BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
LIBERAL STUDIES

General Information

Goals and Objectives

Degree Requirements

Courses

GENERAL INFORMATION

Academic Adviser: Elisa Linsky and Jim Lewis

Liberal Studies is an interdisciplinary liberal arts degree that emphasizes the place of technology in world civilization and provides students interested in science and technology to pursue a practical degree program with greater breadth and flexibility than is possible in an engineering degree. Working closely with academic advisers, students develop majors or concentrations that reflect their interests and career goals.

The core of the Liberal Studies Program is a series of seminars that look at technology from different perspectives— history, the arts, cultural studies, politics, philosophy and literature. Students focus on a concentration of their choice and combine traditional liberals arts learning with technologically focused career education.

The BS in Liberal Studies degree is offered by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. All students must complete an interdisciplinary liberal arts major which includes a core concentration in one of the following focus areas:

All students can choose, with the consultation of an academic adviser, a second major or professional concentration in almost any field represented in the entire Polytechnic curriculum. In addition to the above areas it is possible to concentrate in the following areas of study:

For more information, please contact Elisa Linsky or Jim Lewis .