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Hastings College

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Liberal Arts Program

Students who are not on the Personalized Program must complete the Liberal Arts Program, including at least one recognized major field and a series of general education requirements. The primary goal of the Liberal Arts Program at Hastings College is to stimulate intellectual curiosity and excitement essential to life-long learning. Specifically, the goals propose to develop in students:
  1. an understanding of the ways of inquiry and the organization of knowledge which characterize the different academic disciplines.
  2. an awareness of connections among the different academic disciplines which integrate knowledge.
  3. an ability to communicate effectively through listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
  4. an ability to think creatively, critically, logically, and independently.
  5. an experience and appreciation of the diversity of cultures in the United States and the world.
  6. an ability to make good and moral judgments, judgments made consciously and defensibly.
  7. a sense of personal responsibility for the cultivation of habits essential to life-long learning, physical fitness, and optimum health.