Liberal Studies
Design your own major with UWEC's liberal studies bachelor's degree. Select classes based on your own interests, professional goals, and scholarly objectives.
Design Your Degree
This interdisciplinary offering allows you to select classes based on your own interests and scholarly objectives and provides an opportunity to study a greater breadth of topics than what is possible when majoring in a specific disciplinary area. The program is an excellent choice for students who have an exact career or professional goal in mind, have multiple academic interests, are transferring to UWEC or are nontraditional.
Our liberal studies students have created some pretty incredible degrees. From studying global sustainability to social entrepreneurship to childhood development, creative productions, health, and organizational development and strategic planning — Blugolds are taking their passions and finding ways to make the world a better, brighter place. Are you ready to join them?
Program Details
As a liberal studies major, you'll choose your courses based on a primary academic theme as well as three interdisciplinary areas of concentration, with courses that explore the primary theme. This structure allows you to connect several areas of academic interest that are not located in any single discipline or major, providing you with a truly specific and customized degree.
Dig deeper into your passion by researching unexplored topics. Through the liberal studies capstone course, you'll have the opportunity to conduct research that directly applies to your designed major. Previous students have studied topics like the value of introducing computer science at the elementary level, the application and effects of art therapy for dementia patients, and the relationship between urban green-space access and health.
Liberal studies majors have the unique opportunity to benefit from coursework and learning opportunities from multiple departments across the university. Surrounded by professors and students from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, you'll explore new perspectives, interests, and ways of thinking — all while building an educational experience that is highly relevant to your professional and personal goals.
Blugold Stories
What I love about liberal studies is the richness of interdisciplinary studies. The drama in sociology, the science in theater — just the cross-pollination of ideas is really important because that lends itself to maybe an understanding of other cultures, the complexity of life and that things aren’t so black and white.
The liberal studies program is an outlet for you to cultivate your passions. Courses always invite relevant and engaging discussions and the advisors brought insight and experience as they helped me craft my major. I felt as though I were part of a team, where all of us worked together to create meaningful educational experiences.
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Where can the liberal studies program lead me after graduation?
There are no limits with a bachelor's degree in liberal studies. Having the flexibility to select courses that align with each of your goals will give you a competitive advantage in your strongest areas of interest. And since you designed your own major, your future is in your hands.
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Liberal studies courses emphasize open discussion and project-based learning and are taught in a seminar format. Coursework focuses on the theories of academic learning, cross-disciplinary connections, and professional and personal growth. A capstone course will round out your studies and allow you to develop and complete a unique, high-value project in your chosen area of concentration.
Here are a few courses in Liberal Studies at UW-Eau Claire.
LS 201
Introductory Liberal Studies Seminar
Addresses basic premises of liberal education and liberal studies, including historical exploration of the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences as interrelated, mutually enriching human enterprises. Introduces the research and creative methodologies used in these fields.
LS 301
Liberal Studies Research Seminar
Advanced study of research and creative methodologies used in the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. Examines methodological similarities to enhance understanding of the common underpinnings that define liberal studies and human inquiry as well as differences in rhetorical strategies, questions asked, and tools used.
LS 480
Liberal Studies Capstone Seminar
Culminating experience of the Liberal Studies Major. Focuses on critical inquiry in and complex interactions between the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. Completion of a semester-long project related to the theme of the major.
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