The
Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College offers
a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal
Arts and Sciences. The B.A. program is
designed to develop the qualities of
a free and responsible citizen, one who
can reason clearly, read critically and
analytically, argue persuasively in speech
and in writing, and contribute to society
in fundamental and innovative ways. Students
receive broad intellectual training in
the liberal arts and sciences and also
specialized training in an area of concentration.
Students may pursue a traditional concentration,
or major area of study, or they may design
their own under the guidance of faculty.
The architecture of a traditional college
curriculum, in which knowledge is broken
into highly specific fields, disciplines,
and departments, gives the misleading
impression that human experience and
human problems are neatly compartmentalized
and that there is a clear division of
labor, each discipline being assigned
its own subset of these problems and
experiences. To help convey to students
that knowledge and experience are not
so easily partitioned, and that many
problems benefit from multiple perspectives,
the Honors College Curriculum includes
a unique offering of courses and team-taught
seminars devoted to interdisciplinary
inquiry. A list of team-taught courses we have offered is online (in pdf).
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