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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:
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:
- an understanding of the ways of inquiry and the organization of knowledge which characterize the different academic disciplines.
- an awareness of connections among the different academic disciplines which integrate knowledge.
- an ability to communicate effectively through listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
- an ability to think creatively, critically, logically, and independently.
- an experience and appreciation of the diversity of cultures in the United States and the world.
- an ability to make good and moral judgments, judgments made consciously and defensibly.
- a sense of personal responsibility for the cultivation of habits essential to life-long learning, physical fitness, and optimum health.
