasizing a multidisciplinary approach to learning, the program encourages the student to seek a full, creative, and satisfying expression of his or her individual talents and abilities.
Through close work with an advisor, each student develops an individualized program of study. Students should contact their advisors each semester for assistance with course selection, program planning, and graduation requirements.
Availability
This program is available at the Salt Lake Education Center via the following Instruction Type(s):
Courses are delivered via state of the art video conferencing technology. Students meet at a designated time and location.
Admissions
Students must be admitted to Utah State University. They are also required to meet with a liberal arts advisor to explore the major before being admitted to or declaring the liberal arts major. For admissions requirements and information, or to complete an online application, visit www.usu.edu/admissions/applyonline.
Requirements
A Bachelor of Arts in liberal arts requires proficiency in one or more foreign languages or American Sign Language. This requirement cannot be met through USU Regional Campus and Distance Education courses and must be completed either at the Logan campus or through another college or university.
The liberal arts major consists of four learning goals, each requiring a minimum of 9 credits, for a total of 36 credits. Students plan a multidisciplinary academic program providing a focus for study with emphases in humanities, arts, and social sciences.
GOALS
Goal 1– To acquire an understanding of the historical and cultural traditions of Western or other civilizations or both.
Goal 2 – To develop an understanding of social and legal institutions.
Goal 3 – To develop and strengthen an appreciation of the arts and literature. Courses selected must be theory or history based, not skill based.
Goal 4 – To promote habits of critical, reasonable, and ethical inquiry, providing logical and intellectual integrity in seeking truths.
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The Liberal Arts Major offers a broad and challenging course of study in the humanities, sciences, arts, and social sciences. Through a multi-disciplinary but coherent approach to learning, the program meets the needs of students majoring in professional fields, as well as those desiring a general background for adaptability and mobility in employment. The Liberal Arts Major offers USU students the training required to be competitive and to contribute effectively in the organizations, professions, and communities of the twenty-first century.
Courses:
Students must complete nine credits from at least two of the subjects under each learning goal. Courses from other areas may be approved by consulting with the academic advisor.
Goal 1 – Historical/Cultural Traditions
- Any History courses
- Any Folklore courses
- Any Anthropology courses
- Any Religious Studies courses
- World/Regional Geography courses
- Upper-division Language courses dealing with culture or civilization (This does not include grammar or conversation courses.)
Goal 2 – Social & Legal Institutions
- Any Sociology courses
- Any Political Science courses
- Any Family, Consumer, and Human Development courses
- Selected Economics courses
- Selected Psychology courses
- Selected Management and Human Resources courses
Goal 3 – Arts & Literature
- Selected Art courses
- Selected Theatre Arts courses
- Selected Music courses
- Literature (English or upper-division Foreign Language courses
- Selected Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning courses
- Selected Interior Design courses
Goal 4 – Critical Thinking & Ethics
- Any Philosophy courses
- Any departmental Ethics courses
- Upper-division Speech courses dealing with persuasion, debate, infl uence, and argumentation.
- A Statistics or Methods course must be taken if not taken as part of the university studies quantitative literacy requirements.
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