the liberal studies degree offers an interdisciplinary approach to a well-rounded education which emphasizes reading, reasoning, and communication skills in addition to substantive knowledge that will allow graduates to thrive in a broad range of career contexts and to pursue life-long learning. 

all students are required to choose one of three program options, either the quaternity option (also available online) which offers the more traditional broad-based liberal arts education, or a cross-disciplinary cluster of thematically related courses (option ii), which currently includes the environmental studies and the global and multicultural studies options. courses that are used to satisfy one degree requirement cannot be used to satisfy another. students must complete a minimum of 45 credits in the program after declaring themselves to be liberal studies majors.