LIBERAL ARTS AT EMERSON
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While each major program at Emerson engages the liberal arts in a manner appropriate to its discipline(s), there is also a distinct Liberal Arts curriculum — Foundations, Perspectives, and Minors — in which all students engage.
FOUNDATIONS: FIRST-YEAR CURRICULUM
The Foundations curriculum introduces first-year Emerson students to the intellectual life of the academy and its responsibilities to the wider world. Courses cultivate habits of thought, methods of inquiry, and means of presentation to prepare students for a successful academic career. They will be ready to engage in discussions about the academic, professional, and public issues they will encounter in their undergraduate education and beyond.
PERSPECTIVES: BREADTH CURRICULUM
The Perspectives curriculum helps students discover a variety of liberal arts disciplines beyond their major. Through exposure to liberal arts traditions, they will understand the kinds of questions and methods explored by these knowledge communities. Students are given flexibility to choose individual courses that interest and challenge them, and build clusters of courses that promise the greatest degree of integration with their major.