Victory University 2012-2013 Academic Catalog

General Electives
TOTAL 120 SEMESTER HOURS
24-27 semester hours
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN LIBERAL STUDIES - (NO MINOR REQUIRED)
DEGREE AVAILABLE ON CAMPUS AND ONLINE
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
120 SEMESTER HOURS
The Liberal Studies Major at Victory University offers a program of study grounded in traditional
liberal arts with an interdisciplinary approach. There are various options from which students
may choose depending upon their academic or vocational aims. All Liberal Studies majors take
a required major core of thirty (30) semester hours in four (4) humanities disciplines plus a set
of courses designed to aid the student in understanding the inter-relationship of these
disciplines. Beyond this, students must choose a specialization depending upon their academic
or vocational aims.
The purpose of the Liberal Studies major is to provide the student a concentrated exposure in a
field of study housed in traditional humanities. Currently, emphases include History and
English.
As a result of study in this program, students will:
• Possess knowledge in the humanities disciplines of rhetoric, literature, history, and art
history.
• Identify and critically analyze different artistic and intellectual forms from various
historical periods.
• Identify and critically analyze artistic and intellectual forms from different religions.
• Describe and apply interdisciplinary knowledge and interdisciplinary methods of
investigation to questions in humanities.
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
120 SEMESTER HOURS
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