Liberal Studies provides the broad vision and understanding that enable individuals to enjoy full, rich lives and to play constructive roles in their communities.
The goals for Liberal Studies include:
- the development of important modes of thinking and intellectual skills: critical thinking, literacy, understanding numerical data, historical consciousness, scientific inquiry, ethical perception, and aesthetic sensitivity
- the acquisition of a body of knowledge or understanding essential to an educated person
- an understanding of the physical, as well as the intellectual, nature of human beings
