Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies (LAIS)
For the creative students of CSF, the liberal arts are often the muse that inspires their work. Knowledge of the subjects taught in the humanities and the natural and social sciences allow a student to live an intellectual, creative, spiritual and ethical life.
It is not unusual for CSF students who come for the arts to be so motivated by a politics, psychology or science course that they decide to add one of these areas as a minor and even go on to graduate study in one of those areas.
The Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies Department (LAIS) comprises the Liberal Arts core curriculum, academic electives, and minors in the liberal arts. LAIS offers courses in psychology, politics, history, economics, cultural studies, religion studies, philosophy and science. Additional courses in ethical responsibility and cultural diversity that satisfy part of the core requirements are offered both through LAIS and the creative arts departments.
Liberal Arts Core Education
The Core includes courses in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.
All first -year students take the Liberal Arts Seminar (an interdisciplinary course based in the liberal arts), two topic-driven writing seminars, and the first of three distributive courses from the three areas.
In the second year, students take a Sophomore Roundtable (another liberal arts interdisciplinary course), and the last two of the distributive courses.
During the junior year students take one course covering ethical responsibility and another that includes cultural diversity. To view the current offerings in Liberal Arts seminars (insert link), Writing Seminars (link) and Sophomore Roundtables (link).
The Liberal Arts Core Curriculum educates students to:
- Think critically; communicate effectively
- Understand various methods of inquiry and the tools and resources available in various disciplines
- Recognize the ethical dimensions of persons and societies
- Construct a personal philosophy as well as a community and professional ethic
- Appreciate the diversity and the commonality of cultures within the interdependent global community.
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