LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 379.
TEXT 2.1. THE ACADEMIC PROGRAM AT
| TERMS AND DEFINITIONS | AT LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE |
| The curriculum is organized within four traditional academic DIVISIONS and a fifth interdisciplinary division. | Fine Arts Humanities Natural Sciences Social Sciences Other (Interdisciplinary). |
| A DISCIPLINE is a traditional area of academic study. Parentheses show that some related disciplines are grouped together into DEPARTMENTS for administrative purposes. | FINE ARTS: (Art History and Studio Art); (Dance and Drama); Music. HUMANITIES: (Classics, including Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Sanskrit); English; (Modern Languages and Literatures, including Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish); Philosophy; Religion. NATURAL SCIENCES: Biology; Chemistry; Mathematics; Physics, Psychology. SOCIAL SCIENCES: (Anthropology and Sociology); Economics; History; Political Science. |
| INTERDISCIPLINARY programs are those that draw from two or more of the traditional disciplines. For example, Asian Studies draws from the faculties of Anthropology, History, Modern Languages, Philosophy, and Religion. | African and African- American Studies American Studies Asian Studies Biochemistry Environmental Studies Integrated Program in Humane Studies Law and Society Molecular Biology Neuroscience Women's and Gender Studies. |
| MAJOR: All students must complete a minimum of one major course of study in either a traditional discipline or in interdisciplinary program. | All departments offer one or more major courses of study. There are currently three interdisciplinary majors: Biochemistry International Studies Molecular Biology. |
| A SYNOPTIC MAJOR is a course of study devised by an individual student in consultation with faculty advisors. | Synoptic majors are typically interdisciplinary in nature. Some recent examples are Behavioral Physics; Cultural Ecology; American Diplomacy; Cross-Cultural Women's Studies; and Art, Gender, and Society in Japan. |
| Students may elect to undertake a MINOR course of study if they choose. | Minor courses of study are offered by the departments of Anthropology and Sociology, Art, Biology, Classics, Dance and Drama, Math, Modern Languages and Literature, Philosophy, Physics. |
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