BACHELOR OF ARTS IN LIBERAL STUDIES

The Liberal Studies major allows students freedom to explore and integrate courses from the perspective of a cosmology for the present age. A faculty mentor will help students plan an individualized Liberal Studies curriculum. Students present a final written project as part of the requirement for LST 401. The Program Director for Liberal Studies and Philosophy chairs the Liberal Studies Committee. Students in the program are expected to meet the following outcomes:                                                                                                                                     
1. To understand broadly the intellectual history of Western culture through course work in the liberal arts disciplines as they relate to the skills and foundational principles of these academic areas and those specifically identified for the degree recipient;
2. To develop a deep personal awareness of the need to explore for their personal life-paths the practical and transformative implications of all that they have learned.                                                                                                         
During the graduation term each Liberal Studies major, under the guidance of the Liberal Studies Program Director and based upon the final project for the Senior Colloquium (LST-401), prepares a list of the courses used to complete major requirements. Each list entry includes a brief annotation indicating how the course contributed to understanding the intellectual history of Western culture and to developing awareness of the practical implications of the major as a whole.                                                                                                                                   
For more information on the Program, contact the Director of Liberal Studies and Philosophy Programs, Dr. Joe Holland, by phone at 305.628.6637 or by email at jholland@stu.edu

BACHELOR OF ARTS IN LIBERAL STUDIES
with a specialization in
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP & PHILOSOPHY

The LIBERAL STUDIES / GLOBAL LEADERSHIP & PHILOSOPHY PROGRAM is a specialization within the Liberal Studies Major. Designed for motivated students who aspire to become ecologically, socially, and spiritually conscious leaders formed in a global perspective, the Program includes Liberal Studies and Philosophy courses and is guided by the Aristotelian tradition as developed within Catholic Social-Ecological Thought. Students in the program are encouraged to take a second major, or one or more minors, in their potential future career area. By means of two majors or this major and one or more minors, the Program gives students a deep and well rounded preparation for future graduate studies in one of a wide range of career areas, including Business, Communications, Criminal Justice, Education, History, Humanities, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Theology, etc. There is also an Honors option for this specialization. Upon completion of the Program, students receive a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Liberal Studies with a Specialization in Global Leadership and Philosophy.
Students in this program are invited to become members of the Pax Romana Global Leadership Student Society at St. Thomas University, which is affiliated with the worldwide movement of university students, professionals, and intellectuals know as Pax Romana, a United Nations affiliated NGO (non-governmental organization) with the highest level consultative status. Through this Society, students form a closely knit learning-community and participate in internships at the United Nations in New York and at the Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center in Tennessee.
.Students in the program are expected to meet the following outcomes:                                                                               
1. To understand broadly the intellectual history of Western philosophy through the primal, classical, modern, and now postmodern eras of the human journey, and to do so in a global framework;
2. To understand with special depth the interrelated ecological, social, and spiritual breakdown of the modern Western-reductionist mechanistic cosmology and the breakthrough of a postmodern holistic-ecological cosmology;
3. To understand the integrated ecological, social, and spiritual ethics of the still developing Catholic intellectual tradition for the emerging global civilization of the electronic era; and
4. To have developed a deep personal awareness of the need to explore for their personal life-paths the practical and transformative implications of all that they have learned.

For more information on the Program, contact the Director of Liberal Studies and Philosophy Programs, Dr. Joe Holland, by phone at 305.628.6637 or by email at jholland@stu.edu