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The Liberal Arts Major

The Liberal Arts Major | Degree Requirements | Back to Department List

Degrees Offered
Bachelor of Arts

Cross Divisional Program

General Education Philosophy and Objectives
The goal of General Education at Eastern Nazarene College is to educate students in the context of a Christian understanding of the human experience. Our approach to General Education is founded on our view of God as the ultimate patron of honest exploration, human creativity and dedicated service. We view the world as God’s creation and humans as created in the image of God as revealed in Jesus Christ. Our highest goal is to glorify God, which we do by worshipping Him, seeking to understand His creation and serving others. We believe the Holy Spirit offers a good future to the world, enabling and commissioning us to participate in His transforming work. In these ways, the Christian perspective which informs our General Education goals is Wesleyan.

ENC’s General Education Program is designed to assist students in the lifelong process of formulating, refining and articulating their worldviews in the light of the Christian tradition, the Western heritage, and the current cultural setting. We pursue this goal by offering a curriculum that is designed to achieve the following objectives.

  1. To instill in students an appreciation for a God-given coherence and meaning to life.
  2. To assist students in the development of their physical, intellectual, spiritual and aesthetic sensitivities and abilities.
  3. To develop the critical thinking and analytical, creative and expressive skills for articulate reflection and effective communication.
  4. To provide students with a broad base of general knowledge about the personalities, ideas and movements that have shaped the contemporary world.
  5. To introduce students to the interrelationships among the arts, the sciences, aesthetics, morality, historical place and meaning, social existence and religious faith.
  6. To foster students’ understanding and appreciation of cultures or languages other than their own.
  7. To cultivate a love of learning that serves students throughout their lives.
  8. To equip and motivate students with the scriptural and theological resources needed to engage their culture as Spirit-guided messengers of hope and redemption.
All students are required to complete the Liberal Arts Core as part of the their liberal art education. Some majors require specific courses to fulfill the General Education requirements. Students should consult the department degree requirements for their chosen major to determine specific requirements.

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Degree Requirements

In addition to the Liberal Arts Core curriculum, a minimum of ten courses (36 credit hours) is required. The student seeking a Liberal Arts major must take the following:

  1. 5 courses above the introductory level in any of the following Liberal Arts and Sciences disciplines: Biology, Chemistry, Communication Arts, English, History, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology, Religion, and Sociology. The student must be aware that there may be prerequisite course requirements in a particular discipline that are required to be taken before a student is allowed to take courses above the introductory level to satisfy the Liberal Arts and Sciences major. The student must determine the particular route to follow in close consultation with an advisor.
  2. An American literature course
  3. G0210 American Political Institutions
  4. GO220 World Political Geography
  5. HI205 The American Experience
  6. BA231 Principles of Economics I
  7. A math course above 100 level
  8. A lab science course either in the biological sciences or the physical sciences


Students may not use practicums to meet the requirements of this major.

In order to meet the comprehensive exam requirement for graduation, students seeking the Liberal Arts major must do one of the following exam:

  1. Students seeking education certification may take either the PRAXIS II General Knowledge Exam or the Massachusetts State Teacher Exam in their content area. The exam must be taken the semester prior to graduation.
  2. Students seeking only a Liberal Arts major must take the PRAXIS II Content Knowledge Exam as their comprehensive exam. It must be taken the semester prior to graduation.  Information about either exam may be obtained from the Division of Teacher Education
    office.

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The Liberal Arts Program
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Quincy, Massachusetts 02170